Features include:
Jack-of-all-trades (September 2007)
The Littoral Combat Ship is most appealing because of its sophisticated transformational capabilities — as envisioned, it is a unique capability addition to the fleet. Yet, it is the...
BY CMDR. JOHN PATCH
Eating soup with a spoon (September 2007)
The Army's new manual on counterinsurgency operations (COIN), in many respects, is a superb piece of doctrinal writing. The manual, FM 3-24 "Counterinsurgency," is comparable in...
BY LT. COL. GIAN P. GENTILE
The Air Force at 60 (September 2007)
At the B-52's rollout ceremony in 1954, then-Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Nathan Twining described it as the long rifle of the air age. It was natural for Twining, an infantryman before...
Two decades of decay (September 2007)
The Air Force begins its sixth decade in circumstances that aviators elsewhere might consider enviable: unrivaled for global air dominance. But that is not the way Air Force leaders view...
BY LOREN THOMPSON
The dual-role dilemma (September 2007)
The Air Force finds itself at an unwelcome and unexpected crisis at its 60th birthday. Although the service is tremendously successful at its core capacities, as demonstrated in a series of...
BY CHRISTOPHER GRIFFIN
Flashpoint: No bungle in the jungle (September 2007)
Whether you agree with it or not, it's likely there will be some changes to the current size and shape of U.S. forces in Iraq over the next year. For reasons from the political to the...
BY PETER BROOKES
Building resilience (September 2007)
A pair of books build on Jared Diamond's warning in "Collapse" that rigid social structures and environmental mismanagement combined to destroy a society from within. Both share...
BY FRANK G. HOFFMAN
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