Editor's corner.The Marines, like the other military services, have their own "transformation roadmap." Even though the Corps is innately a rapid-reaction force, it wants to become speedier and stealthier. Moving in that direction will take lots of experimentation and wargaming, said the commander of the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, Col. Frank A. Panter Jr. The lab is planning a major wargame for 2004, named "Olympic Dragon." The experiment will be dominated by such buzzwords Below is a list of common buzzwords which form part of the business jargon of Corporate work environments. General Conversation
You can read more about the Marines' transformation plans on page 17. The Navy, meanwhile, is making a case that it needs to improve its capabilities to fight in coastal areas and to secure access zones for the ground forces. Traditional warships are too large and, therefore, vulnerable to operate in the littorals. That is why the Navy wants a "Littoral Combat Ship The Littoral Combat Ship is the first of the U.S. Navy's next-generation surface combatants. Intended as a relatively small surface vessel for operations in the littoral region (close to shore), the LCS is smaller than the Navy's guided missile frigates, and have been compared to ." Beginning on page 20, Rear Adm. Don Loren, deputy director for surface ships, explains why the LCS LCS - Language for Communicating Systems is important to the Navy. Also of interest this month is an interview with the Pentagon's deputy undersecretary of defense for the environment, John Paul Woodley Jr. Not only is Woodley responsible for the environmental cleanup at military installations, but he also must ensure that future weapon systems are designed and built so that they don't cause as much pollution in the future. It is a tough job, especially when the military services are busy training or fighting, and do not want to be distracted by environmental regulations. You can read more about Woodley's perspectives on these issues on page 14. On the homeland security front, policy makers are wrestling with the role that the military forces should play in domestic antiterrorism an·ti·ter·ror·ist adj. Intended to prevent or counteract terrorism; counterterror: antiterrorist measures. an . Juliette N. Kayyem, a former member of the National Commission on Terrorism U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century / Hart-Rudman Commission is also known as the Hart-Rudman Task Force on Homeland Security. It was chartered to review in a comprehensive way U.S. national security requirements for the next century. and Steven E. Roberts, a security industry expert, discuss the implications of the war on terrorism Terrorist acts and the threat of Terrorism have occupied the various law enforcement agencies in the U.S. government for many years. The Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, as amended by the usa patriot act on the Posse Comitatus Act Posse Comitatus Act, 1878, U.S. federal law that makes it a crime to use the military as a domestic police force in the United States under most circumstances. of 1878. That law aimed to restrict the armed forces from acting as an executor of the nation's laws. The range of opinions surrounding Posse Comitatus is wide and diverse. Kayyem and Roberts essentially argue that the military services effectively can fight the war on terrorism, even on U.S. land, without undermining the spirit of Posse Comitatus. Their article appears on page 41. |
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