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Col. Anna R. Friederich-Maggard

Greetings!

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s I peel away another
month from my desk
calendar, I am reminded
that my time as editor in chief is
quickly drawing to a close. This is my last journal letter
and, as I write, I find it is with bittersweetness. I am sad
to say goodbye to the people who made this assignment
a cherished memory and our readers and authors who
have so graciously supported Military Review, but I am
also excited about what lies ahead.
While here, I had the loyal support of the
Military Review/Army Press staff and a command
who granted me the freedom to reestablish the
journal as a very relevant and necessary part of
Army professional education and as an outlet for
scholarly dialogue. I feel the journal has dramatically
improved over the last three years, and I look forward to seeing how my successor will take it to even
greater heights.
I plan to make the most of the few months I have
remaining with Military Review and the Army Press
by providing our readers with the most engaging and
professionally written articles possible. The theme
of this edition is “Army Firsts,” and as you can see by
the cover, we took the liberty of showcasing one of
the most exciting Army firsts—The Army Press.
This issue of Military Review presents many new
approaches to current doctrine and concepts, and
how understanding the past can help us understand
the future, or the “new.” In this edition you will find
articles about other Army firsts such as an article by
Maj. Brian Hildebrand, who proposes that how well

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the Army uses decisive action through mission command is contingent on the ability of its leaders to integrate techniques for analyzing different aspects of
the human domain into the military decision-making process. He presents a way to analyze the human
domain by considering six interrelated social factors.
Another author, Brian Dunn, discusses a novel
approach to providing flexible, tailorable, and lowcost support to U.S. Africa Command through the
use of containerized mission modules that can be
combined into mission-specific packages and transported on civilian container ships. And, Maj. John
Bolton puts a unique spin on an old discussion by
espousing organic fixed-wing aircraft assigned to
Army aviation units to augment Air Force close air
support.
Finally, an article I especially like is from Paul
Kotakis celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
(ROTC) program. This program has produced two
chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, an astronaut,
seven Army chiefs of staff, two secretaries of state,
and a Supreme Court justice. Kotakis explains how,
with over six hundred thousand graduates to its
credit, Army ROTC has had a lasting impact on
virtually all elements of American society.
Thank you again for your continued support;
it’s been the best three years of my thirty-one-year
career. It is with a heavy heart that I must bid you
farewell. Please continue to follow us at http://
usacac.army.mil/cac2/militaryreview/index.asp or
http://armypress.dodlive.mil/.

A U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook is used to transport soldiers during a combined arms live-fire
exercise at Ban Chan Khrem, Thailand,
during exercise Cobra
Gold,
19 February
2016.
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(Photo by Lance Cpl. Eryn L. Edelman, U.S. Marine Corps)