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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Counterfactual: pertaining to, or expressing, what has not in fact happened, but might, could, or would, in different conditions. --Oxford English Dictionary THIS ARTICLE IS COUNTERFACTUAL, but is [...]

WITH ONE EXCEPTION--the post-World War II Marshall Plan for the reconstruction of Germany and Japan-Winston Churchill's statement was prophetic in describing American post-war experiences. It has proven particularly true of [...]

FEW PLACES IN our Army today train Soldiers with as much intensity as our mobilization stations. With about 184,000 National Guard and Reserve Soldiers deployed to combat theaters of operation [...]

DURING THE PAST DECADE there has been a proliferation of literature on effective methodologies to identify and neutralize, weaken, or destroy a center of gravity (COG). (1) This trend continues [...]

AUTHOR'S NOTE: With continued massive human suffering and violence in Darfur, there is discussion about increasing U.S. and international military involvement in the Sudan. With that in mind, this article [...]

Everything changes; nothing is extinguished ... What was before is left behind; what never was is now; and every passing moment is renewed.--Ovid (1) Portions of this article were presented [...]

This article was solicited from the author by Military Review as a companion piece to his article, 'The Decisive Weapon: A Brigade Combat Team Commander's Perspective on Information Operations,' published [...]

Eine Operation ohne Schwerpunkt is wie ein Mann ohne Charakter. [An operation without Schwerpunkt is like a man without character.] --Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg AS THE U.S. ARMY moves [...]

FOR ROUGHLY A DECADE the Army has been examining a concept widely referred to as air-mechanization. According to the concept, some portion of future Army forces would be designed specifically [...]

IN THE MAY-JUNE 2002 issue of Foreign Affairs, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld described his strategy for transforming the U.S. military. Part of that strategy is to 'change not only the [...]

As night fell, the situation grew threatening. Marcone arrayed his battalion in a defensive position on the far side of the bridge and awaited the arrival of bogged-down reinforcements. One [...]

THE SOVIET experience in Afghanistan during the 1980s provides many lessons for contemporary military operations. The apparent similarity to the position the United States finds itself in today in Afghanistan [...]

This is not exactly the enemy we wargamed against. --LTG William S. Wallace, Commander of V Corps during Operation Iraqi Freedom (1) LIEUTENANT GENERAL William S. Wallace had considered the [...]

THE WAR ON TERROR pits the United States and its allies against violent ideologues who would replace secular governments or (to their minds) apostate states with theocratic regimes hostile to [...]

IN THE GLOBAL War on Terrorism (GWOT), while Operation Enduring Freedom aims to defeat the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, Operation Enduring Freedom-Philippines (OEF-P) continues with little fanfare. The operation [...]

This paper is a postscript to the authors 'July-August 2006 Military Review article 'Producing Victory: Rethinking Conventional Forces in COIN Operations.' That article won the Combined Arms Center Commanding General's [...]

In this issue Military Review examines several issues. One is force projection--the ability to project combat power into a theater of operations to meet military requirements. Military Review also continues [...]