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The failure of U.S.-led forces to forge a stable Afghan state with robust security forces in a two-decades-long civil-military effort is only the most recent of a series of foreign [...]

It is relatively easy to examine past strategies and evaluate whether they were successful; it is much more difficult to evaluate current and proposed strategies to determine whether they are [...]

Earlier this year, West Point's Defense and Strategic Studies Program invited me to participate in a panel discussion on the future of warfare. For historians, and particularly for Vietnam War [...]

MILITARY AND GOVERNMENT leaders at the strategic, operational, and tactical level often struggle to fuse design theory with military planning procedures and doctrine. (1) In the field, the office, and [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Since war contains a host of interactions, since the whole series of engagements is, strictly speaking, linked together, since in every victory there is a culminating point beyond [...]

A SUCCESSFUL NUCLEAR attack by terrorists would be catastrophic. Intense fears of nuclear terrorism have led to a search for a perfect defense: destroying all terrorist groups that threaten the [...]

The media is loaded with coverage of the international crisis over Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program. The 24/7 news cycle is focused on the latest tit-for-tat in the West's ineffective [...]

The Pentagon released a new unified command plan (UCP) on April 17. It is contained in a classified document that defines military command structure and apportions responsibilities for global operations [...]

It is hard to gauge precisely when the current American revolution in military affairs began. It was clearly underway by the mid-1990s. Within the Pentagon, the Director of Net Assessment, [...]

Allied Force, the most intense and sustained military operation in Europe since World War II, represented the first extended use of force by NATO as well as the first major [...]

In the last issue of Joint Force Quarterly, I outlined my three top priorities as Chairman--winning the global war on terrorism, improving joint warfighting capabilities, and transforming the Armed Forces. [...]

During the past decade of US military interventions in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Balkans, there has been a rising clamor on Capitol Hill and within the Pentagon for 'clear [...]

As America continues to prosecute its first war of the 21st century, it is useful to recall that the Air Force was born in wartime and bred for joint operations. [...]

Joint experimentation has reached a juncture. U.S. Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) is the focal point for joint experimentation and implementing concepts found in Joint Vision 2020. While the command has [...]

The United States remains at war with Iraq. Since the imposition of no-fly zones, Baghdad has developed a new form of strategic response--unconventional operations targeted at air forces. An American-led [...]

Despite all the attention given to jointness since World War II, there is no comprehensive theory that underpins the concept in doctrine. This is unusual in light of the large [...]

The most striking feature of this year's defense budget debate was that there was none. One reason for the absence of the usual acrimony accompanying the authorization of billions of [...]

The Pentagon's claims concerning American combat forces' lack of preparedness to fulfill their missions proved false, but succeeded in generating Congressional funding when the budgets of other executive branch departments [...]

The NATO military operation in Kosovo could have implications for the way future wars are fought, and critics have pointed to what they regard as significant flaws in military planning. The experience in Kosovo raises questions concerning shortfalls in needed weaponry, tactics used by the Serbs, a supposed casualty-intolerance of the American public, allocation of resources, and decisions on weapons upgrade or replacement.