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With the soldiers of the Army deployed to over 120 countries and executing a wide variety of missions, the Army as a profession is being stretched to its limits. Richard Lacquement takes note of these developments and calls for a clarifi cation of what exactly the Army "profession" entails. His mapping of the profession's expert knowledge provides a framework to continue the debate on the jurisdictions of the Army profession. The recommendatio...

For more than 40 years, U.S. defense policy and the design of military capabilities were driven by the threat to national security posed by the Soviet Union and its allies. Over a decade after the fall of the Soviet Union, American forces are a smaller, but similar version of their Cold War predecessors. The author argues that the bureaucratic inertia of comfortable military elites has dominated the defense policy debate and preserved the stat...