An Army Outgunned: Physics Demands a New Basic Combat Weapon. Joseph P. Avery, Ph.D.; Army, Marine Corps, and special operations forces M16s fire NATO 5.56x45 millimeter rounds over a half-century old. The services should adopt a more robust...
Empirically Based Leadership: Integrating the Science of Psychology in Building a Better Leadership Model. Major Sean P. McDonald, U.S. Army; Leadership doctrine has not fully incorporated critical empirical data into its leadership...
Waiting for Godot in Iraq. F.J. Bing West; As the war in Iraq enters a period of uncertainty, a highly regarded former Assistant Secretary of Defense addresses the four biggest challenges facing our military effort.
Partnership for the Americas: the human rights initiative. Admiral Jim Stavridis, U. S. Navy; Alexander T. Roney; and Leana Bresnahan; USSOUTHCOM is the only combatant command with a separate office charged to monitor and coordinate human rights...
Learning from our modern wars: the imperatives of preparing for a dangerous future. LT GEN Peter W. Chiarelli, U.S. Army, with MAJ Stephen M. Smith, U.S. Army; Looking beyond the current wars, a former commander of the 1st Cavalry Division and...
Full Spectrum Operations Winning the Peace: The Requirement for Full-Spectrum Operations. Major General Peter W. Chiarelli, U.S. Army, and Major Patrick R. Michaelis, U.S. Army; Task Force Baghdads campaign plan created the...
French Algeria and British Northern Ireland: Legitimacy and the Rule of Law in Low-Intensity Conflict. Lieutenant Colonel James D. Campbell, Maine Army National Guard; During the late 1950s, after a ruthless counterterrorism campaign in Algeria,...
Deconstructing army leadership. COL Christoper R. Paparone, U.S. Army; A deconstruction of the Army's theory of leadership, with its emphasis on hierarchy and management, reveals that the Army has based its theory on circular logic, improvable...
The Way Ahead. Chief of Staff of the Army General Peter J. Schoomaker and Major Anthony W. Vassalo, U.S. Army; Our Army is serving a Nation at war, so the way we approach our duties must reflect the seriousness of an Army at war. American soldiers...
A Joint Context for Training at the Combat Training Centers. Lieutenant General William S. Wallace, U.S. Army; Brigadier General Timothy D. Livsey, U.S. Army; and Lieutenant Colonel Richard A. Totleben, U.S. Army;...
Doctrine Center of Gravity Analysis. Colonel Dale C. Eikmeier, U.S. Army; Why are centers of gravity so difficult to identify or define? The Armed Forces have suffered from years of conflicting definitions. Not until 1997 did the services agree...
Force Projection Reach: Leveraging Time and Distance. Brigadier General John M. Custer, U.S. Army Putting Knowledge Reachback into Practice. Scott W. Lackey, Ph.D., 2003 Winning War a World Away. Colonel Jerry Johnson, U.S. Army, and...
The Battle of Taji and Battle Command on the Move. Lieutenant Colonel Edward J. Erickson, U.S. Army, Retired with Major General Raymond T. Odierno, U.S. Army; During the Battle of Taji on 16 April 2003, battle command in the 4th Infantry Division...
Surrendering the Initiative?: C2 on the Digitized Battlefield. Captain Jim Dunivan, U.S. Army; On the battlefield leaders make decisions in the midst of great uncertainty, demonstrating adaptability, independence, and creativity as they plan...
Learning Counterinsurgency: Observations from Soldering in Iraq Lieutenant General David H. Petraeus, U.S. Army The Army has gained a great deal of experience in Iraq and Afghanistan about COIN operations. Here, one of the Army's most experienced...
Battle Command Auftragstaktik and Innere Fuhrung: Trademarks of German Leadership. Major General Werner Widder, German Army Battle Command . Major General Russel L. Honore, U.S. Army Battle Command and Visualization. Lieutenant Colonel...
Special Operations Forces Integrating SOF into Joint Warfighting. Lieutenant Colonel Mark Jones, U.S. Army, and Lieutenant Colonel Wes Rehorn, U.S. Army SOF on the Contemporary Battlefield. Colonel Mike Findlay, U.S. Army; Lieutenant Colonel...
Learning to leverage new media: the Israeli defense forces in recent conflicts. Lieutenant General William B. Caldwell IV, U.S. Army; Mr. Dennis M. Murphy; and Mr. Anton Menning; The Army must learn to embrace lessons from the explosion of...