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Seeing Red: Creating a Red-Team Capability for the Blue Force

Fontenot discusses the US Army's read teaming capabilities and benefits. Red teaming is a structured and iterative process executed by trained, educated, and practiced team members with access to relevant subject matter expertise. The process provides the commander with an independent capability to continuously challenge operational environment concepts, plans, and operations from partner and adversary perspectives.

Battle Command: Toppling the Tower of Babel

Whitefield comments on US Armed Forces' challenges to improve future network Battle Command system. He stresses that to achieve an expeditionary-level Battle Command, Army have to build interdependence through consensus. They must identify the capabilities the commander needs to plan, prepare, execute, and assess operations, as well as understand that they are part of a continuum in which all their system operate.

Using Biometrics to Achieve Identity Dominance in the Global War On Terrorism

Just as the US military has established its superiority in other arts of war, now, working with other US Government organizations, it must strive for identity dominance over terrorist and national security threats who pose harm to American lives and interest. Woodward discusses how can biometrics help achieve identity dominance in the global war on terrorism.

Perceptions and Courses of Actions Toward Iran

Hart discusses US misperceptions about Iran which affect policy making and unnecessarily close off policy options. Given the US experience with Iran since the !978-1979 revolution, it is difficult for US strategists to guard against a distorted image of reality and false expectations of Iranian behavior. They find it all but impossible to apply cultural relativity to consider Iran's perspectives.

Don't Follow the Bear: The Soviet Attempt to Build Afghanistan's Military

The Soviet experience in Afghanistan during the 1980s provides many lessons for contemporary military operations. The apparent similarity to the position the US finds itself in today in Afghanistan and Iraq warrants giving some attention to Soviet lessons learned. Pomper discusses the lessons learned in Soviet's attempt to build Afghanistan's military.

Ten Misperceptions About North Korea

Dunn presents ten misperceptions about North Korea. Among other things, North Korea is actually run by a brutal dictator and his close personal friends and family.

International Law and Terrorism

Kellog discusses the International Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) in relation of the war on terrorism. She also elaborates on the legitimacy's strategic advantages in order to sever terrorist organizations and their sponsor states from the public support on which their success depends.

The New Master of Wizard's Chess: The Real Hugo Chavez and Asymmetric Warfare

Beginning with the election of Hugo Chavez Frias as President of Venezuela on 1998, the US and Venezuela have exchanged a continuous series of acrimonious charges and countercharges. Each country has repeatedly argued that the other is engaged in a political, economic, military struggle for Western Hemisphere hegemony. Here, Manwaring features who is the real Hugo Chavez and how can the innumerable charges and countercharges between the Venezuelan and US governments be interpreted.

Sidewise Technologies: National Security and Global Power Implications

Bracken discusses the application of sidewise technologies, which are mature technologies applied to new problem areas, to national security and global power implications. In it, there is a conceptual framework more focused on the cultures and needs of most of the world, and not just the Western outlook. The framework includes innovation in two-thirds of the world, systems integration, and preempting surprise.

North Korea: Government-Sponsored Drug Trafficking

North Korea began producing drugs in the late 1970s in the mountainous Hamgyong and Yanggang provinces, selling the drugs in earnest when Kim II-Sung former leader of the Democratic Republic of Korea, toured Hamgyong-Bukto province and designated Yonsa an opium farm. North Korea does not hide the fact it cultivates poppies, but claims the plants are used to produce pharmaceuticals. Hurst discusses North Korea's government-sponsored drug trafficking.

Coercive Diplomacy in U.S. Foreign Policy

McCready reviews The United States and Coercive Diplomacy edited by Robert J. Art and Patrick M. Cronin.

Unprivileged Belligerency: The Ira

When the British Government applied the counterinsurgency tactics it developed in the colonies to political violence in the 1970s during "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland, legal problems arose. The Irish Repulican Army (IRA) claimed it was at war. Here, Noone discusses the legal categories: war and peace and nonprivelege belligerents, and the rights the IRA claim.

Chinese Army Modernization: An Overview

Blasko presents an overview discussion of the Chinese Army modernization. Among other things, it encompasses all four services with priority of effort directed toward the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy, the PLA Air Force, and the strategic missile force.

Lone Star Confederate: A Gallant and Good Soldier of the Fifth Texas Infantry

White reviews LONE STAR CONFEDERATE: A Gallant and Good Soldier of the Fifth Texas Infantry edited by Robert Campbell, Mark W. Perkins, and George Skoch.

Stalin and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him

Porter reviews STALIN AND HIS HANGMEN: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed Him by Donald Rayfield.

The Execution of Private Slovik

Spulick reviews THE EXECUTION OF PRIVATE SLOVIK by William Bradford Huie.

Drugs and Democracy in Latin America: The Impact of U.S. Policy

Davidson reviews DRUGS AND DEMOCRACY IN LATIN AMERICA: The Impact of US Policy edited by Coletta A. Youngers and Eileen Rosin.

The Pentagon and the Presidency: Civil-Military Relations From Fdr to George W. Bush

Pearlman reviews THE PENTAGON AND THE PRESIDENCY: Civil-Military Relations from FDR to George W. Bush by Dale R. Herspring.

Foch: Supreme Allied Commander in the Great War

Stephenson reviews FOCH: Supreme Allied Commander in the Great War by Michael S. Neiberg.

Balancing Risks: Great Power Intervention in the Periphery

Stringer reviews BALANCING RISKS: Great Power Intervention in the Periphery by Jeffrey W. Taliaferro.

Tales of a Cold War Submariner

Bailey reviews TALES OF A COLD WAR SUBMARINER by Dan Summitt.

Europe in a Wider World: 1350-1650

Boden reviews EUROPE IN A WIDER WORLD: 1350-1650 by Robin W. Winks and Lee Palmer Wandel.

March of Death: Sir John Moore's Retreat to Corunna, 1808-1809

Gerges reviews MARCH OF DEATH: Sir John Moore's Retreat to Corunna, 1808-1809 by Christopher Summerville.

Resisting Rebellion: The History and Politics of Counterinsurgency

Starke reviews RESISTING REBELLION: The History and Politics of Counterinsurgency by Anthony James Joes.

Rethinking the National Security of Pakistan: The Price of Strategic Myopia

Grau reviews RETHINKING THE NATIONAL SECURITY OF PAKISTAN: The Price of Strategic Myopia by Ahmad Faruqui.

Insights

Opords and Leadership: Complicating Simplicity

Lance Booth remarks that the US Army needs to simplify its methods, reduce its staffs, shift leadership paradigms, and transform in the right rather than the wrong places. Furthermore, he suggests to get out of the weeds of management and return to battle-proven methods and leadership that prepares forces to fight against modern, professional armies instead of self-praising for running over an ill-equipped and poorly trained army in only 21 days.

Book Reviews

Provincial Power and Absolute Monarchy: The Estates General of Burgundy: 1661-1790

Schepp reviews PROVINCIAL POWER AND ABSOLUTE MONARCHY: The Estates General of Burgundy: 1661-1790 by Julian Swann.

Storm of Steel: The Development of Armor Doctrine in Germany and the Soviet Union

Stephenson reviews STORM OF STEEL: The Development of Armor Doctrine in Germany and the Soviet Union by Mary R. Habeck.