Army Magazine

ARMY Magazine Vol. 69, No. 12, December 2019

Articles

Look to Past for Modernization Lessons

Maj. Nathan A. JenningsMaj. Adam Taliaferro
The interwar years between the Great War and World War II were a precarious period when industrialized military powers struggled to innovate with doctrine and tactics even as they incorporated emerging technologies. Though Britain, France, Italy and...

A Soggy Course of Instruction: Ranger Leadership Lessons Address Risk

Capt. Andrew W. Bordelon
“What are we waiting for?” a Ranger student stutters to his squad leader. “The RTO is still getting comms. We’ll push forward in just a second,” the squad leader responds. Their radio telephone operator has been trying to gain communication, or...

Partners Learn How We IG: Nations Tap Into Over 240 Years of U.S. Know-How

Thomas M. Ruyle
U.S. Army Col. Daniel Rice, the command inspector general of the Georgia National Guard, summed up his team’s success in assisting the former Soviet republic of Georgia in building its own inspector general capabilities. “This is how we train an IG...

Flying Hour Challenge: Competitors Use Analytics to Solve Complex Problems

Maj. Isaac Wisniewski Lisa Shaler
In the private sector, companies sponsor data science competitions to solve stagnating problems, outsource difficult work and advertise to the labor market. Netflix announced the first major data challenge in 2006 in hopes of improving its...
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December 2019 Book Reviews

AUSA Staff
Collection Gives Close-up View of the Services Redefining the Modern Military: The Intersection of Profession and Ethics. Nathan K. Finney and Tyrell O. Mayfield. Naval Institute Press. 264 pages. $29.95 By Lt. Col. Robert L. Bateman, U.S. Army...

Difficult Megacity Fight Seen in Mumbai

Maj. John W. Spencer, U.S. Army retiredCol. Liam Collins
Over 100 years ago, during the summer of 1919, dozens of members of that year’s West Point graduating class were sent to Europe to tour World War I battlefields. They walked on ground left deeply scarred by the conflict that had ended just months...

‘Vulnerable from Above’: Rising Drone attacks drive new technology, tactics

Michelle Tan, Deputy Editor in Chief
It began as a cheap, off-the-shelf tactic. Buy a commercially available drone, strap a bomb to it and let it fly. It didn’t take long for the tactic to catch on, spreading across the battlefields of Iraq and Syria as the Islamic State group tried to...