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Annual Report to the President and the Congress.Over the past year America's armed forces continued to protect and advance the nation's interests throughout the world. Our accomplishments demonstrate that the U.S. military is strong, ready, and highly capable of meeting America's security needs. This Annual Defense Report details how the Department of Defense built its capabilities and is working to maintain them into the future. We have organized our task around three objectives. First, we want to prevent the reemergence of a post-Cold War nuclear threat by helping Russia and the other nuclear states of the former Soviet Union dismantle their nuclear weapons arsenals, and by developing effective means to counter the proliferation of nuclear weapons around the world. Second, we want to continue to manage the post-Cold War drawdown of our armed forces efficiently and effectively. We have carried out this drawdown while protecting the quality and morale of America's armed forces and sustaining the high readiness needed to ensure U.S. security. This is a historic accomplishment. Third, we want to be smart, deliberate, and clear on how America will use force or the threat of force effectively in this complex world. (MM)
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The Great American Divide: The Military-Civilian GapThe all-volunteer force of the United States military has produced a military society and culture that is becoming increasingly detached from the greater United States' society that it is sworn to protect. This military-civilian gap is a threat to the United States in that it is potentially producing a military society that deems itself morally superior to civilian society, with military leaders that are cut from the same ideological molds, which invites a group-think mentality. Conversely, the military-civilian gap also is producing a civilian population governed by civilian leaders that have an inadequate understanding of military force, its limitations, and its true costs in lives and treasure in providing for the security of the nation. Taken to its extreme, the military-civilian gap can result in a military that is contemptuous of the greater American society, and an American public that is so disconnected from the military class that it fails to value or question the employment of American military forces. This paper will discuss the military-civilian gap, its causes, issues, and dangers to the United States, and will offer solutions to address this problem.
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Parameters. US Army War College Quarterly. Volume 25. Number 1. Spring 1995,This periodical is the quarterly journal of the U.S. Army War College. Partial Contents of the Spring 1995 issue include: Dealing Realistically with Fratricide; Challenges of Ethnic Strife and Humanitarian Relief; Ethnic Conflict- The Perils of Military Intervention; New Global Communities: Nongovernmental Organizations in International Decision making Institutions; Threat Parameters to Operations Other Than War; The International Humanitarian Response System; Does China Threaten Asia-Pacific Stability?; MacArthur, Stilwell, and Special Operations in the War Against Japan. Includes Book Reviews. Parameters is a journal of ideas and issues, providing a forum for the expression of mature professional thought on the art and science of land warfare, joint and combined matters, national and international security affairs, military strategy, military leadership and management, military history, military ethics, and other topics of significant and current interest to the US Army and the Department of Defense. It serves as a vehicle for continuing the education, and thus the professional development, of War College graduates and other military officers and civilians concerned with military affairs.