Military Review back issues from September 2005:
French Algeria and British Northern Ireland.(Letter to the Editor)
Sep 01, 2005; ... Timothy Durbin, MEDPROS Readiness Coordinator, ASM Research, Inc., Fort Carson, Colorado--I really liked Lieutenant Colonel James D. Campbell's article "French Algeria and British Northern Ireland: Legitimacy and the Rule of Law in Low-Intensity Conflict" (March-April 2005), but I see one ...
Marketing and information operations.(Letter to the Editor)
Sep 01, 2005; ... Major Chad Storlie, US. Army Reserve, Marketing Director, Union Pacific Railroad Adjunct Professor of Marketing, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska--From December 2002 through October 2003, in support of OIF, I served as a Ground Planner and the Current Plans Director for Combined Joint ...
Corrections.(Letters)(Correction Notice)
Sep 01, 2005 ... In the May-June 2005 article, "Transformation: Victory Rests with Small Units," the author's byline should read: Sergeant First Class Robert Ehrlich. The title for figure 6, page 85, should read: "Heavy Indirect-Fire Platoon Structure." On page 69 of Theo ...
Seeing red: creating a red-team capability for the blue force.
Sep 01, 2005; ... This is not exactly the enemy we wargamed against. --LTG William S. Wallace, Commander of V Corps during Operation Iraqi Freedom (1) LIEUTENANT GENERAL William S. Wallace had considered the adaptive nature of the enemy, but apparently he had not expected the intensity ...
Perceptions and courses of actions toward Iran.
Sep 01, 2005; ... TAKE THIS QUICK QUIZ: In which Islamic theocracy were there immediate and repeated public outpourings of sympathy for Americans following the 9/11 attacks in 2001? If you did not know about the several candlelight vigils in Iran, you are not alone. In fact, few Americans know that hundreds ...
Battle command toppling the tower of Babel.
Sep 01, 2005; ... As night fell, the situation grew threatening. Marcone arrayed his battalion in a defensive position on the far side of the bridge and awaited the arrival of bogged-down reinforcements. One communications intercept did reach him: A single Iraqi brigade was moving south from the airport ....
Don't follow the bear: the soviet attempt to build Afghanistan's military.
Sep 01, 2005; ... THE SOVIET experience in Afghanistan during the 1980s provides many lessons for contemporary military operations. The apparent similarity to the position the United States finds itself in today in Afghanistan and Iraq warrants giving some attention to Soviet lessons learned. Many of these ...
Using biometrics to achieve identity dominance in the global war on terrorism.
Sep 01, 2005; ... A FINGERPRINT match identified the 20th hijacker. In December 2001, U.S. military forces detained Mohamed Al Kahtani as an enemy combatant on the field of battle in Southwest Asia. (1) During repeated interrogations Kahtani denied being a combatant and offered an innocent explanation for ...
North Korea: government-sponsored drug trafficking.
Sep 01, 2005; ... ON 16 APRIL 2003, off the coast of Australia, aerial surveillance of the North Korean freighter Pong Su led police to follow two Chinese suspects as they left the beach and headed for a nearby hotel. The following morning police apprehended them, seized 50 kilograms of pure heroin, and ...
The new master of wizard's chess: the real Hugo Chavez and asymmetric warfare.
Sep 01, 2005; ... BEGINNING WITH the election of Hugo Chavez Frias as President of Venezuela in 1998, the United States and Venezuela have exchanged a continuous series of acrimonious charges and countercharges. Each country has repeatedly argued that the other is engaged in a political, economic, military ...
International law and terrorism.
Sep 01, 2005; ... WE HAVE BEEN operating impression that the International Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) is inimical to our effective prosecution of the war on terrorism. (1) But what has come to be called lawfare is a weapon that rightly belongs in the hands of those who abide by the LOAC. I submit that our ...
Unprivileged belligerency: the IRA.(Irish Republican Army)
Sep 01, 2005; ... Formal declarations of war have long been out of fashion. But when a state of war ... is recognized as such by all the countries involved in it, persons who kill innocent civilians (e.g., by bombing raids) are not regarded as murderers and may even be militarily decorated. If caught by the ...
Sidewise technologies: national security and global power implications.
Sep 01, 2005; ... IF WE ACCEPT the premise that the latest advances in technology matter the most, looking at comparative international positioning in information technology (IT), biotechnology, nanotechnology, and quantum computing, then we would logically ask: Can the United States keep its lead over ...
Chinese army modernization: an overview.(China. People's Liberation Army)
Sep 01, 2005; ... THE CHINESE People's Liberation Army (PLA) is in the third decade of a comprehensive program of modernization and transformation that began in 1979 after the PLA's last major campaign against a foreign enemy, its "self-defensive counterattack" against Vietnam. The program continues with ...