Saving Afghanistan
Last fall, I returned from a six-month deployment to Iraq with the Navy, in which I worked as a tribal and leadership engagement officer in the Fallujah area. By the end of my deployment, Fallujah had changed from an area rife with al-Qaida’s presence and upward of 750 security incidents a...
Essay
By Derek Ruths - “A botnet is a geographically distributed group of computers, individually called zombies, which mindlessly perform instructions provided by a single computer called the command-control. In the past, botnets have been leveraged with great success by spammers: The command-control...”
DARTS & LAURELS
Four-star hopeTO CONGRESS for passing legislation that makes the head of the National Guard Bureau a four-star. For too many years, the Guard Bureau’s voice has not been equal to its contribution...
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Army Maj. David Bigelow responds to continuing debate on Barry Fagin and Lt. Col. James Parco’s article “A Question of Faith,” January AFJ
Army Maj. David Bigelow responds to continuing debate on Barry Fagin and Lt. Col. James Parco’s article “A Question of Faith,” January AFJ
COMMENTARY
Perspectives
Ralph Peters
If our troops shot as wildly as our politicians and bureaucrats fire off words, we’d never win a single firefight. The inaccurate terminology tossed about by presidents and pundits alike obscures the nature of the threats we face, the character of our enemies and the inadequacies of our...
Ralph Peters
If our troops shot as wildly as our politicians and bureaucrats fire off words, we’d never win a single firefight. The inaccurate terminology tossed about by presidents and pundits alike obscures the nature of the threats we face, the character of our enemies and the inadequacies of our...
Perspectives
GENE E. MYERS
All doctrines are subject to interpretation in light of the situation a commander faces and must be capable of reinvention as the situation requires. But doctrines are also prescriptive in that there must be some basic elements common to all.
GENE E. MYERS
All doctrines are subject to interpretation in light of the situation a commander faces and must be capable of reinvention as the situation requires. But doctrines are also prescriptive in that there must be some basic elements common to all.
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Helof a mess
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