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Let us be clear as spring water: We welcome the Defense Department’s effort to replace toxic cleaners and solvents with kinder, gentler ones made from plants. We just wish it came with …

Do we yet understand the nature of the “Long War” for the future of the Middle East?

President Bush thinks he does. Speaking to the Military Officers Association in early September, he …

Expansion plans leave many in Army Special Forces uneasy

The impending expansion of Army special operations forces laid out in this year’s Quadrennial Defense Review is spreading waves of unease throughout the …

Air Force Maj. Gen. Charles Dunlap’s essay on air power, “America’s asymmetric advantage,” in the September AFJ was a blast from the past — a throwback to the days before Goldwater-Nichols, when …

For dissolving its Office of Force Transformation. OFT’s lofty and sometimes intangible mission certainly had its critics and naysayers. But the vision it was charged with creating and promoting provided the Defense …

Is doctrine too rigid for the adaptive thinking needed to win the war we fight today, or did decades of relative peace cause us to drift from war-fighting fundamentals? This debate over …

We put an Army on the battlefield that I had been a part of for 37 years. It doesn’t have any doctrine, nor was it educated and trained, to deal with an …

Mining the military bureaucracy for nuggets of humor

If patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, the long history of military humor proves that satire may well be the last refuge …

For crafting a thoughtful alternative bill to the White House plan for new legislation on how to treat and prosecute terror suspects.

The Supreme Court established in June that Common Article 3 …

For their empty response to Washington’s call for more troops in Afghanistan. An urgent meeting at the alliance’s headquarters in Brussels attempted to drum up 2,500 extra troops in southern Afghanistan. The …