U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld delivers an address at the Council on Foreign Relations on the war in Iraq and the challenges of modernizing U.S. forces'communications capabilities in "today's media age."

This CRS Report for Congress focuses on Air Force transformation.

Stephen F. DeAngelis, president and CEO of Enterra Solutions, discusses the notion of enterprise resilience and its security implications in an incresingly globalized world.

Dr. D. Calvin Andrus, an officer in the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) Directorate of Support, says tools like Wikis and blogs allow the intelligence community to adjust to the ever changing national security environment.

Integrating nonlethal weapons (NLW) more widely into the U.S. Army and Marine Corps could have reduced damage, saved lives, and helped limit the widespread looting and sabotage that occurred after the cessation of major conflict in Iraq. So argues this report of a Council-sponsored independent Task Force led by Dr. Graham T. Allison, director of the Belfer Center for science and international affairs at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, General Paul X. Kelley, USMC (ret.), former commandant of the Marine Corps, and former military officers, business executives, academics, diplomats, and congressional staff. Incorporating NLW capabilities into the equipment, training, and doctrine of the armed services could substantially improve U.S. effectiveness in conflict, postconflict, and homeland defense. The Task Force report concludes that equipping U.S.-trained and -supported local forces in Afghanistan and Iraq with NLW would help reinforce authority and be more acceptable to local populations than conventionally armed troops.

Michael Moran argues that the insurgency could still rage without the Iraqi despot.

Michael Moran reports on major changes in every branch of the military.

Michael Levi argues that contrary to popular belief, with a little technological innovation, deterrence can become a useful strategy against terrorist use of nuclear weapons.