For his character reference letter supporting convicted White House aide Scooter Libby.

In his May 21 letter to U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton ahead of Libby’s sentencing, Pace wrote that in national …

DoD needs to clearly explain Internet-access rules

The military and the milbloggers have settled into a predictable, if not altogether comfortable pattern: A new regulation is issued to provide greater official control …

For his surprise proposal to integrate the Gabala radar system, which Russia leases in Azerbaijan, into the U.S. missile defense system. After the highly contentious spat that escalated between Russia and the …

Criticizing mistakes of a few generals is unfair to the majority

As a career Army officer, I found many elements of Lt. Col. Paul Yingling’s assessment of our general officers’ leadership to …

“Every soldier, sailor and airman a node in the network” is the type of phrase bandied around in industry marketing materials and Pentagon briefings and, often as not, repeated in defense magazines, …

China’s effort to “informatize” its society demonstrates that no one has a monoply on the coining of nonwords.

Send nonword nominations to Jack Wittman at jwittman@atpco.com. …

The ubiquitous nature of data and technology, which transforms every soldier and pilot into a node in a network-centric environment, is irreparably changing existing leadership models for the military.

Until recently, collection …

The ever-growing access to information up and down the chain of command is changing leadership models. If information means power, then the soldier has never been more empowered. On the other hand, …

J. Michael Waller’s “Fighting the War of Ideas Like a Real War” is on target [“Word’s worth,” Book Review, May]. To borrow some recent advice in fighting insurgencies, cultural knowledge is a …

Argument fails to make case objectively and unemotionally

One of the biggest dangers to anyone who criticizes senior leaders within an organization is to lose objectivity to emotion. This is the primary …