Army

A couple of years ago I was on a helicopter flight from Yongsan, Korea to Osan Air Force Base, in effect flying over wall-to-wall "Legoland," along a wide and long corridor of highly complex urban terrain. I later shared some impressions from this experience...

Eurosatory 2002, one of the world's largest defense expositions, held in Paris in June, was a great success. AUSA organized the U.S. Pavilion, the largest national indoor pavilion at the show, which was in a new locale this year, an exposition center...

With nearly 15,000 vehicles already delivered to the U.S. Army to date, the family of medium tactical vehicles (FMTV) is becoming a ubiquitous presence in Army operations across the conflict spectrum. As these pages go to press, two Army contractors...

THE U.S. ARMY IN THE BALKANS THE BALKANS, WITH SOLDIERS OF THE 25TH INFANTRY DIVISION (LIGHT) IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA AND SOLDIERS OF THE 1ST INFANTRY DIVISION (MECHANIZED) IN KOSOVO - "Bosnia looks fairly peaceful now," CWO 3 Cody Sharp said over the...

Leadership in Battle: At the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, junior field grade officers receive instruction aimed at helping them make an important transition. This transition is from the mostly direct leadership role they enjoyed as platoon...

Rank and organization: Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army, X Corps Artillery, while attached to the 52nd Transportation Truck Battalion. Place and date: Near Chosin Reservoir, Korea, 29 November to 10 December 1950. Entered service at: St. Paul, Minn. Born:...

The Army continues to work to make Afghanistan a safer country while making it more difficult for the remnants of the Taliban and al Qaeda to regroup and rearm. In the Philippines, the Army has departed but is preparing to return to continue to assist...

It is hard to believe that a full year has passed since the world watched the series of disasters unfold at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and in rural Pennsylvania. The United States was attacked-an act of war as much as it was an act of craven...

The Army continues to work to make Afghanistan a safer country while making it more difficult for the remnants of the Taliban and al Qaeda to regroup and rearm. In the Philippines, the Army has departed but is preparing to return to continue to assist...

The exchange between Maj. Gen. Edward B. Atkeson, U.S. Army retired, and Maj. Bob Krumm that appeared in ARMY Magazine in February and May is entertaining but not as enlightening as it should be. There are a number of reasons for this, but the basic...

Portraits: 9/11/01: The Collected "Portraits of Grief" from The New York Times. Foreword by Howell Raines. Introduction by Jenny Scott. Times Books, Henry Holt and Company, LLC. 558 pages; hardcover; black and white photographs; $30. After the initial...

The American public, that portion that reads newspapers and listens to talking heads, is being inundated with "plans for attacking Iraq." A large collection of columnists, commentators, retired colonels and generals and just plain reporters, each with,...