- BREAKING RANKS
HEADNOTE PART-TIME SOLDIERS ARE STARTING TO CRACK UNDER FULL-TIME PRESSURE IN IRAQ U.S. SOLDIERS'SIMMERING CONCERNS ABOUT TRAVELING THE BOMB-POCKED roads of Iraq in unarmored vehicles broke out into the open in December. A National Guardsman roused cheers from a crowd of Iraq-bound troops when he asked Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ......
- By air or by sea
HEADNOTE GLOBAL REACH HEADNOTE Despite recent improvements in airlift and sealift, moving troops and supplies to the battlefield remains an enormous challenge. Winston Churchill may have said it best: "Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it never could have blossomed." It's a lesson armies ......
- Tours Extended in Iraq
Two Army brigades and a Marine expeditionary unit have had their tours in Iraq extended to provide security for the upcoming elections there. The major units extended are the Army's 2nd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (Light), the 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division (its second extension) and the Marine Corps' 31st ......
- Tours Extended in Iraq
Two Army brigades and a Marine expeditionary unit have had their tours in Iraq extended to provide security for the upcoming elections there. The major units extended are the Army's 2nd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (Light), the 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division (its second extension) and the Marine Corps' 31st ......
- Editor's corner.
In the U.S. Army, "transformation" may be an overused buzzword, but it's also a fair description for what is happening at the service's training centers. Notably the Army has reorganized its training centers to address gaps in areas such as stability and support operations, based on lessons learned from counterinsurgency ......
- So, you're going to Iraq...
In the Army training model, you train as you fight and inversely, when you get into combat, you fight as You have trained. That sounds like common sense to most, but as soldiers have found out during their tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, the measure of a unit's success will ......
- So, you're going to Iraq...
IMAGE PHOTOGRAPH 1 In the Army training model, you train as you fight and inversely, when you get into combat, you fight as You have trained. That sounds like common sense to most, but as soldiers have found out during their tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, the measure of a ......