July-September 2014 Issue

FEATURES

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When a River Runs Through It: Riverine Operations in Contemporary Conflict

LTC (Retired) Lester W. Grau and LTC (Retired) Leroy W. Denniston

The Tactical Application of Military Mountaineering

CPT Russell Mitscherling, CPT Marcus Elledge, and 1SG (Retired) David O’Rear

PROFESSIONAL FORUM

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Every Soldier Counts: Part 2 — The Role of The Battalion S1 in Manning a Brigade in Today’s Force Reductions

MAJ Christopher L. Moore

How To Inactivate a Company: A Primer For Company-Level Leaders

CPT Sam Rosenberg and CPT Stuart Barnes-Israel

Unmanned Aerial Systems: What We’ve Learned Through Experimentation

LTC (Retired) Jeffrey J. Gudmens

Who You Gonna Call? Deciphering the Difference Between Reserve, Quick Reaction, Striking, and Tactical Combat Forces

LTC (Retired) Michael T. Chychota and LTC (Retired) Edwin L. Kennedy Jr.

HHC/BDE ... Separate Company?

COL Blace C. Albert

'Seeing the Terrain' - Using Terrain and Anti-Tank Systems to Increase SBCT Lethality Against Enemy Armor

CPT Shawn Scott and MAJ Chris Ricci

The Stryker Brigade Combat Team: 'America’s Early Entry Force'

CPT Steve Krippel and MAJ Chris Ricci

TRAINING NOTES

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A Thermal Education: AN/PAS-13, NET, and Do-It-Yourself Thermal Targets

PEO Soldier/PM Soldier Sensors and Lasers

NTC 14-03: Stryker Small Unit Training To Defeat a Conventional Mechanized Force

1LT Eric T. Kim

GPS and the Maneuver Soldier

CPT Jerry V. Drew II

OTHER DEPARTMENTS

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Commandant's Note:

Why Fundamentals Matter

BG James E. Rainey

Infantry News

Performance Triad App Now Available

Army Medicine

Apply Now for Broadening Opportunities

David Vergun

Enhanced Grenade Lethality: On Target Even When the Enemy is Concealed

Eric Kowal

Book Reviews

Churchill’s First War: Young Winston at War with the Afghans

By Con Coughlin

Reviewed by MAJ Kirby R. Dennis

The Only War We Had: A Platoon Leader’s Journal of Vietnam
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Vietnam, 1969-1970: A Company Commander’s Journal

By Michael Lee Lanning

Reviewed by LTC (Retired) Rick Baillergeon

Other

Two Vietnam War Soldiers Receive MoH

Bonus Material

"(Just) Peace Theory: The Social Context of War