November 2007 Issue
Support grows for standing up an unconventional warfare command
An idea that wouldn’t die may be getting a new lease on life. Despite years of the idea being shot down at the highest levels, there are again growing calls from inside and outside the...
BY SEAN D. NAYLOR
An idea that wouldn’t die may be getting a new lease on life. Despite years of the idea being shot down at the highest levels, there are again growing calls from inside and outside the...
BY SEAN D. NAYLOR
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Profoundly insightful piece. This is precisely the type of examination that is regularly dismissed in the Pentagon both before and after the fact. It directly addresses multiple specific...
Profoundly insightful piece. This is precisely the type of examination that is regularly dismissed in the Pentagon both before and after the fact. It directly addresses multiple specific...
To Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne For beating a $100 bil¬lion funding request drum without demonstrating that the service is serious about giving up its wanna-haves and prioritizing the must-haves.
To House Armed Services Committee chairman Ike Skelton, D-Mo. For holding a hearing on the too-long-overlooked security threat posed by Pakistan.
To the State Department For its belated and hypocritical attempt to apply proper oversight of private security contractors. The public brouhaha stirred by the September Blackwater shootings in Iraq was a wake-up...
Risking critique
Openly critiquing one’s boss or his concepts is dicey. Such criticism carries risk and requires wisdom, as well as courage, to successfully transmit a controver¬sial but important...
BY COL. ALLEN BATSCHELET, MAJ. BARRY HAFER AND MAJ. MIKE RUNEY
Openly critiquing one’s boss or his concepts is dicey. Such criticism carries risk and requires wisdom, as well as courage, to successfully transmit a controver¬sial but important...
BY COL. ALLEN BATSCHELET, MAJ. BARRY HAFER AND MAJ. MIKE RUNEY
Robots on the battlefield
In Afghanistan and Iraq, “battle bots” are spying, patrolling, securing and even “dying” in combat. Soldiers give their scout robots names, honorary...
In Afghanistan and Iraq, “battle bots” are spying, patrolling, securing and even “dying” in combat. Soldiers give their scout robots names, honorary...
Flashpoint: Arms racing
Instability in Iraq, sectarian violence, Islamic extremism, ethnic rivalries, the rise of Iran and questions about America’s long-term commitment to the region are making for a Middle...
By Peter Brookes
Instability in Iraq, sectarian violence, Islamic extremism, ethnic rivalries, the rise of Iran and questions about America’s long-term commitment to the region are making for a Middle...
By Peter Brookes
In this issue
People love robots, and AFJ editors are no exception. So when we started on this issue’s cover package, the temptation to create our own virtual battle bot was irresistible. AFJ artist...
People love robots, and AFJ editors are no exception. So when we started on this issue’s cover package, the temptation to create our own virtual battle bot was irresistible. AFJ artist...
The dogmas of war
There is an ensconced narrative of the Iraq war within the American military and print media that is hypercritical of the counterinsurgency part of the Army’s conduct of the war over...
BY LT. COL. GIAN P. GENTILE
There is an ensconced narrative of the Iraq war within the American military and print media that is hypercritical of the counterinsurgency part of the Army’s conduct of the war over...
BY LT. COL. GIAN P. GENTILE
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