The latest issue of Army Times has a cover story about... MilBloggers! Blackfive has the details.
He also has an excellent after-action review from the troops re: the Second Battle of Fallujah. Read it, and ask yourself: do the supposedly bright folks at your workplace ever do anything like this after major events? Why not?
UPDATE: If you're wondering where most of those "foreign volunteers" the Marines faced in Fallujah came from, Discarded Lies points us to an interesting survey re: their Bands of Bozos.
Eventually we'll need to treat the Saudis more seriously. I doubt it will happen on GWB's watch.
That after action report was quite something. What is stupendous was it being written by an E5 and lower enlisted, which means that such tactical acuity is really getting diseminated throughout the ranks.
I hope the Army reads that piece and tries to institutionalize its lessons as well.
The Army does do AARs and has been looking carefully at MOUT doctrine and tactics. However, it isn't (and shouldn't become) the Marines -- even though the operations right now push Army efforts closer to those at which the Marines excel, the services have different missions overall.
That said, it's probably no coincidence that the current Chief of Staff of the Army comes from the special forces side of the house.
Neither is it coincidence that the next Chief of Staff is almost certain to be a Marine. As the army transitions toward more of an "expeditionary force" model, the Marines' experience becomes increasingly relevant. And they've been rewarded with four-star positions for their early leadership in this area.
My bet: "Perfect Pete" Pace as the successor. "Hugh Hewitt seems to be of like mind.:"http://www.hughhewitt.com/#postid1429