Army back issues from February 2006:
Letters
Feb 01, 2006; ... Kudos * The tribute to Maj. John Why te in CompanyCommand and the book review essay by Brig. Gen. John S. Brown Jr. made the December issue of ARMY worth the full year's subscription. Company Command Building Combat-Ready Teams Whoever originated the "Company ...
President Signs Defense Spending Bills
Feb 01, 2006; ... President George W. Bush signed into law the fiscal year (FY) 2006 defense appropriations and authorization bills on December 30 and January 6, respectively, after the U.S. Senate completed its work on December 21. The bills had been delayed after disagreements on efforts to include a prisoner ...
The American Professional Soldier
Feb 01, 2006; ... 50 Years Ago in ARMY The premier issue of ARMY in February 1956 focused on the education and professionalism of the soldier. The following excerpt, though dated in some respects, reminds us of the essential verities of the professional soldier. What is a profession and what is ...
Should Army Officers Write?
Feb 01, 2006; ... 50 Years Ago in ARMY: An Excerpt from an Article in the February 1956 ARMY We complain, with considerable justification, that "the American people don't understand us." Yet, who is more qualified to explain soldiering to the public than the soldier himself? The professional soldier has ...
Remedying An Unfortunate Lapse Of Memory
Feb 01, 2006; ... Washington papers in the past two weeks have made much of a newly issued Pentagon directive that, while welcome-indeed, overdue-is anything but the revolutionary policy their reporters seem to think it is. Approved on November 28th, the directive requires that "stability operations"-the ...
GUIDANCE FOR INCOMING COMMANDERS
Feb 01, 2006; ... I wrote this letter when I was the commander of the 82nd Airborne Division more than 25 years ago. It was presented to all incoming brigade and battalion commanders on the afternoon of the day they assumed command. Since then, soldiers are better educated (although I'd argue they're not any ...
The Army Reserve: Focus on the Future
Feb 01, 2006; ... In 1776 the American Army was engaged in the Revolutionary War against a major European army. We used strategy and tactics that were different from what our enemy was used to. We adapted our military force to the conditions that existed. In the following years, our revolutionary troops developed ...
GUARDING AMERICA: Issues Facing The Army National Guard At Home and Abroad
Feb 01, 2006; ... In August 2005, with more than 80,000 Army and Air Guard troops mobilized for the global war on terrorism, the governors of the Gulf Coast region called upon the National Guard-the nation's preeminent military domestic response force-in the face of a catastrophic hurricane. The Guard lived up to ...
THE ARMY'S VENTURE CAPITAL INITIATIVE
Feb 01, 2006; ... In 2001, Congress was seeking to initiate programs to improve the acquisition process within the Army and the other DoD services. One of the concepts under review was the establishment of an Army-focused venture capital fund. This concept was not new to the federal government, as the CIA had ...
Unattended Ground Sensors
Feb 01, 2006; ... The importance of battlefield intelligencegathering, analyzing and distributing operational, tactical and strategic military information-certainly is not a new notion. At the start of the American Revolution, one if by land and two if by sea signaled the coming of British troops. Civil War ...
A Joint and Interagency Effort: Task Force All American's Response to Hurricane Katrina
Feb 01, 2006; ... Hurricane Katrina is reported to have been the most catastrophic disaster in U.S. history, costing more than $18 billion to date with estimates for total reconstruction nearing $100 billion, virtually destroying an entire city and rendering nearly 250,000 of its residents homeless. In the days ...
AUSA Sustaining Member Profile: WestWind
Feb 01, 2006; ... Corporate Structure: Number of Employees: 200. President/ CEO: Dave Otterson. Headquarters: Huntsville, Ala. Telephone: (256) 319-0137. Web site: www.westwindcorp.com The depth and strength of WestWind's engineering and technical capability provide the company its ability to respond to ...
CompanyCommand: Building Combat-Ready Teams: Combat: What Will You Remember?
Feb 01, 2006; ... To: Company Commanders From: Company Commanders Being leaders in war introduces us to a vast number of unique experiences. In many cases, the experiences that we remember most are a combination of what we choose to remember and those events that are so intense that we can't help ...
XM320 Grenade Launcher Module And XM26 Modular Accessory Shotgun System
Feb 01, 2006; ... Two new weapon systems soon to enter U.S. Army inventories will provide today's warfighters with increased lethality, greater reliability and enhanced tactical capabilities. The new systems are the XM320 40 mm grenade launcher module (GLM) and the XM26 12-gauge modular accessory shotgun system ...
Combat Memoir Contains Important Lessons in Leadership
Feb 01, 2006; ... Combat Memoir Contains Important Lessons in Leadership Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters. Maj. Dick Winters with Col. Cole C. Kingseed. Berkley Caliber. 320 pages; black and white photographs; $24.95. The book and miniseries Band of Brothers portrayed Dick ...
Lights Off at the Pentagon
Feb 01, 2006; ... In 1939 I entered active service as a second lieutenant in the Army Reserve. Although a lawyer with an active practice, I was commissioned in the Infantry rather than the Judge Advocate Corps. I was ordered to active duty before World War II actually started. My first duty station was ...
Iraq Update
Feb 01, 2006; ... Iraqis went to the polls on December 15 to choose their parliamentary leaders for the next four years. An estimated 65 to 70 percent of registered Iraqi voters turned out, a higher participation than the two previous Iraqi elections held last January and October. There were some ...
Vivid, Detailed Account of the Capture of Baghdad
Feb 01, 2006; ... Vivid, Detailed Account of the Capture of Baghdad Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad. David Zucchino. Grove Press. 349 pages; maps; appendix; hardcover $24, softcover $14. "We Te don't do cities." Until our most recent war, this has been the unofficial but widely held ...
Noville Outpost to Bastogne: My Last Battle
Feb 01, 2006; ... Noville Outpost to Bastogne: My Last Battle. Don Addor. Trafford Publishing. 191 pages; black and white photographs; maps; $19.95. Don Addor was part of the dire defense of Noville, Belgium, the key town that the Germans wanted to push through to get to Bastogne. But Addor's task force ...
A Successful Civil War Partnership
Feb 01, 2006; ... A Successful Civil War Partnership Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War. Charles Bracelen Flood. Farrar, Straws and Giroux. 460 pages; maps; photographs; notes; index; $27. Military history is replete with successful partnerships that have shaped the course of the ...
Fighting for America: Black Soldiers-The Unsung Heroes of World War II
Feb 01, 2006; ... Varied Fare Fighting for America: Black Soldiers-The Unsung Heroes of World War II. Christopher Paul Moore. Ballantine Books. 368 pages; black & white photographs; maps; index; $15.95. Most books today about minorities in World War II focus on specific subgroups. Christopher Paul ...
The 'Shocking Deeds' of an American Officer
Feb 01, 2006; ... The 'Shocking Deeds' of an American Officer The Imperfect Spy: The Inside Story of a Convicted Spy. Lt. Col. Andy J. Byers, USA Ret. Vandamere Press. 256 pages; illustrations; copies of official documents; index; $24.95. ARMY readers may recall an article in the July 1998 issue, ...
The Army and Humanitarian Relief
Feb 01, 2006; ... The federal response to Hurricane Katrina has been severely criticized, as has its Army subcomponent. Interestingly enough, the Army response was larger, faster and more comprehensive than ever before in a natural disaster. What is more, it progressed about as those who originally envisioned an ...
The Caudal Appendage Of the Domesticated Ruminant
Feb 01, 2006; ... 50 Years Ago in ARMY I am pretty sure the only reason you have started to read this article is to find out what in the world its subject has to do with the Army. I wish I could keep your curiosity whetted right down to the last paragraph, but I can't. I've got to come clean right ...