April 2007 Issue
Sea Power
As the Navy fine-tunes its new maritime strategy, scheduled for public release this summer, the temptation is to make Sea Power 21 its foundation. But Naval War College professor Milan Vego...
As the Navy fine-tunes its new maritime strategy, scheduled for public release this summer, the temptation is to make Sea Power 21 its foundation. But Naval War College professor Milan Vego...
Searching for a strategy
The very core of the Navy’s transformation is Sea Power 21. The Navy is making a major effort to create a new maritime strategy, to be formally completed in June. Perhaps it is also...
BY MILAN VEGO
The very core of the Navy’s transformation is Sea Power 21. The Navy is making a major effort to create a new maritime strategy, to be formally completed in June. Perhaps it is also...
BY MILAN VEGO
Joint architecture for unmanned systems will commonize the fields to bring standards as close together as possible. In the near term, we’re all working to harmonize as much as we can.”
Webster’s says you can communalize, but you can’t commonize.
— DYKE WEATHERINGTON, UNDERSECRETARY OF DEFENSE FOR ACQUISITION
Webster’s says you can communalize, but you can’t commonize.
— DYKE WEATHERINGTON, UNDERSECRETARY OF DEFENSE FOR ACQUISITION
One of the perennial difficulties of evaluating military operations lies in finding useful metrics of success by which to judge the effort. This is especially so in a battle for the hearts...
By Christopher Griffin
Why the military can’t do it all
Our nation was founded on the principle of civilian control of the military, but an imbalance has developed that tends to overemphasize military capabilities as instruments of national...
BY MAJ. TIMOTHY T. TENNE
Our nation was founded on the principle of civilian control of the military, but an imbalance has developed that tends to overemphasize military capabilities as instruments of national...
BY MAJ. TIMOTHY T. TENNE
Wanted: occupation doctrine
Together, the Army and Marines shoulder the combat duties in Iraq, supported by the other services. But the primary burden of occupation has been borne by the Army — as it always will...
BY RALPH PETERS
Together, the Army and Marines shoulder the combat duties in Iraq, supported by the other services. But the primary burden of occupation has been borne by the Army — as it always will...
BY RALPH PETERS
A working plan
As the ice melts in the Hindu Kush mountains this year, all parties know that the informal truce forced by winter is being lifted and the intense fights of 2006 will soon start again. A key...
BY CHRISTOPHER GRIFFIN
As the ice melts in the Hindu Kush mountains this year, all parties know that the informal truce forced by winter is being lifted and the intense fights of 2006 will soon start again. A key...
BY CHRISTOPHER GRIFFIN
Mind maneuvers
T. E. Lawrence was not the first irregular warfare theorist, but he was the first practitioner to note that the cognitive domain is crucial in such conflicts. In “Seven Pillars of...
BY FRANK G. HOFFMAN
T. E. Lawrence was not the first irregular warfare theorist, but he was the first practitioner to note that the cognitive domain is crucial in such conflicts. In “Seven Pillars of...
BY FRANK G. HOFFMAN
Own the blue water
“Partner in the brown water; secure the green water; own the blue water,” is a colorful new Navy mantra. It refers to the need to work closely with other nations to...
By Edward Lundquist
“Partner in the brown water; secure the green water; own the blue water,” is a colorful new Navy mantra. It refers to the need to work closely with other nations to...
By Edward Lundquist
Blue beret
Irregular warfare is a nightmare. It is underhanded, vicious, cruel, thankless and interminable. Like the undead or those characters in sci-fi films that reconstitute themselves after being...
BY MARTIN N. MURPHY
Irregular warfare is a nightmare. It is underhanded, vicious, cruel, thankless and interminable. Like the undead or those characters in sci-fi films that reconstitute themselves after being...
BY MARTIN N. MURPHY
Iran emboldened
With the creeping possibility of a nuclear breakout, its vigorous sponsorship of international terrorism and its escalating intervention next door in Iraq, the Islamic Republic of Iran is a...
By Peter Brookes
With the creeping possibility of a nuclear breakout, its vigorous sponsorship of international terrorism and its escalating intervention next door in Iraq, the Islamic Republic of Iran is a...
By Peter Brookes
Reality check
God bless ralph Peters! Agree or no, his thought-provoking reality checks based on common sense and real history spark the discussions needed to get key leadership to actually, well, think.
God bless ralph Peters! Agree or no, his thought-provoking reality checks based on common sense and real history spark the discussions needed to get key leadership to actually, well, think.
In this issue
“We need to stop getting smaller,” Adm. Mike Mullen, chief of naval operations, said last year as he unveiled a plan to build a 313-ship fleet by 2020 that centers on 11 aircraft...
“We need to stop getting smaller,” Adm. Mike Mullen, chief of naval operations, said last year as he unveiled a plan to build a 313-ship fleet by 2020 that centers on 11 aircraft...
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