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Topics: u.s. army war college, cyber, cyber operations, cyber warfare, computer network exploitation
Topics: DTIC Archive, Galvin,Thomas P, U.S. Army War College -Strategic Studies Institute Carlisle United...
To avoid the footpaths which may have been mined with improvised explosive devices (IEDs), Ryan Evans, a U.S. federal civilian, was walking across a wheat field in Babaji, Helmand Province, in the spring of 2011. Evans was attached to the Royal Highland Fusiliers (2 Scots), C Company, a heavy infantry patrol tasked with providing security in the vicinity. Begun 2 years earlier, the Helmand Food Zone Program was a form of development intervention which offered subsidies, seed, and fertilizers to...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Sims,Christopher, U.S. Army War College Carlisle, cross culture(sociology),...
Gregory Aftandilian examines the new Arab regional order that has emerged in recent years and analyzes opportunities and challenges for U.S. interests in the region as a result of this order. He argues that the new order encompasses two main alliances. The first is an anti-Islamist grouping of countries and factions opposed to the Muslim Brotherhood and likeminded Islamist groups. This alliance emerged in the aftermath of the ouster of Egyptian President Mohammad Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Aftandilian,Gregory, U.S. Army War College Carlisle, national politics, treaties,...
With greatly increased lethal use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) comes greater scrutiny and controversy. This monograph lays out the ethical and legal landscape in which drone killings take place and makes key recommendations not only for ensuring legality and a sound moral basis for operations, but alsofor ensuring those operations are effective. While supporters claim that drone warfare is not only legal but ethical and wise, others have suggested that drones are prohibited weapons under...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Keene,Shima D, U.S. Army War College Carlisle United States, REMOTELY PILOTED...
In the remote reaches of the South China Sea in the Spratly Island chain, China is creating land. In order to bolster its claims to the waters of the region, Beijing is pouring millions of metric tons of sand and concrete onto submerged reefs, creating artificial islands.1 Island-building is merely one of the most obvious of many actions, ranging from propaganda to economic coercion and swarming fleets of fishing vessels, that China has been taking to solidify its assertion of territorial and...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Mazarr,Michael J, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute Carlisle, CHINA,...
Two features have been consistent in the Middle East and North Africa since the era of independence: ongoing violence of all sortsand the absence of a collective security structure, which could tackle this violence. Since the end of World War II, the region has seen multiple attempts to organize collective and cooperative security, all of which failed. Since the so-called Arab Spring, movement has come again into regional security. From joint exercises and combat operations to an attempt to...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Gaub,Florence, U.S. Army War College -Strategic Studies Institute Carlisle United...
The debate over counterinsurgency (COIN), seemingly dormant since the end of the Vietnam War, has been rekindled by the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since the 2006 publication of the U.S. Army/Marine Corps Field Manual (FM) 3-24, Counterinsurgency, practitioners and scholars have argued over the efficacy of COIN. Supporters insist that the new approach outlined in the manual led to the creation ofa strategy that defeated the Iraqi insurgents between 2006-2009. Critics argue that the surge...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Mockaitis,Thomas R, U.S. Army War College -Strategic Studies Institute Carlisle...
This Letort Paper explores Russian state mobilization. It first frames how Moscow sees the world and then turns to explore the range of measures that the Russian leadership is implementing to address a series of threats, both real and perceived, as well as numerous internal challenges. These are emergency measures, tantamount to putting the country onto a war footing. It has been plain for some time that the world is seen very differently by policymakers in Washington, D.C. and Moscow. However,...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Monaghan,Andrew, U.S. Army War College -Strategic Studies Institute Carlisle United...
This manuscript examines the increasingly important form of rivalry and statecraft that has become known as gray zone strategies. In regions from Eastern Europe to the South China Sea, such tactics in the hands of ambitious regional powers pose a growing challenge to U.S. and allied interests. This monograph aims to provide a broad introduction to the issue to help leaders in the U.S. Army and the wider joint Department of Defense and national security community better understand this...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Mazarr,Michael J, U.S. Army War College Carlisle, military STRATEGY, MILITARY...
The United States Army finds itself at an inflection point. Fifteen years of war have yielded inconclusive results, and the American people have limited enthusiasm for new investments in blood and treasure. Yet the global security environmentis one of growing complexity and danger, and the demand for an adaptive, agile military persists. The U.S. Army has a solemn responsibility to protect and defend the nation and the Constitution, and this requires critical assessment. This report is an...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Bahl,Brent G, U.S. Army War College Carlisle United States, Roles (Behavior),...
One defining phenomenon of the 21st century to date is the ascent of new countries in the global economic, political, and security environment. While the so-called BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) receive most of the attention in business, government, security, and media circles, several other countries have become influential regionalif not yet globalplayers, including Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, and Turkey. The prominence of these and other countries reflects the...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Guay,Terrence R, U.S. Army War College -Strategic Studies Institute Carlisle United...
This Letort Paper examines the geopolitical implications of Chinas growing involvement in the Arctic for U.S. interests. First, the evolution of U.S. Arctic strategy, including its political and military components, is discussed. Next, Chinas interests and goals in the Arctic are addressed. A third section examines the Arctic in Chinas relations with Canada, Russia, and the Nordic states. This Letort Paper then evaluates the consequences of Chinas expanding Arctic presence for U.S. security...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Wishnick,Elizabeth, U.S. Army War College -Strategic Studies Institute Carlisle...
Urbanization is one of the most important mega-trends of the 21st century. Consequently, the possi-bility of U.S. military involvement in a megacity or sub-megacity is an eventuality that cannot be ignored. After elucidating the nature of urbanization and de-veloping a typology in terms of smart, fragile, and feral cities, we give consideration to the kinds of contingencies that the U.S. military, especially the Army, needs to think about and prepare for. Six kinds of contingencies have since...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Williams,Phil, U.S. Army War College -Strategic Studies Institute Carlisle United...
Many cities are growing into mega land areas filled with complex terrain and populations where the U.S. military will undoubtedly have to engage. Often, states fail to provide basic services to some territories, leaving inhabitants disenfranchised. These gaps are then filled by social entrepreneurs, often ethnic or religious-based civil society groupsor even organized crime syndicateswho effectively identify niche needs in the marketplace and fill them more effectively than other competitors,...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Chido,Diane E, U.S. Army War College -Strategic Studies Institute Carlisle United...
In early 2015, the U.S. Army War College (USAWC), at the request of the former Army Chief of Staff, General Raymond Odierno, published Project 1704, a study that discussed the changing strategic environment in Europe spawned by Russian aggression against Ukraine. The chief questions addressed by Project 1704 included: (1) What is the Russian strategy in the region? (2) What is the appropriate North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and U.S. response? (3) What are the implications for NATO and...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Mastriano,Douglas, U.S. Army War College -Strategic Studies Institute Carlisle United...
In the aftermath of the ousting of dictatorial regimes in 2011, the fragile political and security situations in Tunisia and Libya have contributed to the emergence of new threats that menace the stability of both countries and of their neighbors. Severe terrorist incidents have become frequent throughout the region. To name but one incident, the borders that Algeria shares with those two countries exposed it to a major terrorist attack on the Tiguentourine gas facility in January 2013.
Topics: DTIC Archive, El-Katiri,Mohammed, U.S. Army War College -Strategic Studies Institute Carlisle...
The Military Health System (MHS) is required to provide medical operational forces for military and contingency operations while also providing services that maintain a healthy military force while also caring for a beneficiary population of over 9 million military personnel, dependents, and retirees. The relationship of these competing missions is to some degree adversarial. The most obvious example of the competition between the beneficiary and operational missions is the U.S. Army's...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Nessen,Shawn C, U.S. Army War College Carlisle Barracks United States, combat...
Latin Americas expanding political, economic, and military relationships with actors outside the Western Hemisphere have been an important part of the dynamics of globalization in the post-Cold War world. For the U.S. military and U.S. political leaders, understanding those dynamics and the challenges, opportunities, and vulnerabilities they imply is an important part of managing U.S. security in a complex and increasingly interdependent world. While Chinese, Russian, and Iranian activities in...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Ellis,R E, U.S. Army War College -Strategic Studies Institute Carlisle United States,...
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Alan Watt~Cutting Through the Matrix~1569~July 3, 2016 "Cutting Through the Matrix" with Alan Watt (Blurb, i.e. Educational Talk) "A Severe Study of Pandora's Dreams May Preserve Sanity from Cabal's Schemes - Part 1" © Alan Watt July 3, 2016
Topics: Reality - Class Structure - Total Control of System - H.G. Wells - Full Spectrum Dominance - Obama...
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Alan Watt ~Blurb~ Your Thoughts Are Not Your Own, May 18, 2007 May 18, 2007 Alan Watt Blurb (i.e. Educational Talk) "Your Thoughts are Not Your Own - They're Just a-passin' Through - It's the Elite's New Science, Electronic Voodoo" © Alan Watt May 18, 2007
Topics: Political Control based on Modern Weaponry, Military-Industrial Complex, Pulsed Energy Weapons,...
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Teaching all strategy, from grand to military, is essential in the preparation of national security professionals and military leaders. The experience of the armed forces in recent wars recommends that those involved with the system of military education seriously study the way strategy is taught. The task is even more imperative because the ambiguous conflicts and the complex geopolitical environment of the future are likely to challenge the community of strategists, civilian as well as...
Topics: SSI, strategic studies, defense policy, teaching strategy, U.S. Army War College, Gabriel Marcella
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This edition of the U. S. Army War College Guide to National Security Policy and Strategy continues to reflect the structure and approach of the core national security strategy and policy curriculum at the War College. The fourth edition is published in two volumes that correspond roughly to the Department of National Security and Strategyâs core courses: âTheory of War and Strategyâ and âNational Security Policy and Strategy.â Like previous editions, this one is largely an expansion of...
Topics: SSI, Volume 1, strategic studies, defense policy, U.S. Army War College, USAWC Guide
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This edition of the U. S. Army War College Guide to National Security Policy and Strategy continues to reflect the structure and approach of the core national security strategy and policy curriculum at the War College. The fourth edition is published in two volumes that correspond roughly to the Department of National Security and Strategyâs core courses: âTheory of War and Strategyâ and âNational Security Policy and Strategy.â Like previous editions, this one is largely an expansion of...
Topics: SSI, Volume 1, strategic studies, defense policy, U.S. Army War College, USAWC Guide
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The character of irregular warfare has challenged the American âway of warâ in a number of ways. Not only does it challenge how U.S. forces fight, it also brings into question the ethical norms that they employ to govern the fighting. The resulting confusion is especially evident in the public debate over the use of force in Iraq and Afghanistan. For example, traditional just war thinking has permitted collateral damage that has undermined the civil order that those military operations are...
Topics: SSI, strategic studies, defense policy, military leadership, U.S. Army War College, Tony Pfaff
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Harry R. Yarger
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At the end of the first decade of the 21st century, the United States is involved in two ongoing wars, faces a significant international terrorist threat, and is witnessing an escalation of international resistance to its leadership of the global world order. Looking out to 2025, many see the potential for a prolonged period of instability as a result of competing economic models, demographics, the rise of new international actors and the resurgence old ones, climate change, and the scarcity of...
Topics: SSI, military power, strategic studies, defense policy, U.S. Army War College, Harry R. Yarger
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Colin S. Gray
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All would-be strategists would benefit by some formal education. However, for education in strategy to be well-directed, it needs to rest upon sound assumptions concerning the eternal nature yet ever shifting character, meaning, and function of strategy, as well as the range of behaviors required for effective strategic performance. The author emphasizes the necessity for strategic education to help develop the strategic approach, the way of thinking that can solve or illuminate strategic...
Topics: SSI, strategic studies, defense policy, U.S. Army War College, strategy theory, Colin S. Gray
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Thomas R. Mockaitis
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Understanding how insurgencies may be brought to a successful conclusion is vital to military strategists and policymakers. This study examines how past insurgencies have ended and how current ones may be resolved. Four ways in which insurgencies have ended are identified. Clear-cut victories for either the government or the insurgents occurred during the era of decolonization, but they seldom happen today. Recent insurgencies have often degenerated into criminal organizations that become...
Topics: SSI, counterinsurgency, insurgencies, strategic studies, defense policy, U.S. Army War College,...
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Matthew Moten
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Colonel Matthew Moten of the West Point History Department has asked why so many other professions have clear statements of professional responsibility, but the Army officer corps does not. This essay briefly surveys the history of the Armyâs professional ethic, focusing primarily on the officer corps. It assesses todayâs strategic, professional, and ethical environment. Then it argues that a clear statement of the Army officersâ professional ethic is especially necessary in a time when the...
Topics: SSI, strategic studies, defense policy, U.S. Army War College, Matthew Moten, u.s. army...
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Jason C. Howk
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This paper provides a case study to help explain the SSR concepts that were recently formalized in U.S. Army Field Manual 3.07, "Stability Operations Doctrine." It provides insights into how the military interacts with host-nation governments, the United Nations, the State Department, and national embassies to solve todayâs complex problems. The authorâs experience revealed many pitfalls in security sector building and international team-building that we are trying to avoid today....
Topics: SSI, strategic studies, defense policy, security sector reform, U.S. Army War College, Jason C. Howk
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Nadia Schadlow
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In this analysis, the author identifies some of the contining obstacles to achieving civil-military integration in war. She argues that there are continuing disagreements about who should lead the shaping of the political landscape in war, and that while doctrine has advanced in this area, good doctrine does not guarantee the effective execution of governance-related tasks. Sound operational approaches are required as well.
Topics: SSI, wartime, strategic studies, defense policy, U.S. Army War College, civil-military integration,...
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Joel R. Hillison
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This monograph examines the burden-sharing of new members in NATO. Qualitative and quantitative methods are used to test the hypothesis that new NATO members are burden-sharing at a greater rate than older NATO members. An analysis of the burden-sharing behavior of NATOâs 1999 wave of new members reveals that new NATO members have demonstrated the willingness to contribute to NATO missions, but are often constrained by their limited capabilities. However, new member contributions to NATO have...
Topics: NATO, SSI, strategic studies, defense policy, U.S. Army War College, security studies, Joel R....
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The author explores the centrality of Human Intelligence in meeting the needs of the U.S. Army, the Department of Defense, and the whole of government. Such intelligence is essential to create a national security strategy, to define whole of government policies, to acquire the right capabilities at the right price in time to be useful, and to conduct local and global operations. He outlines 15 distinct types of HUMINT, four of which are classified (defensive and offensive counterintelligence,...
Topics: SSI, HUMINT, strategic studies, defense policy, U.S. Army War College, human intelligence, Robert...
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Roger N. McDermott
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Kazakhstanâs foreign policy, since its independence, has successfully avoided favoring any one country based on what Astana styles as a âmulti-vectoredâ approach to foreign policy. Yet, in terms of its conduct of defense and security policies, this paradigm simply does not fit with how the regime makes policy in its most sensitive areas of security cooperation. Indeed, its closest defense ties are still with Russia, which have deepened and intensified at a bilateral level, as well as through...
Topics: Kazakhstan, SSI, Strategic Studies, Defense Policy, U.S. Army War College, Military Capabilities,...
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Unfortunately, a nuclear terrorist act is only oneâand hardly the most probableâof several frightening security threats Pakistan now faces or poses. We know that traditional acts of terrorism and conventional military crises in Southwest Asia have nearly escalated into wars and, more recently, even threatened Indian and Pakistani nuclear use. Certainly, the war jitters that attended the recent terrorist attacks against Mumbai highlighted the nexus between conventional terrorism and war. For...
Topics: Pakistan, India, Defense, SSI, nuclear power, U.S. Army War College, strategic studies, Henry D....
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Ann Marlowe
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This monograph is based on interviews with David Galulaâs surviving family and friends as well as archival research. It places Galulaâs two great books in the context of his exposure to Maoâs doctrine of revolutionary warfare in China, the French Armyâs keen interest in counterinsurgency in the second half of the 1950s, and the transmission of French doctrine to the U.S. military in the early 1960s. It also discusses home-grown American counterinsurgency pioneers like General Edward...
Topics: Biography, SSI, counterinsurgency, strategic studies, defense policy, U.S. Army War College, David...
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Phillip R. Cuccia
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NATO officials plan to unveil the new NATO Strategic Concept during the Allianceâs summit in Portugal at the end of this year. This monograph focuses on the impact of what the Strategic Concept will have on the Alliance. This analysis describes recent trends within NATO and their implications. The monograph provides senior military and political leaders with a discussion of the changing composition of the NATO nations and the impact of these changes on the nature of the Alliance. This...
Topics: NATO, SSI, strategic studies, defense policy, U.S. Army War College, NATO strategic concept,...
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W. Andrew Terrill
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The Iraq war has been one of the dominant factors influencing U.S. strategic thinking in the Middle East and globally since 2003. Yet the problems of this highly dynamic and fluid war have sometimes forced U.S. policymakers to address near-term issues that cannot be safely postponed at the expense of long-term strategic thought. Such a technique, while understandable, cannot continue indefinitely as an approach to policy. Long-term planning remains vital for advancing regionwide U.S. and Iraqi...
Topics: Iraq Middle East, National Security, U.S. policy, SSI, Strategic Studies, Defense Policy, U.S. Army...
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Justin Kelly, Michael James Brennan
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The publication of the 1982 version of Army Field Manual (FM) 100-5, Operations, introduced to the English-speaking world the idea of an operational level of war encompassing the planning and conduct of campaigns and major operations. It was followed 3 years later by the introduction of the term âoperational artâ which was, in practice, the skillful management of the operational level of war. This conception of an identifiably separate level of war that defined the jurisdiction of the...
Topics: SSI, strategic studies, defense policy, U.S. Army War College, operational art, Justin Kelly,...
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Hal Brands
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The current political dynamics in Latin America is analyzed, and their meaning for the United States is evaluated. The author argues that references to a uniform âleft turnâ in the region are misleading, and that Latin America is actually witnessing a dynamic competition between two very different forms of governance. Represented by leaders like Hugo Chávez, Evo Morales, and others, radical populism emphasizes the politics of grievance and a penchant for extreme solutions. Moderate,...
Topics: SSI, Populism, Latin America, strategic studies, defense policy, U.S. Army War College, U.S....
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Hal Brands
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This monograph analyzes Brazilian grand strategy under President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. During Lulaâs nearly 8 years in office, he has pursued a multi-tiered grand strategy aimed at hastening the transition from unipolarity to a multipolar order in which international rules, norms, and institutions are more favorable to Brazilian interests. Lula has done so by emphasizing three diplomatic strategies: soft-balancing, coalition-building, and seeking to position Brazil as the leader of a...
Topics: Brazil, SSI, strategic studies, defense policy, U.S. Army War College, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva,...
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As currently interpreted, it is difficult to see why the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) warrants much support as a nonproliferation convention. Most foreign ministries, including that of Iran and the United States, insist that Article IV of the NPT recognizes the âinalienable rightâ of all states to develop âpeaceful nuclear energy.â This includes money-losing activities, such as nuclear fuel reprocessing, which can bring countries to the very brink of acquiring nuclear weapons. If...
Topics: SSI, NPT, nuclear, security, nuclear nonproliferation, strategic studies, defense policy, U.S. Army...
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Moving beyond âunity of effortâ and âunity of command,â this monograph identifies an overarching need for âunity of vision.â Without someone at the helm who has a certain kind--not turn, not frame, but kind--of mind, asymmetric confrontations will be hard (if not impossible) to win. If visionary generals can be said to possess âcoup dâoeil,â then unity of vision is cross-cultural coup dâoeil. As with strategic insight, either individuals have the ability to take what they know of...
Topics: SSI, strategic studies, defense policy, U.S. Army War College, Anna Simons, unity of vision, policy...
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Russia, despite claims made for and against its importance, remains, by any objective standard, a key player in world affairs. Russia is an important barometer of trends in world politics, e.g., the course of democratization in the world. Furthermore, Russia, if it were so disposed, could be the abettor and/or supporter of a host of negative trends in the world today. Even so, if U.S. policymakers and analysts see Russia more as a spoiler than as a constructive partner (whether rightly or...
Topics: Russia, SSI, security policy, strategic studies, defense policy, U.S. Army War College, Stephen J....
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In light of the ongoing threats issued by al-Qaeda (AQ) against the United States and its allies, the need to prevent the radicalization of young Muslim men and women remains as pressing as ever, and perhaps nowhere is this task more urgent than in the countries of West Africa. The global expanse of the ongoing war on terror places these territories in the frontline. With large Muslim populations that have hitherto remained mostly impervious to the advances of Islamism, the challenge now...
Topics: Sufism, Nigeria, SSI, Africa, West Africa, strategic studies, defense policy, U.S. Army War...
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The author takes a fresh look at Japanâs decision for war in 1941, and concludes that it was dictated by Japanese pride and the threatened economic destruction of Japan by the United States. He believes that Japanese aggression in East Asia was the root cause of the Pacific War, but argues that the road to war in 1941 was built on American as well as Japanese miscalculations and that both sides suffered from cultural ignorance and racial arrogance. He finds that the Americans underestimated...
Topics: WWII, Japan, SSI, American Foreign Policy, Strategic Studies, Defense Policy, East Asia, U.S. Army...
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Nicholas J. Armstrong, Jacqueline Chura-Beaver
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Current research and available tools for transition in post-conflict situations are analyzed. The authors make a significant contribution to the field by providing a broadly applicable definition of transition and a comprehensive assessment of the existing approaches and literature on the topic. Most importantly, their analysis lays the groundwork for future conceptual development and improved implementation of post-conflict transitions. To evaluate transition strategies and make...
Topics: SSI, strategic studies, defense policy, U.S. Army War College, post-conflict transitions, Nicholas...
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Hal Brands
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Guatemala is currently experiencing a full-blown crisis of the democratic state. An unholy trinity of criminal elementsâinternational drug traffickers, domestically based organized crime syndicates, and youth gangsâis effectively waging a form of irregular warfare against government institutions, with devastating consequences. The police, the judiciary, and entire local and departmental governments are rife with criminal infiltrators; murder statistics have surpassed civil-war levels in...
Topics: Gangs, SSI, Guatemala, organized crime, strategic studies, defense policy, drug trafficking, U.S....
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Casey Wardynski, David S. Lyle, Michael J. Colarusso
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In our proposed Army Officer Corps Strategy, we established the interdependency of accessing, developing, retaining and employing talented leaders. Before exploring each of those functions in greater detail, however, we must first define âtalent.â In our view, talent is something possessed by everyone. In fact, each individual has a unique distribution of talent across three dimensionsâskills, knowledge, and behaviors. Effective organizations understand this. They successfully access and...
Topics: SSI, strategic studies, defense policy, army officer, U.S. Army War College, Casey Wardynski, David...
