NOSI - Naval Open Source Intelligence: Transformation

Transformation - What Rumsfeld Got Right

Michael D'Alessandro — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:26:19 GMT

The Atlantic - Robert Kaplan on how Donald Rumsfeld remade the U.S. military for a more uncertain world.

Transformation - Robot glider harvests ocean heat

Michael D'Alessandro — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 12:36:10 GMT

BBC - A sea-going robotic glider that harvests heat energy from the ocean has been tested by US scientists.

Transformation - How Technology Almost Lost the War: In Iraq, the Critical Networks Are Social - Not Electronic

Michael D'Alessandro — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:21:35 GMT

Wired - Is the emphasis on network-centric warfare the cause of the United States' problems in Iraq?

Transformation - Brains, not bullets

Michael D'Alessandro — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:47:13 GMT

Economist - Western armies are good at destroying things. Can they be made better at building them?

Transformation - Robot wars

Michael D'Alessandro — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:14:32 GMT

The Economist - An attempt to build an ethical robotic soldier.

Transformation - New Sub Dives Crushing Depths

Michael D'Alessandro — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:55:52 GMT

Wired - Scientists at the University of Washington have developed an autonomous underwater vehicle that can stay out to sea for up to a year and dive to depths of nearly 9,000 feet -- nearly three times deeper than the deepest-diving military submarines.

Transformation - Darpa Chief Speaks

Michael D'Alessandro — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:17:52 GMT

Wired - An interview with Tony Tether who has headed up the Pentagon's way-out research arm, Darpa, since 2001. That makes him the longest-serving director in the agency's nearly 50-year history.

Transformation - The Real Meaning of Military Transformation: Rethinking the Revolution

Michael D'Alessandro — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:22:29 GMT

Foreign Affairs - Rumsfeld's mishandling of the Iraqi occupation has given the "revolution in military affairs" a bad name. But as Max Boot and Frederick Kagan point out in two new books, transformation is vital to any military's success -- and more important now than ever.

Transformation - Downfall

Michael D'Alessandro — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:56:25 GMT

New Yorker - How Donald Rumsfeld reformed the Army and lost Iraq.

Transformation - Jets or GIs? How Best to Address the Military's Manpower Shortage

Michael D'Alessandro — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 10:00:27 GMT

Foreign Affairs - The U.S. military needs more manpower, badly. And this means reordering budgets, putting troops over technology. Or does it?

Transformation - The Counterrevolution in Military Affairs

Michael D'Alessandro — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:07:20 GMT

Weekly Standard - Interesting essay by Ralph Peters on who he feels the real threats to the U.S. are.

Transformation - Long War

Michael D'Alessandro — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 10:30:39 GMT

Defense and the National Interest - William Lind comments on the Quadrennial Defense Rubberstamp.

Transformation - Spiraling ahead

Michael D'Alessandro — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 10:18:01 GMT

Armed Forces Journal - William Arkin asks with the loss of its greatest champion, what’s to become of transformation?

Transformation - Pentagon Scales Back Review of Military Strategy

Michael D'Alessandro — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 10:49:54 GMT

New York Times - Another sneek peek at the results of the Quadrennial Defense Review.

Transformation - Come the Revolution

Michael D'Alessandro — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 08:49:38 GMT

Naval War College Review - The Asia-Pacific militaries are making impressive strides in modernization, but modernization and transformation are not the same thing. What is impeding their progress in fully implementing the revolution in military affairs? Do they need to do that? What will happen if they do not?

Transformation - Pentagon Weighs Strategy Change to Deter Terror

Michael D'Alessandro — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 10:46:12 GMT

New York Times - The Pentagon's most senior planners are challenging the longstanding strategy that requires the armed forces to be prepared to fight two major wars at a time. Instead, they are weighing whether to shape the military to mount one conventional campaign while devoting more resources to defending American territory and antiterrorism efforts.

Transformation - Military Is Consolidating Into Large Installations

Michael D'Alessandro — Sun, 15 May 2005 10:10:53 GMT

Washington Post - In its first round of base closures in a decade, the Pentagon announced yesterday a sweeping plan to close or reduce forces at 62 major bases and nearly 800 minor facilities -- consolidating military capabilities in large installations that are best equipped to train and quickly deploy forces in wartime.

Transformation - Pentagon Strategy Aims to Block Internal Threats to Foreign Forces

Michael D'Alessandro — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 12:04:38 GMT

Washington Post - A new national defense strategy issued by the Pentagon calls for greater U.S. military efforts to keep foreign nations from becoming havens for terrorism or being undermined internally by such additional threats as insurgency, drugs and organized crime.

Transformation - A lesson in transforming warfare

Michael D'Alessandro — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 12:49:02 GMT

Financial Times - The world has been so focused on US military performance in the war on terrorism, particularly in Afghanistan and Iraq, that it has paid little attention to the growing problems within America's military forces and the failure of many US plans for force transformation.

Transformation - The Pentagon's Debate Over What Iraq Means

Michael D'Alessandro — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 10:32:14 GMT

Command Post - Thomas P.M. Barnett on how the ability to wage network centric warfare and fourth generation warfare will be essential in a transformed US military.

Transformation - Pentagon Prepares to Rethink Focus on Conventional Warfare

Michael D'Alessandro — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:20:47 GMT

Washington Post - The Pentagon has drafted terms for an ambitious reshaping of U.S. forces that would put less emphasis on waging conventional warfare and more on dealing with insurgencies, terrorist networks, failed states and other nontraditional threats.

Transformation - How Technology Failed in Iraq

Michael D'Alessandro — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 10:33:25 GMT

Technology Review - Fascinating article that draws from a classified RAND study that describes how the Iraq War was supposed to be a preview of the new U.S. military: a light, swift force that relies as much on sensors and communications networks as on heavy armor and huge numbers. But once the shooting started, technology fell far short of expectations.

Transformation - Shift From Traditional War Seen at Pentagon

Michael D'Alessandro — Fri, 03 Sep 2004 11:53:53 GMT

Washington Post - Thomas Ricks on how top Pentagon officials are considering a new, long-term strategy that shifts spending and resources away from large-scale warfare to build more agile, specialized forces for fighting guerrilla wars, confronting terrorism and handling less conventional threats, officials said yesterday.

Transformation - US redeploying for quicker action

Michael D'Alessandro — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:00:04 GMT

BBC - President Bush announces withdrawals and redeployments of American troops around the world.

Transformation - Arthur K. Cebrowski on Transformation of Defense

Michael D'Alessandro — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:55:51 GMT

Ubiquity - By anticipating evolution in social, threat and technological landscapes, the Office of Force Transformation makes changes before they're needed

Transformation - Scope of Change in Military Is Ambiguous

Michael D'Alessandro — Mon, 02 Aug 2004 09:46:22 GMT

Washington Post - Thomas Ricks surveys how much transformation has actually occured in the military during the Bush administration.