February 2010 Issue
In this issue
Our cover story this month touches a nerve that has pulsated, barely hidden, through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq: The health and robustness of our civil-military relations. Public...
Our cover story this month touches a nerve that has pulsated, barely hidden, through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq: The health and robustness of our civil-military relations. Public...
Flashpoint: Yemen: Who knew?
In the days after the foiled Christmas Day attack on a Detroit-bound airliner, some were quick to call for a new front in the war on terror, this time in Yemen, where the Nigerian-born...
In the days after the foiled Christmas Day attack on a Detroit-bound airliner, some were quick to call for a new front in the war on terror, this time in Yemen, where the Nigerian-born...
The Founders’ wisdom
The U.S. faces a number of difficult challenges in civil-military relations that carry with them profound effects on our national security. Among these issues are declining popular support...
BY LT. COL. PAUL L. YINGLING
The U.S. faces a number of difficult challenges in civil-military relations that carry with them profound effects on our national security. Among these issues are declining popular support...
BY LT. COL. PAUL L. YINGLING
What civil-military crisis?
More than 15 years after Gen. Colin Powell’s tour as chairman of the Joint Chiefs, pundits and scholars are again worried about cocky generals “playing politics.” For his...
BY JOSEPH J. COLLINS
More than 15 years after Gen. Colin Powell’s tour as chairman of the Joint Chiefs, pundits and scholars are again worried about cocky generals “playing politics.” For his...
BY JOSEPH J. COLLINS
An alternative to COIN
The U.S. military is a dominant fighting force, capable of rapid global power projection and able to defeat state adversaries quickly and at relatively low cost in American lives and...
BY BERNARD I. FINEL
The U.S. military is a dominant fighting force, capable of rapid global power projection and able to defeat state adversaries quickly and at relatively low cost in American lives and...
BY BERNARD I. FINEL
Fifth sense
Retired Col. Thomas Ehrhard, in his Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments study “An Air Force Strategy for the Long Haul,” wrote that the U.S. faces three primary...
BY GENE MYERS
Retired Col. Thomas Ehrhard, in his Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments study “An Air Force Strategy for the Long Haul,” wrote that the U.S. faces three primary...
BY GENE MYERS
Fifth fight
What defines a fighter jet as fifth-generation is the focus of much political wrangling, tussles over jobs and disputes between Europe and America.
What defines a fighter jet as fifth-generation is the focus of much political wrangling, tussles over jobs and disputes between Europe and America.
Essay: The lone wolf and his pack
The term “lone wolf” was popularized in the 1990s to refer to an extremist who acts alone to avoid incriminating others. American extremists are often lone wolves, and many of...
BY LT. COL. EUGENIA K. GUILMARTIN
The term “lone wolf” was popularized in the 1990s to refer to an extremist who acts alone to avoid incriminating others. American extremists are often lone wolves, and many of...
BY LT. COL. EUGENIA K. GUILMARTIN
Essay: One size doesn’t fit all
In “A vehicle for modern times [December/January AFJ],” by retired Maj. Gen. Robert Scales, the call for a Ground Combat Vehicle universal carrier is buoyed by a presumed...
MAJ. JOE EWERS
In “A vehicle for modern times [December/January AFJ],” by retired Maj. Gen. Robert Scales, the call for a Ground Combat Vehicle universal carrier is buoyed by a presumed...
MAJ. JOE EWERS
Dover haven TO THE AIR FORCE for establishing a center at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware where families can wait to receive the remains of loved ones killed in war. Every service member killed in war...
Pregnant pause TO MAJ. GEN. ANTHONY CUCOLO for his well-intentioned but poorly thought-out directive to court-martial any soldier in his command who gets pregnant or who impregnates a fellow soldier. Not...
Google vs. China TO GOOGLE for its faceoff with China over cyber attacks. Google senior management took the highly unusual step in January of telling China it would no longer continue censoring its results...
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