January-February 2009  Military review Brigadier General Huba Wass de Czege, U.S. Army, Retired, was one of the principal developers of the Army’s AirLand Battle concept and the founder and first director of the School of Advanced Military Studies, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He holds a B.S. from the United States Military Academy and an M.A. from Harvard University. He also attended the U.S. Ar...

after the collapse of the soviet :union: and the formation of a new world order, the nature of power changed from exclusively military to a combination of military, economic and political one; and consequently the new discourse of geo-economics emerged alongside the geo-politics. since then, most countries have tried to maximize their relative power positions in the international system by emph...

if we consider the starting of achaemenian empire in 559 bc, the year that cyrus, the second, came to power and its ending in 332 bc, the year that iran was conquered by alexander, the macedonian, in these 227 years of military and political development of achaemenian empire, some of the nations and countries for example egypt, within achaemenian territory came under iranian military, economic ...

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) may be a global power economically but its military lacks force projection beyond the Asia Pacific region. Its traditional military hardware is one to three generations behind the US and Russia. In light of these deficiencies it is probable that cyber warfare will provide China with an asymmetric advantage to deter aggression from stronger military powers as...

Improving the quality of military operations is a driving force for many of the advances in soft and hard technology development. Examples are the development of the aircraft, nuclear power, computer, semiconductor, internet and the space communication and earth observing industries (Ruttan, 2006). Military operations both help develop new industries and also benefit from these industries. Rece...

the second half of the third hijri century, coinciding with the reign of three caliphs, al-mu’tamid (256-79 ah), al-mu’tadhid (279-89 ah), and al-muktafi (289-95 ah), abbasids restored their authority and renewed their organization. this reform process which was began by abu ahmad al-muwaffaq (d. 278 ah) and reached its climax at the time of abu al-abbas al-mu’tadhid stood between two decline p...

We invoke a neo-Foucauldian model of the panoptic gaze to understand the practices of military visuality and of newly emerging efforts to resist and subvert deep-seated and long-held governmental secrecy over military/intelligence activities and their sites of operation. The case studies set out in the second half of the paper are attempts question excessive secrecy underlying the military pano...