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Next month, the Army will lose one of its best officers. After a 32-year career Colonel Peter Newell is retiring. Beginning his career as an enlisted armor crewman, Colonel Newell also served in a number of divisional assignments as well as with the 75th Ranger regiment and the 82nd Airborne. Like
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Date:
4/17/2013
There has been much written about the lessons learned from recent conflicts regarding how U.S. forces need to be organized, trained and equipped. Much less has been written about the critical lessons learned regarding the needed reforms for the Pentagon’s acquisition and logistics systems. One
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Date:
10/11/2012
The U.S. Army is at the start of what is likely to be one of the most wrenching operational, intellectual and organizational transitions in its modern history. The change most people focus on, that from “wartime” to “peacetime,” with an accompanying 100,000 reduction in active duty end strength
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Date:
3/16/2012
One of the most important lessons to come out of the last eight years of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is the inevitability of troops in combat needing equipment which had not been available to them in peacetime. Operating primarily in dismounted mode and facing new kinds of threats from weapons
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Date:
4/14/2011
Even though the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan are not over, the U.S. military must start preparing for the next wars. The Marine Corps is trying to reinstitute amphibious warfare training. The Army is returning to practicing for conventional combined arms operations. The Navy and Air Force are
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Date:
2/1/2011
Today’s soldiers in Afghanistan are the best equipped in the world -- the best body armor, the best fire resistant uniform ensembles, the best weapons, night vision goggles, communications systems, mountain boots and helmets. What distinguishes the current wars from those for which the military
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Date:
12/14/2010