March 2012 Issue
Honor, not law
In January, during the final court-martial arising from the 2005 killings of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha, a Los Angeles Times article quoted several military law experts who said the...
By lt. Gabriel Bradley
In January, during the final court-martial arising from the 2005 killings of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha, a Los Angeles Times article quoted several military law experts who said the...
By lt. Gabriel Bradley
A new kind of warfare
On Jan. 16, Gelareh Bagherzadeh, a 30-year-old Iranian medical student, was shot and killed while sitting in her car outside her parents’ home in Houston. Neighbors heard three quick...
By ROBERT KILLEBREW
On Jan. 16, Gelareh Bagherzadeh, a 30-year-old Iranian medical student, was shot and killed while sitting in her car outside her parents’ home in Houston. Neighbors heard three quick...
By ROBERT KILLEBREW
Searching for a strategy
The Defense Department faces cuts of at least $465 billion — and maybe twice that staggering sum — over the next decade. Experts have offered various ways to reduce manpower or...
By Joseph J. Collins
The Defense Department faces cuts of at least $465 billion — and maybe twice that staggering sum — over the next decade. Experts have offered various ways to reduce manpower or...
By Joseph J. Collins
In this issue
It’s often useful to look around and see how other services approach a problem. Army Maj. Jim Tierney went through the Marine Corps’ Foreign Weapons Instructor Course and emerged...
It’s often useful to look around and see how other services approach a problem. Army Maj. Jim Tierney went through the Marine Corps’ Foreign Weapons Instructor Course and emerged...
Our monolingual Air Force
When I was an Air Force ROTC cadet, we were graced with a guest speaker and alumnus who had been lucky enough to find himself in the Air Force’s virtually unknown foreign area officer...
By Capt. John Wright
When I was an Air Force ROTC cadet, we were graced with a guest speaker and alumnus who had been lucky enough to find himself in the Air Force’s virtually unknown foreign area officer...
By Capt. John Wright
What DoD can do for academia
In November’s Armed Forces Journal, Chris Rohlfs, in “What academia can do for DoD,” said the Defense Department would do well to outsource its data mining and analysis...
By Capt. John McRae
In November’s Armed Forces Journal, Chris Rohlfs, in “What academia can do for DoD,” said the Defense Department would do well to outsource its data mining and analysis...
By Capt. John McRae
Know thy enemy’s weapons
It’s time the Army started providing soldiers with formal training on the foreign weapons most commonly used either by the enemy or by friendly host-nation military and police forces....
By MAJ. JIM TIERNEY
It’s time the Army started providing soldiers with formal training on the foreign weapons most commonly used either by the enemy or by friendly host-nation military and police forces....
By MAJ. JIM TIERNEY
Monetary misdirection TO DoD FOR INDULGING IN AN OLD HABIT: shifting known, predictable expenses from the base budget to the supplemental fund — er, overseas contingency operations account — to mask...
Women warriors TO THE MILITARY LEADERSHIP DIVERSITY COMMISSION for its women-in-combat-jobs report, which acknowledges that female troops have been serving in harm’s way for years, and recognizes...
Naming miscue TO NAVY SECRETARY RAY MABUS for ignoring policy and tradition by naming a U.S. warship for former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz. The Navy’s one-time taboo against naming ships for...
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