Eric Trias and Bryan Bell (USAF): Cyber This, Cyber That, So What? From the latest issue of Parameters, a review essay on war in the information age. From Harvard International Review, a special issue on Waging Modern War. The new rules of war: John Arquilla, the visionary who first saw the age of "netwar" coming, warns that the U.S. military is getting it wrong all over again — here's his plan to make conflict cheaper, smaller, and smarter. From Armed Forces Journal, P.W. Singer on the rise of the tactical general: Beware the temptation to micromanage through unmanned systems (and Seth Hettena reviews Singer's Wired for War); Donald Drechsler and Charles Allen on why senior military leaders fail, and what we can learn from their mistakes; and are there limits civilian authority? Pat Paterson on how critical thinking and moral courage outweigh loyalty. What happens when the U.S. military decides that an academic discipline's professional ethics code is a nuisance? One wonders what would happen, just once, if lawmakers, and for that matter, presidents, of both parties, completely ignored the academics who offer them free advice; such outcomes may be worth pondering as the Ivory Tower plots to do some social engineering on America’s military. From H-Net, a review of Military Orientalism: Eastern War through Western Eyes by Patrick Porter. American Blitzkrieg: William J. Astore on the U.S. Military's German fetish. From The American Interest, Stephen Peter Rosen on the dual origins of American bellicosity. The first chapter from U.S. Military History for Dummies by John C. McManus. The war of new words: William F. Owen on why military history trumps buzzwords. Why do all the letters sent by military wives disappear? For comfort, we have blogs instead.
