Featured Articles:

Advising Iraqis: Building the Iraqi Army by Lieutenant Colonel Carl D. Grunow, U.S. Army.

Countering Evolved Insurgent Networks by Colonel Thomas X. Hammes, USMC, Retired.

Responding to Bolivian Democracy: Avoiding the Mistakes of Early U.S. Cuban Policy by Waltraud Queiser Morales, Ph.D.

Full-Spectrum Analysis: A New Way of Thinking for a New World by Adrian Wolfberg.

USAF Relevance in the 21st Century: A First-Quarter Team in a Four-Quarter Game by Major Andrew S. Kovich, U.S. Air Force.

Writing Competition Winners

1st Place (COIN Competition)

Producing Victory: Rethinking Conventional Forces in COIN Operations by Lieutenant Colonel Douglas A. Ollivant, U.S. Army and First Lieutenant Eric D. Chewning, U.S. Army.

2nd Place (COIN Competition)

Unit Immersion in Mosul: Establishing Stability in Transition by Major Paul T. Stanton, U.S. Army.

1st Place (DePuy Competition)

Hezbollah’s Employment of Suicide Bombing during the 1980’s: The Theological, Political, and Operational Development of a New Tactic by Captain Daniel Isaac Helmer, U.S. Army.

Latin America

A Dragon in the Andes? China, Venezuela, and U.S. Energy Security by Daniel P. Erikson.

Castro’s Tactics of Control in Cuba by José Ramón Ponce Solozábal.

Stand Alone

The All-Volunteer Army: Can We Still Claim Success? by Major General Walter L. Stewart Jr., U.S. Army National Guard, Retired.

Cultural Awareness and Irregular Warfare: French Army Experience in Africa by Colonel Henri Boré, French Army, Retired.

Insights

Our Strategic Intelligence Problem by Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Peters, U.S. Army, Retired.

Book Reviews: Contemporary Readings for the Professional (Scroll down past the Peters article - also contains letters to the editor).