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One of the largest DoD health care Foreign Military Sales cases ever implemented is being fulfilled in the form of a joint, multinational Trauma, Burn and Rehabilitative Medicine program in the United Arab Emirates.

The Trauma, Burn and Rehabilitative Medicine (TBRM) mission is to advise, train, mentor and provide technical support to United Arab Emirates (UAE) medical forces, the Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City (SSMC) hospital and referral facilities within the Abu Dhabi network while enhancing regional trauma, burn and rehabilitative medicine capabilities that would strengthen medical...

Adversaries continue to contest the nation’s use of space, persistently challenging our space dominance and our ability to provide space capabilities. They are using this domain for tactical functions and increasingly incorporating space operations into their conduct of war. For the Army, this includes operations that impact our ability to shoot, move and communicate. In response, the Army is focused on how to gain the advantage in the close and deep fights by incorporating space capabilities inside our combat formations.

Over the past several decades, the Army has emerged as the largest user...

When first asked if I would volunteer to join a security force assistance brigade, my answer was a hard “no,” but after serving in one for nearly 24 months, I can say I am glad I ended up saying “yes.” Everything I thought I knew about these brigades was wrong, built on preconceived notions and scar tissue from previous experiences with the Army’s attempts at advising.

Security force assistance brigades (SFABs) have solved the staffing, training and equipping challenges that plagued the Army’s early advising efforts. Much has changed in the world since America declared its independence from the...

A cursory reading of A Christmas Carol would be the best preparation for the times ahead. One could imagine a chapter wherein Scrooge would declare, “Oh, spirit, make it like it was; I want things to go back to normal.” The exasperated spirit would say, “There will not be normal.” Scrooge would whine, weep, gnash his teeth and exhibit a longing for what was. Again, the spirit would bellow, “There will not be a normal after ‘this.’ … There will be an ‘is’ that will continue to change and force adaptation.”

The best practices we are using today for life, health, safety, information and...

Army aviation has a well-documented legacy of supporting soldiers. Across the globe, soldiers rely on Army aviation to provide everything from protection and lethality, to reconnaissance and surveillance, to food and water.

Behind the aircraft and equipment employed by Army aircrews are the soldiers and civilians of Program Executive Office Aviation. The PEO Aviation team has played a key role in development and delivery of these combat-proven weapons systems, capabilities that have provided Army aviation overmatch against adversaries for decades.

As the Army transforms into a more lethal and...

Army aviation has a well-documented legacy of supporting soldiers. Across the globe, soldiers rely on Army aviation to provide everything from protection and lethality, to reconnaissance and surveillance, to food and water.

Behind the aircraft and equipment employed by Army aircrews are the soldiers and civilians of Program Executive Office Aviation. The PEO Aviation team has played a key role in development and delivery of these combat-proven weapons systems, capabilities that have provided Army aviation overmatch against adversaries for decades.

As the Army transforms into a more lethal and...

Imagine you are an Army signal officer in the field with your unit on deployment. The mission is proceeding smoothly, but unexpectedly, your trailer-mounted Satellite Transportable Terminal flips over in a ditch. When you turn it on, you cannot acquire a satellite signal. The terminal is officially non-mission-capable.

The Satellite Transportable Terminal (STT) is critical to receive secure voice, video and data communications the unit needs to complete its mission. Without it, your command, control, communications, computers, cyber, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C5ISR)...

Ike’s Strategic Approach to Decision-Making

How Ike Led: The Principles Behind Eisenhower’s Biggest Decisions. Susan Eisenhower. Thomas Dunne Books. 400 pages. $29.99

By Lt. Col. Daniel Sukman

Few leaders through history have made more strategic decisions that influenced world events than Dwight Eisenhower. How Ike Led: The Principles Behind Eisenhower’s Biggest Decisions uses the lens of his worldview, ethics and strategic perspective to examine the range of decisions the general and president made over the course of his service to the nation.

The author is Eisenhower’s granddaughter Susan, and...

Mentorship is a critical investment tool that should be used to cultivate the strength and diversity of the Army. To sustain the talent of a workforce, organizations invest in their people through formal and informal mentorship. The Army thrives because of its diversity of talent, and mentorship is critical to ensure diverse leaders within the ranks.

The Army defines mentorship as “a voluntary and developmental relationship that exists between a person with greater experience and a person with less experience, characterized by mutual trust and respect.” Successful and experienced military...

Mentorship is a critical investment tool that should be used to cultivate the strength and diversity of the Army. To sustain the talent of a workforce, organizations invest in their people through formal and informal mentorship. The Army thrives because of its diversity of talent, and mentorship is critical to ensure diverse leaders within the ranks.

The Army defines mentorship as “a voluntary and developmental relationship that exists between a person with greater experience and a person with less experience, characterized by mutual trust and respect.” Successful and experienced military...

The great football coach Vince Lombardi said it best: “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.” The U.S. Army catches excellence in its building and maintenance of readiness, execution of combat operations, and support missions other than war important to national leaders. At the brigade level, a high operational tempo requires a pursuit of excellence at every opportunity from the team leader to brigade commander and command sergeant major.

In its simplest form, excellence is a state that is a cut above the average or mediocre. It can, however, be...

Women are the fastest-growing subpopulation of veterans, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. And female veterans deserve and require qualified and available health care services as they transition from the military into the civilian sector.

But in the past, female veterans reported dissatisfaction in navigating and receiving female-specific care within VA health facilities due to the limited number of VA health care providers for women.

In response, the VA’s Veterans Health Administration (VHA) created a mini-residency program on women’s health geared toward VHA clinicians who are...

The Russian aggression in Ukraine in the summer of 2014 served as a wake-up call for NATO. The 2014 Wales Summit launched a full-scale reform of the alliance, including its military posture. For the first time in a generation, perennial calls for downsizing—the last reduction having been ordered as recently as 2012—have been reversed. NATO is upping its readiness in terms of organizational flexibility and responsive forces.

The U.S. has been at the forefront of the effort, with a significant reinforcement of forces in Europe, reversing the trend that started with the end of the First Gulf War...

Dempsey Offers Personal Leadership Lessons

No Time for Spectators: The Lessons That Mattered Most From West Point to the West Wing. Martin Dempsey. Missionday. 224 pages. $27.95

By Sgt. Maj. of the Army Kenneth Preston, U.S. Army retired

No Time for Spectators: The Lessons That Mattered Most From West Point to the West Wing by retired Gen. Martin Dempsey, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is a collection of personal leadership lessons spanning a military career of more than four decades. This book is a compilation of short stories arranged in a format to support nine key leadership...

In an April 8 opinion piece published online by The Hill newspaper, the two authors questioned why no senior military leader had resigned in protest over the Navy’s cases involving SEAL Edward Gallagher or the captain of the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, Brett Crozier. And in a June 3 post, the Lincoln Project called for both Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper to resign for “an egregious lapse in judgment.”

Anyone who has read my book, Just War Reconsidered: Strategy, Ethics, and Theory, or the essays I’ve written on the subject of civil...