Parameters' greatest hits

Posted By Thomas E. Ricks Tuesday, May 3, 2011 - 11:11 AM Share

The new issue of Parameters, the journal of the Army War College, is a collection of some of its best articles over the last 40 years. Anyone wishing to understand the U.S. Army in recent decades would do well to start by reading this issue cover to cover.

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MAXWELLAWC

4:35 PM ET

May 3, 2011

New Parameters Archive

Parameters also unveiled an electronic archive of every article (save a few) that they have published from 1971-2011 at:

http://www.carlisle.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/ArticleIndex.cfm

STILLWATER

2:02 PM ET

May 4, 2011

Desperately seeking...

Thanks for the link to the archives.

Does anyone know of a newsstand on the West Coast which carries the print version of Parameters?

MAXWELLAWC

10:10 PM ET

May 3, 2011

Then-COL Andrew Bacevich on Tom Ricks' current book project

"Just as we get our fiction from pop militarists, so also have we come to rely on civilian defense intellectuals to guide our thinking about strategy and war. Since the 1950s at least, we [officers] have been consumers of ideas, conceding to others responsibility for producing them. When it came to spinning elegant theories that would make sense of warfare in the Atomic Age, Bernard Brodie outclassed Omar Bradley and RAND eclipsed the Army War College with ease. So the officer corps gave up, submitting, in Eliot Cohen's words, to 'intellectual castration' at the hands of academics, whiz kids, and self-styled military reformers."
Andrew Bacevich, "New Rules: Modern War and Military Professionalism," Parameters (Dec 1990), page 23.

http://www.carlisle.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/Articles/1990/1990%20bacevich.pdf

Isn't that archive wonderful?

64DRIVER

12:45 AM ET

May 4, 2011

Love me some Andrew Bacevich

I got to see him on a civil-military relations panel discussion at West Point in 2002. And I really enjoyed _Washington Rules_ and _The New American Militarism_.

TOM RICKS

11:14 AM ET

May 4, 2011

Big Bacevich fan

I'm a big fan of Andrew Bacevich. I've learned a lot from him. I just realized that, like Gary Anderson, he has been quoted in all three of my non-fiction books.
Best,
Tom