Operational reserve
America’s all-volunteer force is a precious, and heavily worked, asset. The challenge lies in how to preserve it through long conflicts. Part of the answer lies in a blended active and reserve force.
A continuum of service
We must determine whether the National Guard and reserve can be an operational reserve on a steady cycle of deployments...
By Lt. Gen. Dennis M. McCarthy (Ret.)
We must determine whether the National Guard and reserve can be an operational reserve on a steady cycle of deployments...
By Lt. Gen. Dennis M. McCarthy (Ret.)
Mobilizing the Army Guard
Since Sept. 11, 2001, the Army National Guard has called more than 400,000 soldiers to active duty to support...
By Lt. Col. Erich Randall
Since Sept. 11, 2001, the Army National Guard has called more than 400,000 soldiers to active duty to support...
By Lt. Col. Erich Randall
Essay
By Cora Sol Goldstein - “Defense Secretary Robert Gates recently launched the Minerva Consortia, an initiative meant to involve American research universities in the global war on terrorism. The Defense Department and other government agencies will provide financial support to social scientists working...”
DARTS & LAURELS
Cold comfortTO THE AIR FORCE, for its plan to spend $7.6 million on so-called “comfort capsules” to ferry senior officials aboard transport planes. Even if you buy the Air Force’s...
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”MEL1776” COMMENTS ON MAJ. DAVID F. BIGELOW’S “MANAGING MANPOWER” ARTICLE, JUNE AFJ (http://www.armedforces journal.com/2008/06/3486514)
”MEL1776” COMMENTS ON MAJ. DAVID F. BIGELOW’S “MANAGING MANPOWER” ARTICLE, JUNE AFJ (http://www.armedforces journal.com/2008/06/3486514)
COMMENTARY
Perspectives
BRENDA FARRELL
The Defense Department faces daunting responsibilities to meet military personnel requirements, just as it did in past periods of extended military operations, and it finds itself in a position of having to respond to needs by employing a number of financial incentives and programs, sometimes very...
BRENDA FARRELL
The Defense Department faces daunting responsibilities to meet military personnel requirements, just as it did in past periods of extended military operations, and it finds itself in a position of having to respond to needs by employing a number of financial incentives and programs, sometimes very...
Perspectives
Col. Peter R. Marksteiner
Indeed, according to the principles of network attack under Joint Publication 3-13, “Information Operations (IO),” anything that degrades or denies information or the way information is processed and acted upon constitutes an IO threat. That same publication cautions military leaders to...
Col. Peter R. Marksteiner
Indeed, according to the principles of network attack under Joint Publication 3-13, “Information Operations (IO),” anything that degrades or denies information or the way information is processed and acted upon constitutes an IO threat. That same publication cautions military leaders to...
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Destroyer flip-flop
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Audacious blueprint
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