| The Danger of Deja Vu: Why the Iraq Surge is Not a Lesson for Afghanistan |
Jan 2010 |
4 pages |
| Authors:
Charles D Allen; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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 | During the past year, we have seen our U.S. national security establishment ponder the question of what to do next in Afghanistan. With the January inauguration, a new president became commander in chief and sought to fulfill his promise to refocus on the necessary war. President Barack Obama initially adopted the bulk of the theater strategy that was put in place by the Bush administration and, in March, he provided ... |
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| Human Dimensions of Strategic Leadership: A Selected Bibliography |
Jan 2010 |
31 pages |
| Authors:
Lenore Garder; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The Human Dimensions of Strategic Leadership is a recurring theme in the curriculum of the U.S. Army War College. This selected bibliography reflects books, documents, periodical articles, multimedia, and web sites relating to this topic. With a few exceptions for important documents, the materials cited in this bibliography are dated 2006 to the present. For older materials, please see previous versions of this bibliography at the USAWC Library home page. ... |
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| What's the Matter with Being a Strategist (Now)? |
Jan 2010 |
16 pages |
| Authors:
Charles P Moore; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| American strategic competence is in decline. Twenty years after victory in the Cold War, a victory brought about by the shrewd use of state power and alliances while ably balancing international and domestic pressures, the United States now is struggling to find the right balance of military force and other forms of power in its current wars, while peering into an uncertain future. Despite a rich history, the role of ... |
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| The Engagement of Military Voice |
Jan 2010 |
16 pages |
| Authors:
Charles D Allen; Breena E Coates; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Distinctive operational competencies from the civilian and military sectors provide usable knowledge to both. When military voice (in the form of counsel, advice, guidance, and suggestions) is given appropriate credence, unique capabilities flow easily back to the civilian leaders of the armed forces. When voice and counsel are muted or constrained, the information flow will entropy and valuable knowledge will be lost. Using military experience as case studies, this article ... |
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| In Search of the Art and Science of Strategic Communication |
Jan 2010 |
13 pages |
| Authors:
Dennis M Murphy; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Strategic communication in the Department of Defense clearly has moved forward under the tutelage of Secretary Robert Gates. In a far-ranging speech at the University of Kansas in November 2007, Dr. Gates bemoaned the inability of the United States to communicate to the rest of the world what we are about as a society and a culture. Had the discussion ended there, a legitimate impression may have been conveyed that ... |
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| The NFP Strategic Leader |
Jan 2010 |
14 pages |
| Authors:
R Craig Bullis; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Individual self-awareness is a strategic leader's greatest asset, and the importance of efforts to enhance such awareness is clearly demonstrated by research concluding that leaders have significant effects on the competitive advantage of organizations. Organizations that ensure leader development are degrees better at mission accomplishment than those that focus their attention elsewhere. Optimizing strategic leader development efforts, therefore, is a fundamental challenge for almost all large organizations in today's environment. ... |
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| A Historical Basis for Force Requirements in Counterinsurgency |
Jan 2010 |
14 pages |
| Authors:
Steven M Goode; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Over the last eight years, one question has repeatedly come up in regard to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: How many soldiers are enough? The question was first raised before the Iraq war started, with highly publicized disagreements between senior military leaders regarding the number of forces needed to secure Iraq after the invasion. The debate reached another peak when the ?surge? strategy was announced. It has once again ... |
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| Contractors as Military Professionals? |
Jan 2010 |
18 pages |
| Authors:
Schaub; Gary Jr; Volker Franke; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| As of 2008, nearly 200,000 private contractors supported or supplemented military operations in Iraq, with about 30,000 of them providing security services. Today, civilian contractors working for the Pentagon outnumber uniformed forces in Afghanistan. Doug Brooks, president of the International Peace Operations Association, the private security industry's trade organization, suggests that the booming private security industry is here to stay. Nations have employed civilian contractors to fulfill combat and combat ... |
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| The Cultural Imperative for Professional Military Education and Leader Development |
Jan 2010 |
13 pages |
| Authors:
Allison Abbe; Standley M Halpin; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| There is emerging agreement within the military services that culture is an important factor in irregular warfare and stability, support, transition, and reconstruction operations. Sociocultural factors affect every level of engagement in irregular warfare, from the interpersonal interactions while negotiating with local leaders, military advisers training their counterparts, to group and societal engagements during strategic communication and influence operations. The impact of these factors has been widely recognized at every ... |
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| Terrorism: A Selected Bibliography |
Dec 2009 |
40 pages |
| Authors:
Greta H Andrusyszyn; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Terrorism: A Selected Bibliography provides citations for information about various types of terrorism, related strategies, and other issues. It was compiled for students and researchers to expand their knowledge of this extremely important topic. With certain exceptions, the materials listed in this bibliography are dated from 2005 to the present. All items are available through the USAWC Library. For your convenience, we have added call numbers, Internet addresses, or database ... |
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| A Strategy of Tactics: Population-centric COIN and the Army |
Oct-2009 |
14 pages |
| Authors:
Gian P Gentile; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Population-centric counterinsurgency (COIN) has become the American Army's new way of war. The principles and ideas that emerged out of the Army's counterinsurgency field manual (FM), FM 3-24, published in late 2006, have become transcendent. The field manual has moved beyond simple Army doctrine for countering insurgencies to become the defining characteristic of the Army's new way of war. In the American Army today, everyone is a counterinsurgent. It is ... |
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| Conventional Deterrence in the Second Nuclear Age |
Oct-2009 |
18 pages |
| Authors:
Michael S Gerson; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Deterrence is once again a topic of discussion and debate among US defense and policy communities. Although the concept has received comparatively little attention since the end of the Cold War, it seems poised to take center stage in America's national security policy during the coming decades. With two ongoing wars already straining the military, concerns about a recalcitrant and militarized Russia, Iran's continued uranium enrichment activities, North Korea's nascent ... |
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| Beyond Population Engagement: Understanding Counterinsurgency |
Oct-2009 |
15 pages |
| Authors:
Heather S Gregg; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The US military has made considerable progress in developing counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy and doctrine, including the publication of Army Field Manual 3-24 and the military's successes in working with the population to stem the insurgency in Iraq. The short-term goals of COIN are now fairly well understood: engage the population and win their support. Whichever side wins the support of the population-either the host nation (and US forces that support ... |
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| To Stay a Soldier |
Oct-2009 |
11 pages |
| Authors:
Chuck Callahan; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Doc, if you try to take me out of the 82d, you'll be hearing from my congressman. The young soldier with tattooed arms strained against the bedrails, his eyes searching the doctor's face above, his twisted, purplish leg surrounded by a black steel cage of bolts and rods that held his shattered bones together. He was one of many men and women wheeled from surgery to therapy to their rooms ... |
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| The Defense Identity Crisis: It's a Hybrid World |
Oct-2009 |
15 pages |
| Authors:
Nathan Freier; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The defense enterprise is abuzz with lively debates on hybrid threats and hybrid war. Yet, newly emergent defense trends do not automatically merit exquisite definitions, new doctrine, or new operating concepts. As Frank Hoffman implies, such a caveat might be true of hybrid warfare. Hybrid war may not yet be reducible to a pristine, doctrine-ready definition. Continued efforts by Hoffman and others to describe it, however, remain invaluable.2 This trend ... |
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| An Ever-Expanding War: Legal Aspects of Online Strategic Communication |
Jun-2009 |
18 pages |
| Authors:
Daniel Silverberg; Joseph Heimann; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Senior US leadership is redefining the war on terrorism as a global counterinsurgency effort, one that requires smart power collaboration by agencies. Although the requirement for interagency cooperation is a near-truism of US national security policy, finding the appropriate role for the Department of Defense (DOD) remains a challenge. This article examines one aspect of activities that potentially overlap with other government departments, DOD's growing involvement in the battle of ... |
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| Intermodal War: Assessing Containerized Power Projection |
27-May-2009 |
31 pages |
| Authors:
James L Evenson; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The successes of American military power in recent years relied greatly on the effective movement of massive quantities of materiel. Trucks, trains, and ships carrying intermodal containers delivered most of this materiel. The commercial transportation industry developed this intermodal support capability over time beginning with the introduction of the railroads in the early nineteenth century. The military quickly adapted the various ongoing developments for martial purposes. Since those earliest developments ... |
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| Taking Up the Security Challenge of Climate Change |
26-May-2009 |
41 pages |
| Authors:
Rymn J Parsons; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Climate change, in which man-made global warming is a major factor, will likely have dramatic and long-lasting consequences with profound security implications, making it a challenge the United States must urgently take up. The security implications will be most pronounced in places where the effects of climate change are greatest, particularly in weak states that are already vulnerable to environmental destabilization. Two things are vitally important: stemming the tide of ... |
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| Reform of the Army Physical Disability Evaluation System |
24-May-2009 |
29 pages |
| Authors:
James A Polo; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The medical disability evaluation process for Army Soldiers has been a source of significant confusion and frustration for many years. Although the United States Army Physical Disability Agency was not established until 1967, the historical roots contributing to this problem can be traced to the post-Civil War era. The increased number of Soldiers requiring disability consideration as a result of injuries sustained during current contingency operations has brought renewed attention ... |
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| Making the 12 Month Mobilization Policy Work |
20-May-2009 |
34 pages |
| Authors:
Blair; Estus T III; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| From the beginning of the United States of America, the citizen Soldier (National Guard) has played a vital role in its protection at home and abroad. Since the United States announced Global War on Terrorism, the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have required the deployment of over 428,000 Soldiers of the Army National Guard (ARNG) to support the war effort. During their first rotation, reserve Soldiers spent 15 to ... |
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| Retooling DoD and VA Disability Compensation Systems |
19-May-2009 |
30 pages |
| Authors:
Hal D Baird; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The DoD and VA disability compensation systems fail to adequately compensate veterans' service-connected disabilities. The DoD disability compensation system provides benefits for soldiers prematurely separated due to a service-connected disability, while the VA disability compensation system compensates veterans for the average impairments of earning capacity resulting from service-connected disabilities. This paper examines appropriateness of disability compensation provided by DoD and the VA measured against the actual losses of disabled veterans. ... |
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| Middle Eastern Energy Security: Synchronizing Domestic and Foreign Policy |
18-May-2009 |
29 pages |
| Authors:
Craig E Bennett; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| U.S. interests in the Middle East are numerous, yet the long-standing vital interest of energy security trumps them all. Increased global competition for limited Middle Eastern energy resources threatens this vital interest. The U.S. approach to Middle Eastern energy security has flaws because of a lack of synchronization between domestic and foreign policy. This paper first discusses challenges presented by supply, demand and the myths surrounding oil independence. It then ... |
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| Brazil's National Defense Strategy -- A Deepening of Civilian Control |
15-May-2009 |
34 pages |
| Authors:
Ham; Linwood Jr; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The Brazilian military dictatorships of 1964-1985 established a national security strategy to modernize the country and populate the vast central and western areas of Brazil. Today's strategy similarly seeks to use the military as a means to advance grand national objectives. Under the leadership of President Luiz Inacio da Silva and Defense Minister Nelson Jobim, elected Brazilian officials will seize the mantle of civilian control of the military and provide ... |
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| Rethinking the Use of Specialized Civil Affairs |
11-May-2009 |
28 pages |
| Authors:
Richard Unda; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Specialized Civil Affairs (CA) Soldiers are reservists who have contributed greatly to post-war operations throughout history. Recent efforts have shifted away from civil-military operations (CMO), typically led by CA Soldiers, to more broad and advanced reconstruction and stabilization operations (R/S OPS) led by civilians with civil-sector expertise. The requirement for civilian expertise certainly exists, but the resulting move to more generalized CA operations brings about concern. This project examines several ... |
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| Interagency Coordination in the Case of an Intentional Agroterrorist Incident |
11-May-2009 |
27 pages |
| Authors:
Robin K King; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Agriculture in the United States has a tremendous importance in the economic well being of the country. Agroterrorism is defined as an attack against livestock or crops. Though an agroterrorist incident doesn't make the same statement as an attack against human targets, it would be fairly easy to perform. United States agriculture is particularly susceptible in an intentional terrorist event. Though there are many directives and plans in place to ... |
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| Strategic Leadership Principles to Shape the Future |
11-May-2009 |
27 pages |
| Authors:
Carl R Rau; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, but about certain essential leadership principles that every leader must learn and develop to become an effective leader. Leaders are made, not born, yet few people make the necessary sacrifices of hard work and commitment to become successful leaders. This paper examines strategic leadership principals, along with qualities fundamental to them, from the perspectives of business, sports, politics, religion, and the ... |
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| Empowering United States Public Diplomacy for the War of Ideas |
11-May-2009 |
33 pages |
| Authors:
Douglas W Little; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Former President George W. Bush described the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) as more than a battle of arms. The GWOT also is a war of ideas, and the United States Government must implement effective public diplomacy if it is going to win it. Eight years into the GWOT, international polling data demonstrate the United States' failure to gain substantive ground in the war of ideas. Years of marginalizing public ... |
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| Manning Army National Guard Units for Deployment |
11-May-2009 |
29 pages |
| Authors:
Kelly C MacNealy; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Reliance on the Army National Guard (ARNG) to meet the Army's needs in the Global War on Terrorism since 9/11 has transformed the ARNG from a strategic reserve to an operational force. The Army developed the Force Generation (ARFORGEN) model as a way to generate ready forces from all three Army components to meet global force requirements. However, the protracted Global War on Terrorism has compounded the Army National Guard's ... |
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| Lowering the Retirement Age for Military Reservists |
11-May-2009 |
25 pages |
| Authors:
Sylvester Cannon; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Normally, military reservists who perform at least 20 years of creditable service are eligible to receive retirement pay once they have reached the age of 60. For some military reservists this could mean waiting an additional 22 years before receiving retirement pay after completing 20 years of active military service. By contrast, retired active duty military personnel can start receiving retirement pay the month following their completion of 20 years ... |
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| The 'Torture Memos': A Failure of Strategic Leadership |
11-May-2009 |
37 pages |
| Authors:
K Krewer; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| This paper examines the development of U.S. interrogation policy, beginning with initial determinations concerning the application of the Geneva Conventions and continuing through several Department of Justice opinions collectively known as the torture memos. The paper examines the influence of these memos on policy formulation. The memos are reviewed in light of professional standards for attorneys and applicable international treaties, customary rules for prisoner treatment, and constitutional provisions relating to ... |
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| Speed Versus Accuracy: A Zero Sum Game |
11-May-2009 |
29 pages |
| Authors:
Jeffrey L Scott; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Accuracy maintains the required credibility for an effective information strategy. Speed provides current, relevant information to inform and influence key populations. The requirement and role of speed and accuracy create a zero sum game in information strategy. With the importance of information in today's irregular warfare environment, an effective information strategy is based on decentralization. Operations planned and conducted and the daily interactions of the units and Soldiers on the ... |
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| The Generals' Revolt and Civil-Military Relations |
11-May-2009 |
33 pages |
| Authors:
Lewis R Snyder; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The Generals' Revolt resulted from a crisis in civil-military relations precipitated by a Secretary of Defense who discounted the experience and knowledge of key strategic leaders and refused to accept or even listen to divergent opinion. The gradual and continual politicization of the military along with a decline in military professionalism and ethical decision-making also contributed to setting the conditions for the revolt. As the nation moves forward under the ... |
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| Reintegrating America's Citizen-Soldiers and Airmen: A Community Effort |
10-May-2009 |
29 pages |
| Authors:
Jeffrey E Ireland; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| America's National Guard has answered the call to duty for the past 372 years. In times of peace and in war, the National Guard stands ready to respond. Today, Guardsmen across the country serve honorably on the frontlines of the Global War on Terrorism. Their presence on the battlefield fulfills their federal obligations; however, the programs used to reintegrate our hometown heroes are incomplete. Record cases of suicides, broken marriages, ... |
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| The Causes and Dynamics of Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa |
10-May-2009 |
31 pages |
| Authors:
Arthur T Moe; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Pervasive conflict throughout much of Sub-Saharan Africa defies easy resolution due to a unique web of factors. Poor governance, ethnic rivalry, mismanagement of land and natural resources, declining economic conditions, and widespread poverty and famine form a daunting bulwark against stability. In recent centuries, much of the western world rose above these destabilizing factors because of socio-political-economic stability gained from two trends: the spread of constitutional democracy and economic globalization. ... |
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| Economic Collision: Competition between the United States and China |
09-May-2009 |
30 pages |
| Authors:
Ruth A Neugebauer; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| As China continues to rise on the international scene, competition between the United States and China becomes increasingly intense. This is true not only from a military perspective, but also from an economic one as China strives to become a global economic power. The competition has become more obvious recently due to the global economic recession and enormous fluctuations in natural resource commodity pricing over the past 12 months. China ... |
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| Military and the Media - What's Next After Embedding? |
08-May-2009 |
36 pages |
| Authors:
Thomas C Jr; Beane; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The Department of Defense made a breakthrough in the military-media battlefield relationship during Operation Iraqi Freedom through the use of embedded media. The Embedded Media Program allowed journalists to be on the front lines with the different services prior to, during and after military combat operations. Both the military and media's initial feedback deemed the program a success and believe all future military operations will use embedded media. This paper ... |
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| Importance of Seabasing to Land Power Generation |
06-May-2009 |
37 pages |
| Authors:
Michael F Perry; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| In 1954, Samuel P. Huntington reconsidered the classic strategies of naval warfare and urged the U.S. Navy to focus upon sea-based support of land power generation (Seabasing), since it lacked a peer competitor on the high seas in the wake of World War II. Yet, over 50 years later, the U.S. Navy and the Department of Defense are still struggling to clearly define Seabasing and overcome an array of difficulties ... |
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| Alternative Energy and Propulsion Power for Today's US Military |
05-May-2009 |
62 pages |
| Authors:
Gregory M Fields; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| This intent of this paper is to provide a cogent argument for why the US military needs to aggressively pursue alternate forms of energy and propulsion power technologies that will dramatically reduce or eliminate the current dependence on foreign petroleum. The research and analysis centered on the premise that the US military, for decades, has been severely constrained by the burden of traditional fossil-fuel-using technologies, which greatly lessens its ability ... |
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| Operation Market Garden: Case Study for Analyzing Senior Leader Responsibilities |
04-May-2009 |
46 pages |
| Authors:
Elizabeth A Coble; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| With German forces on the run following the Allied success at Normandy and the breakout and pursuit across France, Allied forces were staged to enter Germany in late summer 1944. Both Field Marshal Montgomery and General Bradley clamored to be given the priority of effort. General Eisenhower chose Montgomery's Operation MARKET GARDEN as the plan for action. It called for airborne forces to open the route for a ground force ... |
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| Ethanol: A Strategic Energy Source? |
04-May-2009 |
29 pages |
| Authors:
Anthony A Wickham; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| As an element of our energy security policy, the United States should encourage the development of alternative energy sources for future U.S. energy needs. The present administration cites our dependence on oil as one of our critical national weaknesses. Our international standing and economic stability will improve if we can discover plentiful renewable energy sources that eventually reduce global demand for oil. Ethanol is one of several possibilities for achieving ... |
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| Ungoverned Spaces in Guatemala and U.S. National Security |
04-May-2009 |
29 pages |
| Authors:
Matthew B Greco; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| A nation's inability to enforce sovereignty over its territory and the ungoverned spaces that this problem engenders pose clear threats to both the developing and the developed world. This paper argues that ungoverned spaces in Guatemala have serious implications for that Central American nation's internal security and threaten vital interests and. ultimately, the national security of the United States. The paper begins with an examination of the negative implications that ... |
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| Changing the Educational Paradigm in an Era of Persistent Conflict |
01-May-2009 |
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| Authors:
David S Henderson; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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 | Units trained in branch core competencies contribute to the overall ability of a Brigade Combat Team to achieve its missions. However, the conflict in Iraq has caused some units to be re-missioned to tasks not related to their core competencies. These units, most notably Field Artillery units, are now experiencing an atrophy of core skills. This atrophy, combined with a high operational tempo and repetitive non-standard mission deployments, is creating ... |
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| Measuring the Success of Warrior Transition Units |
30-Apr-2009 |
27 pages |
| Authors:
Suzanne K Shaw; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| In April 2007, the U.S. Army Medical Command (MEDCOM) established the first Warrior Transition Unit (WTU) to facilitate improvements in care for the Army's wounded, ill and injured Soldiers. Since then, 35 WTUs and nine Community Based Warrior Transition Units (CBWTU) have been established around the country. The continued success of any unit requires a constant assessment and analysis of effectiveness. The purpose of this essay is to demonstrate that ... |
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| Pre-Conflict Peace Building as a Mission for USACE |
29-Apr-2009 |
40 pages |
| Authors:
Nick M Panasiuk; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has a long history of vital service to the United States of America. In order to stay relevant, ready, responsive, and reliable over the years, the Corps has adapted its organization, missions, and skills sets to meet requirements in support of the national interests of the United States. As the new Administration's use of the elements of power in pursuit of national ... |
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| Utilities Privatization-Is the US Army on the Right Circuit? |
29-Apr-2009 |
74 pages |
| Authors:
Frederick A Puthoff; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| This paper discusses the Department of Defense (DoD) utilities privatization program with a focus on the United States (US) Army's utilities privatization progress including its history, current status, effectiveness, management, and issues. In the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998, Congress approved legislation authorizing DoD to privatize its 2,600 utility systems valued at $50 billion. This legislation was followed by the Department of Defense Reform Initiative Directive (DRID) ... |
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| The Neutrality Act: A Tool to Implement Policy |
28-Apr-2009 |
30 pages |
| Authors:
Robert M Twiss; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Historically, the United States has maintained a national security policy that no one may conduct or initiate from the United States any military expedition against any foreign nation or people with whom the United States is at peace. The objective of the policy is to prevent entanglements between the United States and foreign powers, or with the relations between a nation-state and its insurgent people, in such a way that ... |
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| Filling Irregular Warfare's Interagency Gaps |
28-Apr-2009 |
29 pages |
| Authors:
Lewis G Irwin; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The interagency process is failing in the execution of irregular warfare. Most proposed solutions to this major problem emphasize increasingly complex bureaucratic coordinating mechanisms, increased capacity within agencies ill-suited to the required tasks, or unrealistic calls for intensified senior leader attention and centralized oversight. These solutions also rest upon faulty assumptions that make them unlikely to succeed, given the realities of the key agencies' existing organizational cultures, expertise, resources, and ... |
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| American Nation Building in Afghanistan |
18-Apr-2009 |
33 pages |
| Authors:
Richard L Phillips; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Nation building efforts in Afghanistan depend on three pillars, securing the country, building the economy and establishing good governance. Each is dependent on the other. Coordinating the international efforts to achieve each pillar's goals is a daunting task. Coalition countries maintain separate and individual agendas that impede coordinated nation building efforts. Corruption is wide spread and threatens national security and the government legitimacy. Little or no oversight of government activities ... |
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| Wasting Time: Black Participation in the Combat Arms Branches |
15-Apr-2009 |
30 pages |
| Authors:
White; Randolph C Jr; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Perception, as senior Army leaders are fond of saying, is reality. African American/Black representation and subsequent advancement in the combat arms branches of the U.S. Army is woefully lacking. Black accessions into the combat arms branches is minuscule, and the numbers of Black combat arms officers who advance in key leadership/command positions at the battalion and brigade command level and higher are token at best. It is a historical fact ... |
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| Modifying Intratheater Airlift for Irregular Warfare |
14-Apr-2009 |
30 pages |
| Authors:
Steven H Stater; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The U.S. Air Force (USAF) plays a vital role in irregular warfare (IW) and must change its focus to maximize its contributions. The USAF's greatest contributions in IW include the following: kinetic effects from a variety of aircraft; intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR); and airlift. Airlift provides a significant asymmetric advantage, enabling commanders to rapidly deploy, sustain, redeploy, and evacuate land forces. The primary form of airlift for these operations ... |
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