US Marines – A way to do fire support better in the infantry battalion.

• Marine Corps Gazette: A Revolution in Company Fire Support

Background – Iraq – Peter J. Boyer writes about Tommy Franks, the general who commanded the U.S. troops in the war with Iraq, and about how he joined Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in the fight to transform the military. Here Boyer talks about Franks’s career path and his political skill, the future of the American military, and covering the war from Doha, Qatar.

• New Yorker: The General’s War