Recently added articles from Military Review:
Interagency reform: the congressional perspective.
Jul 01, 2008; Davis, Geoff ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THANK YOU for the opportunity to join you today. National security organizational reform is of vital importance to our nation. As a member of the House Armed Services Committee and Co-chair of the House National Security Interagency Reform Working Group, ...
Field Manual 3-07, stability operations: upshifting the engine of change.
Jul 01, 2008; Caldwell, William B. ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE RELEASE OF Field Manual (FM) 3-07, Stability Operations, in the coming months will acknowledge and stress the criticality of the "whole-of-government" approach essential to achieving sustainable success in an era of persistent conflict. This approach ...
Darfur and peacekeeping operations in Africa.
Jul 01, 2008; Paterson, Patrick ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE CRISIS IN DARFUR, which the United States has labeled genocide and the United Nations has called "the world's gravest human rights abuse," has revealed glaring weaknesses in the African Union's (AU's) ability to conduct its own peacekeeping ...
Salvadoran reconciliation.(El Salvador Armed Forces and Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front)
Jul 01, 2008; Herrera, M. Chris ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WHEN THE BRUTAL 12-year civil war between the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) and the El Salvador Armed Forces (ESAF) finally ended in 1992, it had claimed more than 75,000 mostly innocent civilian lives and left another 8,000 missing. (1) ...
A troubled past: the army and security on the Mexican border, 1915-1917.
Jul 01, 2008; Bruscino, Thomas A., Jr. ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IN JUNE 2006, the United States dispatched military forces to its southern border to help stem the tide of illegal immigration from Mexico. The tempestuous historical relationship between the United States and Mexico meant that this was hardly the first ...
Persuasion and coercion in counterinsurgency warfare.
Jul 01, 2008; Birtle, Andrew J. ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IT IS EVIDENT," remarked Secretary of War Elihu Root at the end of the Philippine War, "that the insurrection has been brought to an end both by making a war distressing and hopeless on the one hand and by making peace attractive." (1) Root's appraisal ...
After Iraq: the politics of blame and civilian-military relations: the ideas and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the U.S. Air Force Academy, the U.S. Air Force, or the U.S. government.
Jul 01, 2008; Mastroianni, George R. ... WHILE AMERICANS ARE widely distributed across the political spectrum and are closely divided between the Republican and Democratic parties, our all-volunteer military is more politically conservative and more Republican. Regardless of which party Americans endorse, their attitudes toward ...
Legitimacy and military operations: the views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of the U.S. Government, the Department of Defense, or any of its agencies.(Essay)
Jul 01, 2008; Hammond, James W. ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] America is at war ... We have kept on the offensive against terrorist networks, leaving our enemy weakened, but not yet defeated ... The struggle against this enemy ... has been difficult. And our work is far from over --President George W ....
Twelve urgent steps for the advisor mission in Afghanistan.
Jul 01, 2008; Helmer, Daniel ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE ATTACKS OF 9/11 originated from Afghanistan, where a decade of international neglect after the fall of the communist government allowed Islamic extremists to train and thrive. Today, the mission to resurrect the failed Afghan state stands at "a ...
Burnout: staff exhaustion.
Jul 01, 2008; Bales, Stephen H. ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] COMMANDERS SHOULD PROACTIVELY take initiative to mitigate the conditions that cause their staffs to lose their peak effectiveness. Rejuvenating the staff through imaginative management can help prevent the erosion of effectiveness that systemic staff ...
Reaching out: partnering with Iraqi media.
Jul 01, 2008; DeCarvalho, Frank B. ... SINCE THE BEGINNING of combat operations in Iraq in March 2003, the media have disseminated countless war-related stories and articles of interest, reaching not only American citizens and military families in the United States but also an international community interested in gauging the ...
Why the U.S. should gender its counterterrorism strategy.
Jul 01, 2008; Byrd, Miemie Winn ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE U.S. MILITARY should address gender issues when designing counterterrorism strategies aimed at winning hearts and minds. As governments and development organizations around the world have already discovered, the "gendering" of policies, programs, and ...
Knowledge management by the generating force.
Jul 01, 2008; Degen, E.J. ... THE COLD WAR lulled the Army into the complacency of a deliberate, methodical, and time-consuming doctrinal process. Today, however, the accelerated operational tempo of the War on Terrorism has forced us to take an honest, in-depth look at how we collect, analyze, debate, codify, write, ...
The sole superpower in decline: the rise of a multipolar world.(INSIGHTS)
Jul 01, 2008; Hiro, Shri Dilip ... WITH THE COLLAPSE of the Soviet Union in 1991, the United States stood tall--militarily invincible, economically unrivalled, diplomatically uncontestable, and the dominating force on information channels worldwide. The next century was to be the true "American century," with the rest of ...
Benazir Bhutto, Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West.(Book review)
Jul 01, 2008; Kidwell, Deborah ... BENAZIR BHUTTO, RECONCILIATION: Islam, Democracy, and the West, Benazir Bhutto, HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 2008, 352 pages, $27.95. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Benazir Bhutto's Reconciliation is a reasoned and impassioned plea for support for an open and ...
Another Bloody Century: Future Warfare.(Book review)
Jul 01, 2008; Stephenson, Scott ... ANOTHER BLOODY CENTURY: Future Warfare, Colin S. Gray Phoenix Paperbacks, London, 2006, 431 pages $14.95. The author's title tells us much about his view of the future. Colin Gray believes that the more that war changes, the more it seems to stay the same. He believes that those ...
China's War on Terrorism: Counter-Insurgency, Politics and Internal Security.(Book review)
Jul 01, 2008; Oluic, Steven ... CHINA'S WAR ON TERRORISM: Counter-Insurgency, Politics and Internal Security, Martin I. Wayne, Routledge, New York, 2008, 196 pages, $125.00. Martin Wayne delivers much more than the book's title implies. The work is well organized, meticulously documented, and succinct, ...
How We Missed the Story: Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, and the Hijacking of Afghanistan.(Book review)
Jul 01, 2008; Rotkoff, Steven W. ... HOW WE MISSED THE STORY: Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, and the Hijacking of Afghanistan, Roy Gutman, United States Institute of Peace, 2008, 304 pages, $26.00. The story of Afghanistan from the Soviet invasion in 1979 through the rise of the Taliban and their post 9/11 removal ...
Koran, Kalashnikov, and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan.(Book review)
Jul 01, 2008; Stringer, Kevin D. ... KORAN, KALASHNIKOV, AND LAPTOP: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan, Antonio Giustozzi, Columbia University Press, New York, 2008, 259 pages, $24.95. With his book Koran, Kalashnikov, and Laptop, Antonio Giustozzi has produced the definitive volume on the resurgent Taliban ...
Rupert Red Two.(Book review)
Jul 01, 2008; Ward, Thomas E. ... RUPERT RED TWO, Jack Broughton, Zenith Press, St. Paul, MN, 2007, 352 pages, $26.95. How does one become a great leader, and what does that really mean? Jack Broughton provides superb examples of what it means to lead, and how one learns to lead. His bottom line: to be a great ...