Russian View on American Military DominanceA provocative and sobering opinion by a leading Russian analyst and retired major general.

Indian-Pakistani Border Terrain Analysis

The People's Liberation Army Looks to the Future (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader) Get Adobe Acrobat Reader Free
An article for Joint Force Quarterly, summer 2000.

 Historical Survey of Military Transformation
A short study prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs in 2000.

Myths of Information Warfare
A cogent analysis based on the Kosovo campaign, by Tim Thomas, Foreign Military Studies Office, Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas.

THE FOUR FUTURES: Competing Schools of Thought in China's PLA
Some thoughts and observations based on my own meetings with Chinese colleagues and the writings of other analysts of East and West.

Combat Tasks and Peace Support
Discusses appropriateness of using combat units for peace support operations by analyzing combat tasks applied in peacekeeping and peace making environments. Prepared for Institute for Defense Analyses, 1997.

Coming to Grips with Information Warfare
Paper from a lecture in Beijing, March 1997.

IW Architecture
Thumbnail view of information warfare from DoD.

USMC Combat Effectiveness
A brief survey done for the USMC Wargaming and Simulation Center.

Historical Perspective on Combat Trends and Patterns (click to see larger picture)

Trendline of Personnel Casualties and Weapon Lethality (5.63K)

Trend in Battlefield Dispersion (7.56K)

Lethality/Dispersion = Intensity (7.89K)

Battlefield Intensity Curve, Implications over Time (9.04K)