Military Review: November – December 2008 Issue
Since 1922, Military Review has provided a forum for the open exchange of ideas on military affairs. Subsequently, publications have proliferated throughout the Army education system that specialize either in tactical issues associated with particular Branches or on strategic issues at the Senior Service School level. Bridging these two levels of intellectual inquiry, Military Review focuses on research and analysis of the concepts, doctrine and principles of warfighting between the tactical and operational levels of war.
Military Review is a refereed journal that provides a forum for original thought and debate on the art and science of land warfare and other issues of current interest to the US Army and the Department of Defense. Military Review also supports the education, training, doctrine development and integration missions of the Combined Arms Center (CAC), Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Military Review is printed bimonthly in English, Spanish and Portuguese and is distributed to readers in more than 100 countries. It is also printed in Arabic on a quarterly basis. Widely quoted and reprinted throughout the world, it is a readily available reference at most military and civilian university libraries and research agencies.
Here is the November – December 2008 lineup:
Enable from Overwatch: MNF-Iraq by General Raymond T. Odierno, U.S. Army
The MNF-Iraq commander’s operating guidance emphasizes “how we think,” “how we operate,” and “who we are.”
The Strategy of Protracted People’s War: Uganda by Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, President of the Republic of Uganda
President Museveni presents thoughts and observations on the future of Africa and the moral factor in revolutionary warfare.
Rethinking IO: Complex Operations in the Information Age by Brigadier General Huba Wass de Czege, U.S. Army Retired
The Army lacks dexterity with war’s moral domain. Today’s highly complex conflicts demand recovering a holistic approach.
Irregular Warfare Information Operations: Understanding the Role of People, Capabilities, and Effects by Lieutenant Colonel Norman E. Emery, U.S. Army
Current operating environments require balancing IO efforts against the enemy with those efforts intended to influence populations.
Georgia: The War Russia Lost by Stephen J. Blank, Ph.D.
The Strategic Studies Institute’s expert on the Soviet bloc and the post-Soviet world examines the ramifications of Russia’s recent posturing.
China’s Electronic Long-Range Reconnaissance by Lieutenant Colonel Timothy L. Thomas, U.S. Army Retired
China’s ongoing use of “patriotic hackers” may represent electronic reconnaissance for putting cyber-war theory into practice.
On Metaphors We are Led By by Colonel Christopher R. Paparone, Ph.D., U.S. Army Retired
Caring for mild traumatic brain injury is challenging for the military and the Department of Veterans Affairs. Sports medicine’s “best practices” can revolutionize treatment of such injuries for Soldiers.
Sociocultural Expertise and the Military: Beyond the Controversy by Pauline Kusiak, Ph.D.
While using academics for military ethnographic analysis may be controversial, it can foster better security.
Revisiting Modern Warfare: Counterinsurgency in the Mada’in Qadaby by Lieutenant Colonel David G. Fivecoat, U.S. Army, and Captain Aaron T. Schwengler, U.S. Army
French Colonel Roger Trinquier’s 1964 book Modern Warfare has relevant lessons for 21st-century counterinsurgency.
How Jesse James, the Telegraph, and the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 Can Help the Army Win the War on Terrorism by Peter E. Kunkel, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller)
History teaches that a cashless battlefield can translate into less violence and a quicker restoration of stability.
Planning Full Spectrum Operations: Implications of FM 3-0 on Planning Doctrine by Major Glenn A. Henke, U.S. Army
Phasing military operations has proven to be a defunct heuristic for effectively meshing logical lines of operations in COIN.
Relooking Unit Cohesion: A Sensemaking Approach by Major Geoff van Epps, U.S. Army
With the days of Army COHORT units more than two decades past, cohesion has become an afterthought.
Reconstruction: A Damaging Fantasy? by Amitai Etzioni, George Washington University
If we cannot put our own house in order, is it realistic to think we can do it for another country, especially when that country’s culture is significantly different?
Contemporary readings for the professional.