J O I N T F O R C E Q UARTERLY Issue 43, 4th Quarter 2006 Published for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by National Defense University JFQ 25th Anniversary Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Essay Contest coming next in... Reforming Pentagon Lessons from the Decisionmaking War on Terror Interagency Dialogue JOINT Fingerprints and the U.S. Joint FORCE War on Terror Forces Command QUARTERLY plus Forging Provincial Reconstruction Teams and more in issue 44, st THE 1 Quarter 2007 of JFQ VALIDATING TOTAL RCE ISSUE FO F ORTY J O I N T F O RCE QUARTERLY -THREE, A Professional Military and Security Journal 4 TH Published for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff QUARTER by National Defense University Press Institute for National Strategic Studies National Defense University, Washington, DC 2006 1070-0692()43;1-Q A PROFESSION A L M I L I T A R Y A N D S ECURITY JOURN A L Inside Issue 43, 4th Quarter 2006 Editor Col Merrick E. Krause, USAF Managing Editor Col David H. 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Reforming Pentagon Lessons from the Decisionmaking War on Terror Interagency Dialogue JOINT Fingerprints and the U.S. Joint FORCE War on Terror Forces Command QUARTERLY plus Forging Provincial Reconstruction Teams and more in issue 44, st THE 1 Quarter 2007 of JFQ VALIDATING TOTAL RCE ISSUE FO F ORTY J O I N T F O RCE QUARTERLY -THREE, A Professional Military and Security Journal 4 TH Published for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff QUARTER by National Defense University Press Institute for National Strategic Studies National Defense University, Washington, DC 2006 1070-0692()43;1-Q A PROFESSION A L M I L I T A R Y A N D S ECURITY JOURN A L Inside Issue 43, 4th Quarter 2006 Editor Col Merrick E. Krause, USAF Managing Editor Col David H. Gurney, USMC (Ret.) [email protected] Departments Executive Editor Jeffrey D. Smotherman, PhD From the Editor Supervisory Editor George C. Maerz 2 Production Supervisor Martin J. Peters, Jr. JFQ Dialogue Senior Copy Editor Calvin B. 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NDU Press is An Unrivaled Wingman: Air Force Reserve Vision part of the Institute for National Strategic Studies, a 18 policy research and strategic gaming organization. by John A. Bradley Marine Forces Reserve in Transition by John W. Bergman This is the authoritative, official U.S. Department 26 of Defense edition of JFQ. Any copyrighted portions 29 Volunteer Military Organizations: An Overlooked Asset of this journal may not be reproduced or extracted by Brent C. Bankus without permission of the copyright proprietors. Joint Force Quarterly should be acknowledged whenever material is quoted from or based on its content. Special Feature COMMUNICATIONS Please visit NDU Press and Joint Force Quarterly 2006 CJCS Strategic Essay Contest Winners online at ndupress.ndu.edu for more on upcoming issues, an electronic archive of JFQ articles, and Retooling the Nationbuilding Strategy in Afghanistan 34 access to many other useful NDU Press publications.