Military Review back issues from July 2006:
Family and future: five assignments for future leaders.
Jul 01, 2006; ... The Honorable Ike Skelton, U.S. House of Representatives, Democrat. Missouri, was scheduled as the graduation speaker for the Command and General Staff Officer Course of 2006. Official duties kept the congressman from attending the graduation, so he asked to share his prepared speech with ...
Advising Iraqis: building the Iraqi Army.
Jul 01, 2006; ... IF AMERICA AGREES with President George W. Bush that failure in Iraq is not an option, then the adviser mission there will clearly be a long-term one. The new Iraqi Army (IA) will need years to become equal to the challenge posed by a persistent insurgent and terrorist threat, and U.S ....
Going Home.(Poem)
Jul 01, 2006 ... <Pre> GOING HOME I'm wearing my Class A uniform, waiting on flight number 4505.The plane will pick me up in New York and deposit me inPhiladelphia, whereI will meet an old Army friend; together we'll travel to a specialceremony. My polyester uniform does ...
Countering evolved insurgent networks.
Jul 01, 2006; ... THE FIRST STEP in meeting the challenge facing us in Iraq today or in similar war zones tomorrow is to understand that insurgency and counterinsurgency are very different tasks. The use of Special Forces against insurgents in Vietnam to "out-guerrilla the guerrillas" provided exactly the ...
Responding to Bolivian democracy: avoiding the mistakes of early U.S. Cuban policy.
Jul 01, 2006; ... FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS, U.S. Government policy has been to promote democracy in Latin America. The election of Eve Morales as president of Bolivia is perhaps the strongest evidence to date that countries on the Andean Ridge are achieving that often-stated policy goal. By all accounts, ...
Full-spectrum analysis: a new way of thinking for a new world.(terrorism prevention methods)
Jul 01, 2006; ... We relied as usual on our own Soviet experts. (1) --Sherman Kent, commonly referred to as the "father of modern day intelligence analysis," commenting in 1964 on some of the reasons why the U.S. intelligence community missed the deployment of Soviet missiles into Cuba. ...
USAF relevance in the 21st century: a first, quarter team in a four-quarter game.(Air Force)
Jul 01, 2006; ... THE RISE IN TERRORISM perpetrated by non-state actors is a primary threat to U.S. national security. It also challenges the relevance of air and space power. Although the United States has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to achieve decisive effects using air and space power in ...
Producing victory: rethinking conventional forces in COIN operations.(improvised explosive devices)
Jul 01, 2006; ... Sunrise over Baghdad finds a maneuver battalion executing several missions Two platoons are on patrol, one sweeping a main supply route for improvised explosive devices (IEDs), the other escorting "Team Trash"--a dump truck and bucket loader--through a poor Shi'a neighborhood. A third ...
Unit immersion in Mosul: establishing stability in transition.(economic oppurtunities)
Jul 01, 2006; ... AS CONVENTIONAL U.S. FORCES transition from full combat to stability operations, they will likely assume responsibility for areas that have suffered significant war-related damage. In the wake of combat operations, the local people may be demoralized by their nation's defeat, by the ...
Hezbollah's employment suicide bombing during the 1980s: the theological, political, and operational development of a new tactic.(1st Place DePuy Writing Competition)
Jul 01, 2006; ... The shahid (martyr) can be compared to a candle whose job it is to burn out and get extinguished in order to shed light for the benefit of others. The shahada (martyrs) are the candles of society. They burn themselves out and illuminate society. If they do not shed their light, no ...
A dragon in the Andes? China, Venezuela, and U.S. energy security.(Ju Yijie)(Interview)
Jul 01, 2006; ... IN AUGUST 2005, the Venezuelan daily El Universal published an interview with Ambassador Ju Yijie, the Chinese envoy to Caracas. When asked if China's demand for Venezuelan oil could push the United States out of Venezuela's market, the ambassador asserted that "China has the potential to ...
Castro's tactics of control in Cuba.(Fidel Castro's political activities)
Jul 01, 2006; ... AFTER THE BERLIN WALL FELL and the Soviet Union collapsed, U.S. policy toward Latin America degenerated into a condition of smug complacency and benign neglect. The policy apparently stemmed from the assumption that Leninist-style socialism had failed and that democratic capitalism had ...
The all-volunteer Army can we still claim success?
Jul 01, 2006; ... [Secretary of the Army] Callaway positively glowed. On 1 July he met reporters at the Pentagon and declared the volunteer Army a success. The Army had ended fiscal year 1974 with slightly more than 783,000 men and women on active duty, approximately 1,400 more than its authorized end ...
Cultural awareness and irregular warfare: French Army experience in Africa.
Jul 01, 2006; ... FOR OVER 40 YEARS, French soldiers have learned the hard way the various challenges of counterinsurgency (COIN) and security and stability operations (SASO) in Africa. While training African troops and territorial militia, they have confronted profound cultural gaps and, since the 1960s, ...
Our strategic intelligence problem.(political aspects involving terrorism)
Jul 01, 2006; ... Our national intelligence system will never meet our unrealistic expectations, nor can it ever answer all of our needs. No matter what we do or change or buy, intelligence agencies will remain unable to satisfy our government's appetite for knowledge. This isn't defeatism, but realism. We ...
Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq.(Book review)
Jul 01, 2006; ... COBRA II: THE INSIDE STORY OF THE INVASION AND OCCUPATION OF IRAQ, Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor, Pantheon Books, New York, 2006, 603 pages. Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor have delivered the second of their histories of U.S. wars in the Persian Gulf, and it ...
Fighting for Fallujah: A New Dawn for Iraq.(Book review)
Jul 01, 2006; ... FIGHTING FOR FALLUJAH: A New Dawn for Iraq, John R. Ballard, Praeger Security International, Westport, CT, 2006, 184 pages, $44.95. Written by John Ballard, commander of the Marine Corps' 4th Civil Affairs Group in Iraq, Fighting for Fallujah is a first-hand account of how ...
I, Nadia: Wife of a Terrorist.(Book review)
Jul 01, 2006; ... I, NADIA: Wife of a Terrorist, Baya Gacemi, Paul Cote, and Constantina Mitchell, trans., Bison Books, a division of the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 160 pages, 2006, $24.95. One can acquire an appreciation for Islamist militant tactics, outlooks, and world vision from ...
New Glory: Expanding America's Global Supremacy.(Book review)
Jul 01, 2006; ... NEW GLORY: Expanding America's Global Supremacy, Ralph Peters, Sentinel, New York, 2005, 283 pages, $24.95. New Glory is riveting and hard hitting. As always, Peters puts in words what others only think about saying. With opinions and recommendations that are controversial, ...
Weapon of Choice: ARSOF in Afghanistan.(Book review)
Jul 01, 2006; ... WEAPON OF CHOICE: ARSOF in Afghanistan, Charles H. Briscoe, Richard L. Kiper, James A. Schroder, and Kalev I. Sepp, Combat Studies Institute Press, Leavenworth, Kansas, 2004, 399 pages, $61.00. This may be one of the toughest books you ever tried to find. The press run was ...
Darwin and International Relations: On the Evolutionary Origins of War and Ethnic Conflict.(Book review)
Jul 01, 2006; ... DARWIN AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: On the Evolutionary Origins of War and Ethnic Conflict, Bradley A. Thayer, The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, 2004, 425 pages, $40.00. Bradley A. Thayer has an intriguing idea: Use hard science to examine topics in the soft sciences ...
Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground.(Book review)
Jul 01, 2006; ... IMPERIAL G RUNTS: The American Military on the Ground, Robert D. Kaplan, Random House, New York, 2005, 372 pages, $27.95. Imperial Grunts provides compelling insights into present-day American imperialism and the multifarious challenges facing U.S. forces as they prosecute the ...
The North Korean People's Army: Origins and Current Tactics.(Book review)
Jul 01, 2006; ... THE NORTH KOREAN PEOPLE'S ARMY: Origins and Current Tactics, James M. Minnich, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD, 2005, 164 pages, $27.95. James M. Minnich, a U.S. Army foreign area officer in the Republic of Korea (ROK), leveraged 23 years of military experience as he ...
The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jul 01, 2006; ... THE GERMAN WAY OF WAR: From the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich, Robert M. Citino, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, 2005, 428 pages, $34.95. Robert M. Citino's The German Way of War is yet another book that analyzes the Prussian-German culture and military art of war ...
Private Perry and Mister Poe--The West Point Poems, 1831, Edgar Allan Poe.(Book review)
Jul 01, 2006; ... PRIVATE PERRY AND MISTER POE--The West Point Poems, 1831, Edgar Allan Poe, William F. Hecker III, ed., Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 2005, 165 pages, $19.95. Concerning his edited work of Edgar Allan Poe's edition of 1831 poems, Army officer and former West ...
Telling the Afghan military story.(Letter to the editor)
Jul 01, 2006; ... Lieutenant Colonel Pamela Keeton, U.S. Army Reserve, Retired--Having served in CFC-A public affairs during 2004-2005, I read with interest Lieutenant Colonel Charles W. Rick's March-April 2006 Military Review article "Telling the Afghan Military Story ... Their Way!" Everyone who has ...
Correction.(Letters)(Correction notice)
Jul 01, 2006 ... Footnote 10 in the article "Telling the Afghan Military Story" should read ... U.N. General Assembly Security Council Report ...
Kudo for IO.(Letter to the editor)
Jul 01, 2006; ... Joel K. Harding, Senior Military Analyst, SAIC Strategies Group-I work for SAIC in Information Operations and I just wanted to let you know that Colonel Ralph O. Baker's article, The Decisive Weapon: A Brigade Combat Team Commander's Perspective on Information Operations (May-June 2006 ...