August 2006 Issue
To William Marshall Of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Marshall wrote an op-ed in the July 5 Washington Post complaining about “weapons in space.” Not only was his timing poor —...
To the U.S. Supreme Court For its ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, limiting presidential powers to place detainees at the Guantanamo facility before military tribunals. The central issue in the matter is not the...
To the Supreme Court For its decision in the Hamdan v. Rumsfeld case. As correct as the court was to limit executive “emergency” powers as a matter of U.S. law, its introduction of Article 3 of the...
The undecided continent
frica has suffered many curses, from massive corruption to AIDS to dysfunctional borders drawn by cynical Europeans. Oppression, illiteracy, deadly ethnic and religious rivalries —...
By Ralph Peters
frica has suffered many curses, from massive corruption to AIDS to dysfunctional borders drawn by cynical Europeans. Oppression, illiteracy, deadly ethnic and religious rivalries —...
By Ralph Peters
The fleet we need
We require for the guidance of our naval policy something of a wider vision than the current conception of naval strategy, something that will keep before our eyes not merely the enemy...
BY FRANK HOFFMAN
We require for the guidance of our naval policy something of a wider vision than the current conception of naval strategy, something that will keep before our eyes not merely the enemy...
BY FRANK HOFFMAN
A better war in Iraq
“Fighting an irregular war is an extremely difficult conversion for any regular army, even a superpower.”
By Lt. Col. John A. Nagl
“Fighting an irregular war is an extremely difficult conversion for any regular army, even a superpower.”
By Lt. Col. John A. Nagl
America’s adventure
The struggle for Iraq is, even as the fighting continues, a struggle to shape history; how Iraq is understood and remembered may be as strategically important as any other facet of the...
The struggle for Iraq is, even as the fighting continues, a struggle to shape history; how Iraq is understood and remembered may be as strategically important as any other facet of the...
“Fiasco”
By the winter of 2003-04, the Marine Corps was ordered to head back to Iraq to lend a hand. Its units would replace the Army in one of the toughest parts of the country, al Anbar province,...
By Thomas E. Ricks
By the winter of 2003-04, the Marine Corps was ordered to head back to Iraq to lend a hand. Its units would replace the Army in one of the toughest parts of the country, al Anbar province,...
By Thomas E. Ricks
Long-distance affair
If the experience of the past five years means anything, it is that the Long War for the greater Middle East is most likely to be fought at close range, whether the mission is combat,...
By Tom Donnelly
If the experience of the past five years means anything, it is that the Long War for the greater Middle East is most likely to be fought at close range, whether the mission is combat,...
By Tom Donnelly
In this issue
This month’s issue of AFJ concentrates on the “war in words”; that is, how Operation Iraqi Freedom has begun to be recorded by history, or at least history as it...
ARMED FORCES JOURNAL
This month’s issue of AFJ concentrates on the “war in words”; that is, how Operation Iraqi Freedom has begun to be recorded by history, or at least history as it...
ARMED FORCES JOURNAL
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