September 2009 Issue
Limits to civilian authority?
In accordance with our nation’s Constitution, military leadership is rightfully subordinate to civilian authority. For that reason, the Constitution divides military power between the...
BY CMDR. PAT PATERSON (Ret.)
In accordance with our nation’s Constitution, military leadership is rightfully subordinate to civilian authority. For that reason, the Constitution divides military power between the...
BY CMDR. PAT PATERSON (Ret.)
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For all the unknowns and disparate views on how best to secure cyberspace, the one point of universal consensus is that a public-private partnership is essential to success.
For all the unknowns and disparate views on how best to secure cyberspace, the one point of universal consensus is that a public-private partnership is essential to success.
Technology’s limits
Leadership, in its purest sense, is a human-to-human interaction. For our armed forces to remain the best in the world, it must remain a people-centered profession. We throw up this...
By Lt. Col. Joe Doty, Maj. T.J. O’connor and Maj. Joe Gelineau
Leadership, in its purest sense, is a human-to-human interaction. For our armed forces to remain the best in the world, it must remain a people-centered profession. We throw up this...
By Lt. Col. Joe Doty, Maj. T.J. O’connor and Maj. Joe Gelineau
Defending the new Silk Road
The Internet of today is not the Internet of years past. It is an evolving entity that has a taken on a life of its own. When most Americans refer to the Internet, they refer to a mythic...
By Bryce L. Meyer
The Internet of today is not the Internet of years past. It is an evolving entity that has a taken on a life of its own. When most Americans refer to the Internet, they refer to a mythic...
By Bryce L. Meyer
The role of a ‘cyber czar’
While cybersecurity has been much in the news lately, the magnitude of the problem is still greatly underestimated and significantly misunderstood, particularly around theft of intellectual...
BY STANTON SLOANE
While cybersecurity has been much in the news lately, the magnitude of the problem is still greatly underestimated and significantly misunderstood, particularly around theft of intellectual...
BY STANTON SLOANE
Know thy enemy
The concept of cyberwarfare is not new. It started to creep into the mainstream media because of repeated attacks on military and economic computer infrastructures in countries around the...
By Maj. Richard Davenport
The concept of cyberwarfare is not new. It started to creep into the mainstream media because of repeated attacks on military and economic computer infrastructures in countries around the...
By Maj. Richard Davenport
Data bombs away
“The advent of cyberwarfare, which can go straight to the vital centers and either neutralize or destroy them, has put a completely new complexion on the old systems of making war. It...
BY JOHN OSTERHOLZ
“The advent of cyberwarfare, which can go straight to the vital centers and either neutralize or destroy them, has put a completely new complexion on the old systems of making war. It...
BY JOHN OSTERHOLZ
The people problem
During the presidential campaign, Democratic candidate Barack Obama promised that, if elected, he would “place people first” in his defense priorities, crafting benefits to ease...
By Loren Thompson
During the presidential campaign, Democratic candidate Barack Obama promised that, if elected, he would “place people first” in his defense priorities, crafting benefits to ease...
By Loren Thompson
Endangered species
In his article “Lowering risk,” [AFJ, July-August] Phillip Meilinger made the valid but largely disbelieved point that air power is the least destructive major force element...
By Gene Myers
In his article “Lowering risk,” [AFJ, July-August] Phillip Meilinger made the valid but largely disbelieved point that air power is the least destructive major force element...
By Gene Myers
Air power’s limits
I read Phillip Meilinger’s article “Lowering risk: Air power can reduce civilian casualties” [AFJ, July-August] with great interest. I then re-read it with great alarm. I...
By Lt. Col. Mike Grice
I read Phillip Meilinger’s article “Lowering risk: Air power can reduce civilian casualties” [AFJ, July-August] with great interest. I then re-read it with great alarm. I...
By Lt. Col. Mike Grice
Transition Strategy: Pakistan in Wonderland
Pakistan is a troubled ally. Its biggest trouble, however, is that Pakistan does not see itself as the root cause of much of its own troubles. Indeed, the Pakistani political elite are...
By Joseph J.Collins
Pakistan is a troubled ally. Its biggest trouble, however, is that Pakistan does not see itself as the root cause of much of its own troubles. Indeed, the Pakistani political elite are...
By Joseph J.Collins
Industry Pulse: The crowded skies
Defense Secretary Robert Gates wants a lot more of them. Boeing has created a new defense unit to make them. EADS wants to get into the business. And so do any number of other companies here...
By Scott Hamilton
Defense Secretary Robert Gates wants a lot more of them. Boeing has created a new defense unit to make them. EADS wants to get into the business. And so do any number of other companies here...
By Scott Hamilton
Congressional bomb To the House Appropriations Committee, for killing study funds that would be crucial to the development of a refurbished thermonuclear bomb. The White House requested the study, but the...
Congressional sense To Congress, for ultimately voting to kill funds that would have extended the F-22 fighter production line. It was a long, tough fight, but eventually the Senate Armed Services Committee...
Cybervoid To the White House for a dismal start to its cybersecurity campaign. When President Barack Obama pledged in May “to deter, prevent, detect and defend against attacks” and make...
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I found myself thinking about what I think the future holds and which of the four categories I fit into, and which of my own assumptions needed to be challenged. While Hoffman doesn’t...
I found myself thinking about what I think the future holds and which of the four categories I fit into, and which of my own assumptions needed to be challenged. While Hoffman doesn’t...
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