Military Review back issues from May 2004:
The National Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve.
May 01, 2004; ... THE National Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR) helps members of the U.S. Army National Guard (ARNG) and Army Reserve (USAR) balance responsibilities to employers with military obligations. ESGR informs employers about the value of Reserve Component (RC) service ...
Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act.
May 01, 2004; ... ENACTED IN October 1994 and updated in 1996, 1998, and 2000, the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) provides reemployment protection and other benefits for veterans and employees who perform military service. (1) The Act sets forth the rights and ...
Information operations in Iraq.
May 01, 2004; ... Mid-level Baathists ... are conducting what I would describe as a classical guerrilla-type campaign against us. --General John Abizaid (1) AN AMERICAN infantry team rolls through an Iraqi town in the Sunni triangle, an area west of Baghdad in the fertile Euphrates ...
Redefining the foreign area officer's role.
May 01, 2004; ... LONG BEFORE 11 September 2001 brought the reality of asymmetric warfare to the American homeland, statesmen, military theorists, and others were grappling with what the end of the Cold War would mean for U.S. security interests around the world. New theories of external threats to the ...
Behind friendly lines: enforcing the need for a joint SOF staff officer.
May 01, 2004; ... THE EVENTS OF 11 September 2001 and the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) have resulted in a significant expansion of U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) and special operations forces (SOF) roles and missions. At the direction of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, the Army has also ...
Operation Enduring Freedom-Philippines: what would Sun Tzu say?
May 01, 2004; ... IN THE GLOBAL War on Terrorism (GWOT), while Operation Enduring Freedom aims to defeat the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, Operation Enduring Freedom-Philippines (OEF-P) continues with little fanfare. The operation began in response to the kidnappings of U.S. citizens by the Abu ...
Preparing leaders for nationbuilding.
May 01, 2004; ... TRADOC [The U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command] develops competent and adaptive leaders while ensuring currency in our doctrine and looks to the future while maintaining a firm grasp on today ..., imbu[ing] the qualities and skills necessary to dominate across the spectrum of ...
A history of unit stabilization.
May 01, 2004; ... ONE OF THE PERSISTENT themes in the U.S. Army is the belief that stabilizing personnel in units will improve readiness and retention by slowing down the movement of soldiers and holding them together long enough for them to bond and learn to operate as teams. History and sociological ...
Army transformation: the human condition of soldiering.
May 01, 2004; ... IN THE LATE 1990s, the Chief of Staff of the Army (CSA) announced that Fort Lewis, Washington, would be the site of the Army's initial effort at Transformation. The Transformation challenge was to change personnel procedures, equipment, mission analysis, and leader training to transform ...
Develop people and units before developing technology.
May 01, 2004; ... Agesilaus answers a man who asks why Sparta has no walls by pointing to the army and saying, 'There are Sparta's walls.' --Silius Italicus (1) DURING THE 1st century A.D., Silius Italicus recognized the supremacy of man over machine as he decried Rome's reliance on ...
Homeland defense: the Pennsylvania State Guard, 1941-1953.
May 01, 2004; ... ON 8 OCTOBER 2001, less than a month after the terrorist attacks on the United States, President George W. Bush created the Office of Homeland Security (now the Department of Homeland Security), with former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge as director. Homeland defense or homeland security ...
Army value added along the way ahead.(Insights)
May 01, 2004; ... Throughout military history, particularly American military history, a commitment to build and exploit technological advantages has remained constant. As in the past, today's military strategists remain fascinated with technology and the advantages it offers and continue to debate the ...
Transforming for new military demands.(Insights)
May 01, 2004; ... A few years ago military buzzwords included "revolution in military affairs," "precision fires," and "massing effects." Today the buzzword is "Transformation." Former and current Chiefs of Staff of the Army General Eric K. Shinseki and General Peter J. Schoomaker understand the Army's need ...
Technology and the American Civil War.(Almanac)
May 01, 2004; ... German strategist General Helmuth von Moltke once described the American Civil War as "two armed mobs chasing each other around the country, from which nothing could be learned."1 Despite Moltke's disdain for America's military efforts during the Civil War, the U.S. Army can learn a great ...
Training for war while keeping the peace.(Almanac)
May 01, 2004; ... As the U.S. Army enters the 21st century, its primary mission remains unchanged--to fight and win the Nation's wars. Under the rubric of peace operations (POs), the Army has participated in operations in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo. Based on open-ended operations in ...
A history of the Kuwaiti Armed Forces.(Review Essay)
May 01, 2004; ... Kuwaiti Brigadier General Ameen Muhammad Al-Saqr's book Al-Qooah Al-Askariyah Al-Kuwaitiah: Ahad Al-Anaaser Qooah Al-Dawlah Al-Shamlah Lee Radeeah Al-Akhtar an Al-Dawlah (Kuwait military power: one of the aspects of comprehensive national power in determining threats to the state) delves ...
The 41st Infantry Division and the 4th Armored Division: memoirs of World War II.(Bookshelf)
May 01, 2004; ... Because its scope, scale, and horrors seem incomprehensible to us now, World War II continues to fascinate us. Books published on battles that occurred over 60 years ago seem somehow both remote and immediate. World War II is remote from contemporary experience and seems particularly ...
The Twenty-Five Year Century: a South Vietnamese General Remembers the Indochina War to the Fall of Saigon.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... THE TWENTY-FIVE YEAR CENTURY: A South Vietnamese General Remembers the Indochina War to the Fall of Saigon, Lam Quang Thi, University of North Texas Press, Denton, 2002, 423 pages, $32.95. Despite the hundreds of books written about the Vietnam war, there was a large gap in the ...
Strategic Asia 2002-2003: Asian Aftershocks.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... STRATEGIC ASIA 2002-2003: Asian Aftershocks, Richard J. Ellings and Aaron L. Friedberg, eds., The National Bureau of Asian Research, Seattle, WA, 2002, 430 pages, $24.95. Strategic Asia 2002-2003: Asian Aftershocks is a masterfully written book. Using information from an annual ...
Waging War Without Warriors: the Changing Culture of Military Conflict.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... WAGING WAR WITHOUT WARRIORS: The Changing Culture of Military Conflict, Christopher Coker, Lynne Rienner Publishers, London, 2002, 195 pages, $49.95. In Waging War without Warriors, Christopher Coker examines the transformation of war as an all-consuming contest that tries not ...
Iran and the Surrounding World: Interactions in Culture and Cultural Politics.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... IRAN AND THE SURROUNDING WORLD: Interactions in Culture and Cultural Politics, Nikki R. Keddie and Rudi Matthee, eds., University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2002, 400 pages, $30.00. Iran considers itself to be a cultural beacon in the Middle East and South Asia. The Islamic ...
How Wars are Won: the 13 Rules of War from Ancient Greece to the War on Terrorism.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... HOW WARS ARE WON: The 13 Rules of War from Ancient Greece to the War on Terrorism, Bevin Alexander, Crown Publishers, New York, 2002, 416 pages, $25.95. In How Wars are Won: The 13 Rules of War from Ancient Greece to the War on Terror, Bevin Alexander lists 13 rules of war that ...
Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300-900.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... MEDIEVAL CHINESE WARFARE, 300-900, David A. Graff, Routledge, New York, 2002, 288 pages, $27.95. David Graff's Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300-900, contains little on battles, more on the military, and most on the "interrelationship of warfare, state, and society during the six ...
Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam: Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... COUNTERINSURGENCY LESSONS FROM MALAYA AND VIETNAM: Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife, John A. Nagl, Praeger, Westport, CT, 2002, 249 pages, $67.95. The British Army developed a successful counterinsurgency doctrine in Malaya because of its success as a learning institution, ...
Lee's Tar Heels: the Pettigrew-Kirkland-MacRae Brigade.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... LEE'S TAR HEELS: The Pettigrew-Kirkland-MacRae Brigade, Earl J. Hess, The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2002, 437 pages, $39.95. In presenting the most comprehensive account of one of the Confederacy's most celebrated and successful units, Earl J. Hess draws ...
Hitler's Volkssturm: the Nazi Militia and the Fall of Germany, 1944-1945.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... HITLER'S VOLKSSTURM: The Nazi Militia and the Fall of Germany, 1944-1945, David K. Yelton, University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, 2002, 305 pages, $39.95. Just as Saddam Hussein hoped his Fedayeen would somehow stall the U.S. drive on Baghdad in the spring of 2003, Adolf Hitler ...
Johnny Green of the Orphan Brigade: the Journal of a Confederate Soldier.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... JOHNNY GREEN OF THE ORPHAN BRIGADE: The Journal of a Confederate Soldier, Albert. D. Kirwan, ed., University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, 2002, 272 pages, $22.00. University Press of Kentucky has reissued Johnny Green of the Orphan Brigade: The Journal of a Confederate Soldier, ...
What Does the World Want From America? International Perspectives on U.S. Foreign Policy.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... WHAT DOES THE WORLD WANT FROM AMERICA? International Perspectives on U.S. Foreign Policy, Alexander T.J. Lennon, ed., The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2002, 200 pages, $22.95. This interesting collection of essays looks at U.S. international relations and foreign policy and asks us ...
The French Second Empire: an Anatomy of Political Power.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... THE FRENCH SECOND EMPIRE: An Anatomy of Political Power, Roger Price, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2001, 507 pages, $75.00. The French mucked up every step of the way while losing the Franco-Prussian War. Roger Price provides a compelling historical analysis of the ...
The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... THE SPECTER OF GENOCIDE: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective, Robert Gellately and Ben Kiernan, eds., Cambridge University Press, New York, 2003, 396 pages, $60.00. Genocide? Does the word define crimes of war, crimes against humanity, or ethnic cleansing? The essays in The ...
The Malady of Islam.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... THE MALADY OF ISLAM, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Pierre Joris and Ann Reid, eds., Basic Books, New York, 2003, 241 pages, $24.00. The Malady of Islam, which offers insight into the condition of modern Islam, is written more for someone familiar with Islam than for the neophyte. The ...
Burma's Armed Forces: Power Without Glory.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... BURMA'S ARMED FORCES: Power Without Glory, Andrew Selth, Eastbridge, Norwalk, CT, 2002, 371 pages, $44.95. Andrew Selth is a former diplomatic officer who served in Burma, Korea, and New Zealand. Since 1986, he has served as a strategic analyst with the Australian Defense ...
The United States Marines in North China, 1894-1942.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... THE UNITED STATES MARINES IN NORTH CHINA, 1894-1942, Chester M. Biggs, Jr., McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, NC, 2003, 284 pages, $42.50. Chester M. Biggs, who has written a first-class account of The United States Marines in North China, 1894-1942, served as a China ...
To Battle for God and the Right: the Civil War Letterbooks of Emerson Opdycke.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... TO BATTLE FOR GOD AND THE RIGHT: The Civil War Letterbooks of Emerson Opdycke, Glenn V. Longacre and John E. Haas, eds., University of Illinois Press, Champaign, 2003, 332 pages, $34.95. To Battle for God and the Right: The Civil War Letterbooks of Emerson Opdycke is a ...
The Military and Democracy in Indonesia: Challenges, Politics and Power.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... THE MILITARY AND DEMOCRACY IN INDONESIA: Challenges, Politics and Power, Angel Rabasa and John Haseman, RAND, Santa Monica, CA, 2002, 157 pages, $20.00. American security interests in Indonesia include developing a cooperative partner in prosecuting the Global War on Terrorism ...
An unconventional war: the Philippine Insurrection, 1899.
May 01, 2004; ... When Aguinaldo found out that his army could not stem the American advance in northern Luzon by frontal resistance, he [gave] orders to all subordinate commanders to engage in guerrilla warfare. As a result, American casualties doubled. --Carlos Quirino (1) THE U.S ....