Follow the Bear By Commander David A. Adams, USN; Major Kevin Norton, USMC; Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Schmitt, USA; and Lieutenant Colonel Jefferson E. Turner, USAF - Much of the former Soviet Union’s war in Aghanistan was a disaster, but some of the successes should be studied closely.

Too Busy to Learn By Major General Robert H. Scales, USA (Ret.) - With ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, professional military education is suffering. When the wars are over, it could be worse. 
 

Fully decked out with flags for the New York Fleet Review, the dreadnought USS Michigan rests at anchor in the Hudson River opposite President Ulysses S. Grant’s tomb in a painting by Tom Freeman. Our package of articles about the Michigan, her sister ship, the South Carolina, and the U.S. Navy’s dreadnought era begins on page 16.