From the archives: August 4, 1945

Japanese Ships Hit Minefields

Japanese shipping is now beginning to feel the intensity of minefield operations planted through the ingenuity and cooperation of the United States …

What it will take to fix the Army

By Daniel L. Davis

The U.S. Army’s generals, as a group, have lost the ability to effectively function at the high level required of …

Rapid technological change sinks the case for big, costly platforms

The aircraft carrier is under attack — if not literally, then at least by defense thinkers who believe the Navy needs to …

Combat fitness standards should promote coolness under fire over physical strength

In March, the commandant of the Marine Corps laid out his perspective on women’s potential service in the infantry. Quoted in …

In your June issue, Col. (Dr.) Arthur Eisenbrey suggests that the Department of Defense tackle the issue of greater consolidation of military medical forces [“Unified medical command: An old idea whose time …

With this issue, we celebrate 150 years of continuous publication of Armed Forces Journal and lay out the path ahead.

It is fair to say that the military enterprise has seen more …

The Air Force’s science and technology vision for a complex future

Demographic, technological and military trends will make the global domains in which the Air Force operates increasingly complex, competitive, congested and …

To Congress for reining in the proliferation of service-specific uniform designs.

Over the past decade, taxpayers and service members alike have been treated to a seemingly never-ending series of service-specific tweaks and …

To the Air Force for not yet getting it about sexual assault.

It would be easy enough to dock the air service for managing to appoint an officer to run its sexual-assault …

Lessons from the last time a superpower departed

Lt. Col. Shane A. Smith

Is Afghanistan’s government doomed to fall soon after most NATO forces leave in 2014, as many in the government, …