Recently added articles from Military Review:
Systemic operational design: learning and adapting in complex missions.
Jan 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] NEARLY ALL MISSIONS this century will be complex, and the kind of thinking we have called "operational art" is often now required at battalion level. Fundamentally, operational art requires balancing design and planning while remaining open to learning and ...
The truth is out there: responding to insurgent disinformation and deception operations.
Jan 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] OPERATION VALHALLA was a completely ordinary engagement, typical of the type of operation U.S. Special Forces units have participated in throughout the Iraq war. Yet, it was, if not a turning point in the war, a perfect example of the challenges fighting ...
Sentinels of Afghan democracy: the Afghan National Army.
Jan 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] We can help train an army, we can help equip an army, we can help build facilities for the army, but only the Afghan people can breathe a soul into that army. (1) --Lieutenant General Karl Eikenberry, U.S. Army SINCE THE LAUNCH of ...
Thickening the lines: sons of Iraq, a combat multiplier.
Jan 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than that you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them. --T.E. Lawrence, "Twenty-Seven Articles," The Arab Bulletin, 20 ...
Oil, corruption, and threats to our national interest: will we learn from Iraq?
Jan 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT knew the insidious impact of corruption in government and society when in 1900 he said, "No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community." (1) Oil ...