Military Review back issues from January 2008:
Monitoring and evaluation of Department of Defense Humanitarian Assistance programs.(ASSESSING AID PROGRAMS)
Jan 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If you took all the bricks in the Pentagon and laid them end to end, they would reach around the earth four and a half times.--Pentagon tour guide, 7 December 2006 THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (DOD) executes humanitarian activities primarily ...
A balanced approach to amnesty, reconciliation, and reintegration.(NORTHERN IRELAND)(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SINCE 1969 the United Kingdom (U.K.) has attempted to resolve conflict in Northern Ireland through amnesty, reconciliation, and reintegration (AR2). Conflict resolution in Northern Ireland presents valuable lessons for any student of AR2 because it is a ...
Protection of arts and antiquities during wartime: examining the past and preparing for the future.(PROTECTING ANTIQUITIES)
Jan 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Shortly we will be fighting our way across the Continent of Europe in battles designed to preserve our civilization. Inevitably, in the path of our advance will be found historical monuments and cultural centers that symbolize to the world all that we are ...
Operation Mountain Lion: CJTF-76 in Afghanistan, spring 2006.
Jan 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] FOLLOWING THE COLLAPSE of the Taliban in Afghanistan and its escape into Pakistan in 2002, remnants of the group were forced to focus their efforts on mere survival. However, aided by funds from illicit opium growers and abetted by criminals and Al-Qaeda ...
On luck and leadership.(3rd Place: MacArthur Writing Contest)
Jan 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AN ANCIENT TAOIST PARABLE, transmitted by a 13th century Japanese poet, tells the story of a Chinese farmer's son who falls off a horse and breaks his arm. "How unlucky the farmer is," his neighbors think as they pay their condolences. A year later, an ...
The rule of law for commanders.
Jan 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Long-term security does not come from the end of a gun. --LTG Peter Chiarelli, Commander MNC-1 A POPULAR SAYING holds that the purpose of the Army is to "kill people and break things." While this is cute and crisp, it runs counter to ...
Beyond guns and steer: reviving the nonmilitary instruments of American power: remarks as delivered verbatim by Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, Manhattan, Kansas, 26 November 2007.
Jan 01, 2008; ... IT IS BOTH AN HONOR AND A PLEASURE to be part of the Landon Lecture series--a forum that for more than four decades has hosted some of America's leading intellectuals and statesmen. Considering that, I at first wondered if the invitation was in fact meant for Bill Gates. It is a ...
The Quiet American, The Ugly American.
Jan 01, 2008; ... The Quiet American, The Ugly American Counterinsurgency from the Fifties [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In a recent speech highlighting what might happen if the U.S. should withdraw quickly from Iraq, President George W. Bush alluded to Graham Greene's Vietnam-era ...
House to House: An Epic Memoir of War.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... HOUSE TO HOUSE: An Epic Memoir of War, Staff Sergeant David Bellavia with John R. Bruning, Free Press, New York, 2007, 321 pages, $26.00. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When searching for one word to describe this book, "raw" comes to mind. The language is raw, the ...
Terrorism Financing and State Responses: A Comparative Perspective.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... TERRORISM FINANCING AND STATE RESPONSES: A Comparative Perspective, Jeanne K. Giraldo and Harold A. Trinkunas, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 2007, 365 pages, $24.95. Where do terrorists get their money? Have we done all we can in the global War on Terrorism to deny ...
Ungoverned Territories.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... UNGOVERNED TERRITORIES, Angel Rabasa, Steven Boraz, Peter Chalk, Kim Cragin, Theodore W. Karasik, Jennifer D.P. Moroney, Kevin A. O'Brien, and John E. Peters, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica. CA, 2007, 384 pages, $44.00. "Since the end of the Cold War, failed or failing states ...
Making Sense of War: Strategy for the 21st Century.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... MAKING SENSE OF WAR: Strategy for the 21st Century, Alan Stephens and Nicola Baker, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2006, 306 pages, $45.00. Utilizing their military, academic, and defense-industry experience, Alan Stephens and Nicola Baker provide a concise but ...
The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War without End.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... THE END OF IRAQ: How American Incompetence Created a War without End, Peter W. Galbraith, Simon and Schuster, New York, 2006, 260 pages, $26.00. Of all the books written on the war in Iraq this year, The End of Iraq is one of the few to actually chart a way ahead for what is ...
Take Down: The 3rd Infantry Division's Twenty-One Day Assault on Baghdad.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... TAKE DOWN: The 3rd Infantry Division's Twenty-One Day Assault on Baghdad, Jim Lacey, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD, 2007, 267 pages. According to author Jim Lacey, "What the soldiers of the 3d Infantry Division collectively accomplished [during Operation Iraqi Freedom] ...
Unholy Terror: Bosnia, Al-Qa'ida, and the Rise of Global Jihad.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... UNHOLY TERROR: Bosnia, Al-Qa'ida, and the Rise of Global Jihad, John R. Schindler, Zenith Press, St. Paul, MN, 2007, 368 pages, $27.95. Former intelligence analyst John Schindler has written the book about the Bosnian war that other analysts only talked about writing. ...
Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront since 1941.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... BEHIND THE LINES: War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront since 1941, Philip Metres, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, 2007, 282 pages, $39.95. They have made war till we were dead from weeping. --The goddess Iris to Helen, The Iliad In Behind ...
The War I Always Wanted: The Illusion of Glory and the Reality of War: A Screaming Eagle in Afghanistan and Iraq.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... THE WAR I ALWAYS WANTED: The Illusion of Glory and the Reality of War: A Screaming Eagle in Afghanistan and Iraq, Brandon Friedman, Zenith Press, MBI Publishing Company, St. Paul, MN, 2007, 255 pages, $24.95. Only weeks after 9/11, Brandon Friedman, a rifle platoon leader and a ...
The Rising Tide.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... THE RISING TIDE, Jeff Shaara, Ballantine Books, New York, 2007, 536 pages, $15.95. The Rising Tide is the first of three historical novels Jeff Shaara intends to write about the North African and European campaigns of World War II. As both a novel and a history, the book is a ...
Sea Change at Annapolis: The United States Naval Academy, 1949-2000.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... SEA CHANGE AT ANNAPOLIS: The United States Naval Academy, 1949-2000, H. Michael Gelfand, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2006, $34.95. The key to H. Michael Gelfand's book on the U.S. Naval Academy lies in the double-entendre in the book's title, not in its ...
800 Days on the Eastern Front.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... 800 DAYS ON THE EASTERN FRONT, Nikolai Litvin, Stuart Britton trans. and ed., University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, 2007, 159 pages, $24.95. RED PARTISAN: The Memoir of a Soviet Resistance Fighter on the Eastern Front, Nikolai I. Obryn'ba, Potomac Books, Dulles, VA, 2007, 256 pages, ...
Boy Soldier: Budapest, 1944-1945.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... BOY SOLDIER: Budapest, 1944-1945, by Ervin V. Galantay, Budapest: Militaria, Second Edition, 2007, 319 pages, $76.50. Oh, to be fourteen again! This book is about being a fourteen-year-old male in urban combat in Hungary during fall and winter. It is about fighting against ...
15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall: Three Generals Who Saved the American Century.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... 15 STARS: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall: Three Generals Who Saved the American Century, Stanley Weintraub, Free Press, New York, 2007, 541 pages. $30.00 This very readable book is a collective biography of three five-star generals identified in the subtitle. It concentrates on ...
Civil War Leadership and Mexican War Experience.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... CIVIL WAR LEADERSHIP AND MEXICAN WAR EXPERIENCE, Kevin Dougherty, University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, 2007, 193 pages, $50.00. Kevin Dougherty's Civil War Leadership and Mexican War Experience analyzes several of the Civil War's controversial command decisions by framing ...
After Fidel.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Colonel Eduardo Gomez, US AR, Miami, Florida--Dr. Waltraud Morales' article "After Fidel: What Future for U.S.-Cuban Relations?" (September-October 2007, Military Review) presents a distorted picture of Cuba, its relations with the U.S., and how [the island] impacts Latin America. Her ...
Threat analysis: organized crime and narco-terrorism in Northern Mexico.
Jan 01, 2008; ... ORGANIZED CRIME SYNDICATES are modern enemies of democracy that relentlessly engage in kidnapping and assassination of political figures, and traffic not only in addictive and lethal substances, but also increasingly in human beings. To create an environment conducive to success in their ...
U.S. Africa command: a new strategic paradigm?
Jan 01, 2008; ... This new command will strengthen our security cooperation with Africa and help to create new opportunities to bolster the capabilities of our partners in Africa. Africa Command will enhance our efforts to help bring peace and security to the people of Africa and promote our common goals of ...
Redefining insurgency.(INSIGHTS)(Definition)
Jan 01, 2008; ... "OH, NO! Not another suggestion on how to define insurgency! Now we'll have to change all our counterinsurgency doctrine as well!" Yes and no. Yes, "insurgency" needs a better definition to fit circumstances today. We say the word, but it no longer applies in most areas. But, ...
A Question of Trees.(Poem)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Pre> A QUESTION OF TREES If a tree in the forest falls, do the other trees in the forest care? 30 JUN 07 117 degrees. Memorial ceremony for a fallen soldier. Bagpipes. Taps. Fold the Flag. Final salute. I hope you think of him, and his wife and ...
Merging Information Operations and Psychological Operations.(2nd Place: Writing IO Contest)(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... This article represents my personal observations and opinions and does not reflect the official views of the PSYOP community, U.S. Special Operations Command, or the U.S. Army. ********** [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Isolated communities of personnel should ...
Finding America's role in a collapse North Korean State.(4th Place: DePuy Writing Competition)(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IRAQI DICTATOR SADDAM HUSSEIN was an irritant to the United States and defied the international community over his weapons programs for a decade, causing some U.S. leaders to push for removing him and transforming Iraq into a democratic state ....
International law and slavery.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SLAVERY WAS WIDESPREAD and legally sanctioned for most of human history. Chattel slavery--the legal ownership of one person by another--was its most common form. Gradually, and especially in the 19th century, the growing condemnation of chattel slavery and ...
Iraq: the way ahead: remarks at the Newberry College Honors Convocation, Newberry, South Carolina, 8 November 2007.(INSIGHTS)
Jan 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Introduction Last year at this Honors Convocation, I discussed the national strategy that produced the current situation we now face in Iraq. What I didn't do then was explain how to best resolve the Iraqi dilemma. Today, then, I'll describe ...
An-Safwan, OIF 1, 2003.(Poem)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Pre> An-Safwan, OIF 1, 2003 Beggars on the highway,Children in the street,Bandits only ten years old,No shoes on their feet.Iraqi border townOvercome by warWe ride HUMVEEs sideways,With guns out the door."Close that distance up!" ...