December 2005 Issue
The sun also rises
Until recently, the U.S.-Japan alliance has been little more than a Cold War relic. The main issue of discussion — other than economic and trade — has been how rapidly and...
Until recently, the U.S.-Japan alliance has been little more than a Cold War relic. The main issue of discussion — other than economic and trade — has been how rapidly and...
Transforming the alliance
While the American public and most policymakers have fixated on the war in Iraq, and Asian hands flagellate themselves over the rise of China, the Bush administration has been quietly and...
By Christopher Griffin
While the American public and most policymakers have fixated on the war in Iraq, and Asian hands flagellate themselves over the rise of China, the Bush administration has been quietly and...
By Christopher Griffin
What the Japanese military needs
As Japan’s Self-Defense Forces prepare to respond to the challenges of operating in a combined way with U.S. forces, the question of whether Japan’s own military services can...
By Adm. Hideaki Kaneda (ret.)
As Japan’s Self-Defense Forces prepare to respond to the challenges of operating in a combined way with U.S. forces, the question of whether Japan’s own military services can...
By Adm. Hideaki Kaneda (ret.)
What the United States wants
There is no issue in American long-range strategic policy that exceeds in importance the question of the United States’ relationship with Japan. It is the only one of America’s...
By Aaron Friedberg
There is no issue in American long-range strategic policy that exceeds in importance the question of the United States’ relationship with Japan. It is the only one of America’s...
By Aaron Friedberg
Know your enemy
As the “war against Islamic radicalism” — President Bush’s new designation for what used to be the war on terrorism — enters its fourth year, it is unmistakably...
As the “war against Islamic radicalism” — President Bush’s new designation for what used to be the war on terrorism — enters its fourth year, it is unmistakably...
Osama bin Laden: a ‘worthy enemy’
America is engaged in a war of survival against an enemy unlike any our country has fought. We have been so engaged for the best part of a decade, and yet we have not begun to understand our...
By Michael Scheuer
America is engaged in a war of survival against an enemy unlike any our country has fought. We have been so engaged for the best part of a decade, and yet we have not begun to understand our...
By Michael Scheuer
A split on strategy?
On Oct. 11 the White House released a translation of a communiqué from al-Qaida’s second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, to the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The...
By Tom Donnelly
On Oct. 11 the White House released a translation of a communiqué from al-Qaida’s second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, to the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The...
By Tom Donnelly
Price break
U.S. Congress has set its sights on cutting what it perceives to be alarming rises in weapon costs. The head of the House Armed Services Committee is leading a campaign to force the U.S....
By William Matthews
U.S. Congress has set its sights on cutting what it perceives to be alarming rises in weapon costs. The head of the House Armed Services Committee is leading a campaign to force the U.S....
By William Matthews
Spec ops Marines
The Marine Corps, for two decades the only service that was not part of U.S. Special Operations Command, plans to establish a SOCom unit to deploy alongside Navy SEALs, Army Special Forces...
By Christian Lowe
The Marine Corps, for two decades the only service that was not part of U.S. Special Operations Command, plans to establish a SOCom unit to deploy alongside Navy SEALs, Army Special Forces...
By Christian Lowe
Finesse trumps firepower
It is sometimes said of Americans that they have high hopes for the future and little sense of the past. When you look at what long memories have done for places like Iraq, maybe that...
By Loren Thompson
It is sometimes said of Americans that they have high hopes for the future and little sense of the past. When you look at what long memories have done for places like Iraq, maybe that...
By Loren Thompson
The Air Force’s ‘Big Five’
During the Reagan military buildup of the 1980s, the Army made impressive progress in its modernization efforts by identifying its five most important new programs, and never missing an...
During the Reagan military buildup of the 1980s, the Army made impressive progress in its modernization efforts by identifying its five most important new programs, and never missing an...
The sleeping service
If any service is out of sight and out of mind in our present wars, it’s the Navy. Even our Air Force, which has made almost every wrong decision it could, is more visible in our...
By Ralph Peters
If any service is out of sight and out of mind in our present wars, it’s the Navy. Even our Air Force, which has made almost every wrong decision it could, is more visible in our...
By Ralph Peters
Hearts & minds model?
Last month AFJ took a look inside Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan, and Vance Serchuk pronounced these joint civilian-military efforts to be a key to winning the hearts and...
By Robert Perito
Last month AFJ took a look inside Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan, and Vance Serchuk pronounced these joint civilian-military efforts to be a key to winning the hearts and...
By Robert Perito
The ‘who’ question
The many defense reviews of the post-Cold-War era, beginning with the first Bush administration’s “Base Force” plan, have couched themselves in the language of...
By TOM Donnelly
The many defense reviews of the post-Cold-War era, beginning with the first Bush administration’s “Base Force” plan, have couched themselves in the language of...
By TOM Donnelly
In this issue
Aaron Friedberg (“What the United States wants”) is professor of politics and international affairs at the Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School. He is the author of...
Aaron Friedberg (“What the United States wants”) is professor of politics and international affairs at the Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School. He is the author of...
To Sen. John McCain Even before the president spoke out, the senator from Arizona helped to slow the rush of public opinion toward retreat from Iraq. Whatever effect the senator’s speeches and press...
To the Bush administration For — whoops! — losing a senior al-Qaida operative, who apparently broke out of Bagram prison in Afghanistan this summer. The escape of Omar al-Farouq, one of Osama bin...
To Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor For speaking out clearly — if quietly — on detainee policy. Speaking several weeks ago at West Point, retiring Justice O’Connor allowed that the Geneva Conventions might...
To Sens. James Talent and Joseph Lieberman For adding an amendment to the defense authorization bill recommending that the Air Force purchase additional C-17 cargo aircraft. The C-17 buy has been artificially capped at 180 aircraft...
To the Taiwanese legislature’s defense committee For voting down funds to purchase Patriot PAC-III missile defense systems and P-3C Orion submarine-hunting aircraft. The Legislative Yuan, controlled by Taiwan’s long-time ruling party...
Land power revisionism
Readers who wonder why the joint force remains handcuffed by parochialism and a chronic shortage of trust need only read “The shape of brigades to come” in the October issue to...
Readers who wonder why the joint force remains handcuffed by parochialism and a chronic shortage of trust need only read “The shape of brigades to come” in the October issue to...
Write at your own risk
Ralph Peters believes that senior Army leadership encourages written criticism from its junior leaders (“Fighting and writing,” October). I wonder what Army he served in. The...
Ralph Peters believes that senior Army leadership encourages written criticism from its junior leaders (“Fighting and writing,” October). I wonder what Army he served in. The...
Unfortunate parallels
While reading “Occupation 101” by Ralph Peters in the September issue, I was struck by the sad parallels between planning for the occupation of Iraq and planning for Hurricane...
While reading “Occupation 101” by Ralph Peters in the September issue, I was struck by the sad parallels between planning for the occupation of Iraq and planning for Hurricane...
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