| Powell's Leadership Principles -- Time for State Department to Revisit |
20-Jan-2009 |
37 pages |
| Authors:
Michelle L Stefanick; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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 | Since the end of the Cold War, study after study has described the Department of State as an institution improperly staffed, trained, and resourced to sufficiently and adequately address the national security challenges of the 21st century. What all these external reports lack, however, is a review of the internal cultural change needed within the Department of State. Under Secretary of State Colin Powell's tenure this cultural change process was ... |
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| Synchronizing USG Efforts Toward Collaborative Healthcare Policy Making in Iraq |
15-Jan-2009 |
58 pages |
| Authors:
Thomas S Bundt; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| A primary pillar to achieving strategic aims in Iraq is through the reestablishment of a functional healthcare system. Currently, no set corporate solution exists including all agencies pertaining to a universally acceptable strategic health policy in support of this objective. Healthcare is an elemental component of basic human needs and should be accessible, affordable, and capable. Following combat operations and phasing into stabilization operations, basic healthcare infrastructure and systems have ... |
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| Defining and Deterring Cyber War |
06-Jan-2009 |
40 pages |
| Authors:
Scott W Beidleman; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Since the advent of the Internet in the 1990s, not all users have acted in cyberspace for peaceful purposes. In fact, the threat and impact of attack in and through cyberspace has continuously grown to the extent that cyberspace has emerged as a setting for war on par with land, sea, air, and space, with increasing potential to damage the national security of states, as illustrated by attacks on Estonia ... |
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| Creative Thinking for Individuals and Teams. An Essay on Creative Thinking for Military Professionals |
Jan 2009 |
14 pages |
| Authors:
Charles D Allen; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Leadership at all levels is involved with tackling existing problems and anticipating threats and opportunities that may emerge for the organization and the attainment of its goals. Rarely are those problems identical; many important issues facing strategic leaders require novel approaches. Consequently, solutions to tough problems require creativity and innovation from members of an organization if it is to adapt and thrive in a competitive landscape. The greater challenge for ... |
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| A Generation of Peace in the Sinai |
17-Dec-2008 |
35 pages |
| Authors:
Benjamin J Corell; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Israel has faced persistent conflict from multiple external threats since its inception as a nation. Working collectively and over time, these external threats have overtly and covertly focused on isolating, weakening, and destroying the Israeli state. For a significant period of time, one of the major threats poised against Israel came from the nation of Egypt. Why is it that there now seems to be a sustained peace between the ... |
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| Training America's Strategic Corporals |
10-Dec-2008 |
33 pages |
| Authors:
David G Bolgiano; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| In the asymmetric environment - from traditional peacekeeping to counterinsurgency (COIN) - American service members are thrust into situations where they must make use of deadly force decisions that are analogous to civilian law enforcement operations. Despite mandatory guidance from the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff that commanders, at all levels, shall ensure that individuals within their respective units understand and are trained on when and how to use force ... |
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| America's Soft Underbelly: Economic Espionage |
10-Dec-2008 |
34 pages |
| Authors:
Kevin J Degnan; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| As economic markets fluctuate and globalization continues to stretch and stress U.S. corporations due to increased competition, the security of corporate and sensitive U.S. technology is increasingly a matter of national security. Threats to sensitive U.S. technologies come not only from our enemies, but from our allies and free market competitors. U.S. industries are a priority for economic espionage and very often a priority target for our adversaries. Foreign companies ... |
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| Strategic Implications of Japan Amending Its Constitution |
09-Dec-2008 |
37 pages |
| Authors:
Richard Matton; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| At the end of World War II, Japan adopted a Constitution that forever renounced the threat or use of force as a means of settling international disputes. This Constitution has resulted in Japan fully relying on the United States to preserve peace in the region. On the surface, the notion of Japan removing the no war clause from its Constitution seems to be in the best interests of the United ... |
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| Bankruptcy Through Other Means: The Government's Overreaction to 9/11 |
02-Dec-2008 |
43 pages |
| Authors:
Christopher D Long; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The 9/11 attack is one of two events in U.S. history that is unmatched in terms of its psychological impact and associated loss of life. Its aftermath is also unmatched in terms of the government's dramatic overreaction. This overreaction entailed costly governmental reorganization, mobilization for war, and relaxed lending standards designed to spur an economy that fundamentally did not need such intervention. Additionally, the government borrowed from entitlement programs to ... |
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| International Relations: Advancing Foreign Area Officers to Flag Officer Rank |
30-Nov-2008 |
26 pages |
| Authors:
Tarek Mekhail; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Army leadership currently assigns operational career field general officers (GO) as the United States Senior Defense Official (SDO) in several countries in United States Central Command's (USCENTCOM) Area of Responsibility (AOR). Although these officers are superb in their career field, this paper will argue that today's Middle East Foreign Area Officer (FAO) is far better qualified to serve as the SDO in these critical operational and strategic level GO positions. ... |
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| Bureaucracies at War: Organizing for Strategic Success in Afghanistan |
13-Nov-2008 |
44 pages |
| Authors:
Donald C Bolduc; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The collapse of the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan in 2001 led to the challenges of creating and then maintaining a stable, safe, and secure environment for the people of that nation. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) and the International Security Assistance Force's (ISAF) failure to organize and establish the unity of command and unity of purpose needed to implement under an effective counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy has resulted ... |
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| Assessing Cultural Change in the United States Army Recruiting Command |
10-Nov-2008 |
33 pages |
| Authors:
Fred Johnson; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| This paper will investigate culture as it pertains to the United States Army Recruiting Command (USAREC). USAREC will be considered exclusively because of its unique mission. It will be argued that USAREC's distinct task of recruiting civilians to serve in an All Volunteer Force (AVF) has produced a culture that is dissimilar to the rest of the Army. Further, it will be argued that this contrast produces significant challenges for ... |
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| Effects-based Operations: More Important Than Ever |
Sep-2008 |
11 pages |
| Authors:
Tomislav Z Ruby; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Whether effects-based operations (EBO) and the effects-based approach to planning have led to negative warfighting results is a topic well worth our collective time and study. In fact, it is a healthy activity of any defense institution to question and evaluate its doctrine, policy, and procedures. The current debate on EBO brought about by General James N. Mattis's memorandum to US Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) directing the elimination of the ... |
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| USJFCOM Commander's Guidance for Effects-based Operations |
Sep-2008 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
James N Mattis; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Herein are my thoughts and commander's guidance regarding effects-based operations (EBO). This article is designed to provide the US Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) staff with clear guidance and a new direction on how EBO will be addressed in joint doctrine and used in joint training, concept development, and experimentation. I am convinced that the various interpretations of EBO have caused confusion throughout the joint force and among our multinational partners ... |
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| Global Counterinsurgency: Strategic Clarity for the Long War |
Sep-2008 |
18 pages |
| Authors:
Daniel S Roper; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Though policy initiatives since the attacks of 11 September 2001 have positively influenced certain agencies and processes within the US government in their efforts to secure America, some steps have worked at cross purposes and limited the nation's effectiveness in countering the threats it faces.1 One entrenched policy that inhibits clear analysis and understanding of the threat is the continued framing of this global struggle as a War on Terrorism ... |
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| Leadership as an Emergent Phenomenon: A Framework for Complexity and Adaptability |
01-Jun-2008 |
51 pages |
| Authors:
Sandra M Martinez; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The recognition by some military leaders about the need for a different paradigm of leadership that responds to requirements for adaptability in complex environments has not necessarily translated into action. Existing organizational structures and processes which explicitly and tacitly support current ways of thinking and patterns of behavior often present obstacles to transformation. Nevertheless, changing the framework, structure, and processes in and by which a new generation of leaders are ... |
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| The Figure 8 Model of International Relations |
22-May-2008 |
41 pages |
| Authors:
Jerome T Sibayan; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The 20th century is described within a model of international relations using power scales to define the conditions of the international system. These power scales are circumscribed by political informational military and economic definitions. Models improve our understanding of empirical phenomena instilling discipline in our thinking. The Figure 8 Model is presented first in a Cartesian format and then in geometrical form. This model is an intuitive idea based on ... |
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| KLEPSUDRA: How the Rio Grande Treaty Increased Instability in Mexico |
09-May-2008 |
41 pages |
| Authors:
Mark A Anspach; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| In the late 19th century, the United States Congress recognized that water was the essential element for bringing the and west" into productive use and building the nation's power. For the last 100-years the United States has successfully maintained a massive water management and reclamation scheme in the western states. Central to this is a 1944 treaty with Mexico which stipulates water allocations and rights between the two countries. The ... |
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| Opportunities and Risks for the Employment of Private Security Companies in Complex Contingencies |
09-May-2008 |
33 pages |
| Authors:
Christopher T Mayer; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| This century has seen a shift from conventional forms of war and humanitarian interventions to complex contingencies. Combat, humanitarian assistance, and reconstruction operations often occur in parallel. Protection of noncombatant personnel, supplies, and facilities against terrorists, looting, and other lawlessness grows in importance while the availability of military forces cannot meet the demand for these critical, but non-core functions. To address this shortfall, the United States and other international actors ... |
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| Self-Evident Truths: Why We Can Stop Worrying and Love the Posse Comitatus Act |
09-May-2008 |
39 pages |
| Authors:
Chris R Gentry; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| This paper asserts that U.S. Government policy prohibiting active participation of the Armed Forces in civilian law enforcement operations, codified in the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, should remain intact. The author presents an analysis that outlines the evolution of legal theory and acts pertaining to the use of the military in domestic crises and past and current applications of military force in the United States. The paper further examines ... |
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| The Red Scourge Returns: The Strategic Challenge of Maoist Insurgency in India and South Asia |
09-May-2008 |
41 pages |
| Authors:
William R Florig; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| With the United States and other powers focused on the struggle against Islamic terrorism and insurgency, the effects of globalization have swelled the ranks of Maoist insurgents in India and South Asia. The response of some marginalized peoples in these countries, having been abandoned by their national socioeconomic and political systems, is to look to the alternative system provided by Maoist insurgents who are creating a counter-state to address societal ... |
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| Defend the Approaches! |
09-May-2008 |
27 pages |
| Authors:
Mark A Patterson; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| A large number of embarkation sites where Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) could be loaded on vessels bound for the United States exist. Unfortunately, there are insufficient U.S. Navy assets to interdict such vessels unless extremely reliable and highly detailed intelligence were available. Consequently, effective defense against ocean-borne WMD requires U.S. Navy assets operating closer to the mainland and U.S. territories to provide for better discrimination by Maritime Interdiction Operations ... |
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| The Role of the National Defense Stockpile in the Supply of Strategic and Critical Materials |
09-May-2008 |
33 pages |
| Authors:
Scott F Romans; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The United States has maintained a stockpile of strategic and critical matenals primarily ores and minernls since 1939. Since the end of the Cold War the United States government has determined that most of the materials in the National Defense Stockpile (NDS) were excess to defense industrial and essential civilian needs and has begun selling and otherwise disposing of most of the stockpiled materials. Recent concerns regarding the global availability ... |
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| Achieving DoD's Net Centric Vision of Information Sharing While Overcoming Cultural Biases to Control Information |
09-May-2008 |
31 pages |
| Authors:
Paul M Shaw; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The Global War on Terrorism and countering other threats is increasingly dependent upon better information sharing within and between agencies. US national and agency information sharing strategies promote culture change as a critical enabler. A culture change from a "need to know' to a "need to share" is the desired end state. This culture change is in contrast to known organizational and individual cultural biases to control information. Within the ... |
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| Understanding and Managing North Korea's Nuclear Ambitions |
09-May-2008 |
31 pages |
| Authors:
Glenn E Witt; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The February 2007 agreement reached with North Korea to shut down its nuclear reactor and give up its nuclear weapons program was heralded by many as a significant breakthrough following the shock of North Korea's nuclear weapons test in October of the previous year. This optimistic assessment, however, fails to consider the significant hurdles that will confront negotiators as they attempt to fulfill the promise of the February accord. The ... |
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| The United States' Rejection of the International Criminal Court: A Strategic Error |
09-May-2008 |
35 pages |
| Authors:
Rickey Watson; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Throughout the Twentieth Century the international community struggled to find a method of ensuring that those responsible for brutal war crimes and atrocities were held responsible for their actions. These efforts coalesced into the Rome Conference where the international community sought to fashion an institution that would have the authority to accomplish these tasks but not trample individual sovereignty. The United States was a major part of these negotiations but ... |
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| Democracy in Hugo Chavez's Venezuela: Developing or Faltering Due to His Politics, Activities, and Rhetoric? |
07-May-2008 |
31 pages |
| Authors:
R N David; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Since 1999, Hugo Chavez has been serving as the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. During his reign, Chavez, a member of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, has made many dramatic changes to the nearly 50-year-old democracy, including nationalizing several key industries, stripping the judicial branch of a number of powers, limiting free speech, and governing by decree. He also proposed a constitutional amendment to increase the term ... |
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| It's the Economy that Matters Most |
07-May-2008 |
43 pages |
| Authors:
Richard J Holdren; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Three sets of security challenges face the United States: the current challenge of winning the "long war," potential security challenges identified by U.S. strategy documents, and unforeseen or uncertain events which can shock the system. This paper argues that the best way to mitigate risk across a broad range of current, identifiable, and uncertain security challenges is to develop a national strategy that focuses on developing an adaptive, responsive economy. ... |
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| Acquisition Reform: Is It Living Up to Expectations |
21 APR 2008 |
31 pages |
| Authors:
Michael E. Zarbo; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Within the Department of Defense and U.S. Army acquisition communities this paper will examine if gaps exist between those who are chartered to accurately relay warfighter requirements to those who are entrusted to deliver these capabilities quickly and cost effectively. If there are gaps, why and how do we fix them? Next, this paper will explore if training within the acquisition community is adequate. If not, how can it be ... |
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| A Way Ahead for National Emergency Communications |
17-Apr-2008 |
29 pages |
| Authors:
Burt A Biebuyck; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Effective communications are essential to the success of any large-scale military operation. The shared situational awareness enabled by effective communication is as critical to successful emergency response operations as it is to victory in combat. Important decisions made by government leaders in times of federal disaster are dependent upon acquiring and maintaining effective emergency communications. Like many other government policy issues, however, this area is a complex challenge complicated by ... |
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| The Tri-Model Framework for International Analysis |
13 APR 2008 |
35 pages |
| Authors:
Daniel Thomas; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Since the end of the Cold War, observers and analysts of international politics and national security affairs have struggled with the resulting changes in state behavior and organization. In retrospect, the Cold War period, and indeed, the period of great industrialized nation states, was short lived. During previous generations, society generally organized itself as religious groupings and ethnic tribes, with dynastic rulers nested as subsets within these groups. Economic organizations ... |
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| Synchronizing Sustainment Operations |
10 APR 2008 |
31 pages |
| Authors:
Steven M. Elkins; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The purpose of this project is to analyze sustainment synchronization methodologies between Army of Excellence and Modular sustainment organizations. This paper examines relationships between Army of Excellence and Modular sustainment organizations within the Army's Service Component Command. The examination includes: (1) Historical review of the evolving logistics transformation architecture; (2) Review of evolving sustainment roles between modular division and logistics organizations; (3) Review of emerging doctrine that defines roles between ... |
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| A Century in Reserve and Beyond |
10 APR 2008 |
33 pages |
| Authors:
James P. Monagle; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Tracing the concept of the reserve from the early days of the nation, from the Constitutional debates of the 18th and 19th centuries, and from the legislation leading to the establishment of the Army Reserve, this Strategy Research Project (SRP) describes the role of the Army Reserve from its beginning as a reserve corps of medical doctors to that of a strategic reserve force, and then to its current operational ... |
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| How Afghanistan Can Assume Ownership for the Ongoing Conflict |
10 APR 2008 |
27 pages |
| Authors:
Sr Horn John M.; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| In view of United States global commitments and larger Global War on Terror (GWOT) strategy, the ultimate security goal in Afghanistan must be for the Afghans to assume ownership of the counterinsurgency struggle. The United States and coalition partners are fighting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to achieve several national security goals; 1) champion human dignity, 2) strengthen alliances to defeat global terrorism and prevent future attacks against the United ... |
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| Challenges for Civil-Military Integration During Stability Operations |
10-Apr-2008 |
42 pages |
| Authors:
Timothy A Vuono; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The US military will continue to play the leading role in stabilization and reconstruction missions in hostile environments. Past efforts to achieve an effective integration of interagency capabilities for these missions have been limited at best. There is a critical need for fully integrated interagency efforts at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels that go well beyond past attempts at mere civil-military cooperation or collaboration. This paper focuses on how ... |
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| Causes and Possible Solutions to the Middle East Terrorism |
07 APR 2008 |
28 pages |
| Authors:
Ahmad Al-Thagafi; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Terrorism has become a major security issue and world problem. The focus of this research paper will be on the roots of terrorism and what I believe are the causes of terrorism. I will attempt to analyze the causes of terrorism in general and, specifically, the causes of terrorism in the Middle East. One aspect of the Mideast region is the relationship between terrorism and armed struggle to liberate the ... |
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| Merging the Military Health System (MHS) and the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) into a Single Governance Structure |
07-Apr-2008 |
80 pages |
| Authors:
William B Grimes; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The Department of Defense (DoD) and Veterans Affairs (VA) health care systems share many missions and characteristics. Both are large, complex organizations with a combined Fiscal Year (FY) 2008 budget of over 76 billion dollars. The two systems employ a total of over 300,000 personnel, and treat nearly 13.5 million designated beneficiaries at more than 1,600 sites worldwide. Both face the challenges of health care systems everywhere: new practices, techniques, ... |
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| Know Before You Go: Improving Army Officer Sociocultural Knowledge |
04 APR 2008 |
51 pages |
| Authors:
James C. Laughrey; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The U.S. entered Afghanistan and Iraq with poor language capabilities and knowledge of both nation's cultures, and this cultural knowledge and language capability are critical enablers in a counterinsurgency campaign. According to numerous defense experts and senior Defense officials, we are in an age of "persistent conflict" where our most likely wars, like those in Iraq and Afghanistan, will be fought "among the people." Knowledge of the cultures and language ... |
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| The Effects of Doctrine on International Security Assistance Force Operations |
04 APR 2008 |
31 pages |
| Authors:
Grady King; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) currently leads the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan. The primary role of ISAF is to support and assist the Government of Afghanistan in providing and maintaining a secure environment. The purpose of this operation is to facilitate the rebuilding of Afghanistan, the establishment of democratic structures, and the expansion of the central government's influence. While these political objectives are fairly clear, the ... |
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| The Installation Funding Dilemma |
04-Apr-2008 |
42 pages |
| Authors:
Joseph P Moore; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Five years after the U.S. Army created the Installation Management Agency in 2003 inadequate funding continues to constrain improvement in Army infrastructure and installation services. Unfortunately, the resulting pressures imposed on the Army's operations and maintenance and military construction (MILCON) accounts have inflicted a detrimental effect upon installation support. However, this is not only a recent phenomenon nor is it likely to change soon. The recurrent necessity to finance competing ... |
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| Non-Offensive Defense and Nonviolence Response to Terrorism |
03 APR 2008 |
31 pages |
| Authors:
Najib Mahmood; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The end of the Cold War and the events of 9/11 have provided strategic planners with unprecedented challenges and opportunities. One such challenge is how to deal with an elusive enemy that has no recognizable territory or organized army, yet has shown a remarkable resilience against traditional military firepower. On the other hand, the post-Gold War era has provided us with enormous peace dividends that can be utilized to enhance ... |
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| Resistance to Organizational Cultural Change in the Military -- A JFO Case Study |
02-Apr-2008 |
35 pages |
| Authors:
Jeffrey Kelly; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Change is hard but senior leaders must master the task of cultural change management to keep their organizations viable in the future. Leaders must realize that change will often be met with resistance by the organization because the organization strives to maintain consistency and stability. Also, leaders must understand the importance of organizational climate and culture when introducing change to prevent a reduction in morale and organizational effectiveness. Leaders must ... |
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| Leading Generation Y |
01 APR 2008 |
33 pages |
| Authors:
Jill M. Newman; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The Army's ranks at the junior grades are filled with a new generation Regardless of their. initial motivation to serve, the Army must adapt its culture, training and leadership to accommodate an emerging new generational workforce - Generation Y. Adapting to Generation Y will ensure that the Army continues to recruit, retain and develop its rising forces to "own" the Army of the future. Whether referred to as the Millennial ... |
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| Responding to Globalization: The U.S. Military as a Business |
01 APR 2008 |
29 pages |
| Authors:
Frederick J. Gellert; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is a major employer and on many levels must perform as if it is a large business corporation. American business is changing as globalization affects workers, managers, production, sales, resources, and corporate culture. As an organization, what must the U.S. military do to thrive in a globalized world? This paper reviews the effects of globalization on the defense department and in the focused areas ... |
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| A New Architecture for Improved Human Behavior in Military Simulations |
01 APR 2008 |
41 pages |
| Authors:
Rene G. Burgess; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Warfare has changed for the United States, and with this change has come an increased requirement for military leaders to be able to understand and win wars that are fought in the will of a population more than on the field of mounted warfare. Today's simulations and simulation training environments are insufficient to prepare these leaders for such a complex fight because they do not adequately model the human dimensions ... |
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| China, U.S. and Africa: Competition or Cooperation |
31 MAR 2008 |
31 pages |
| Authors:
Jon W. Walker; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| As the United States has awakened to the extent of China s engagement in Africa, most military and political observers have characterized their relationship in alarmist and negative tones. While China s non-interventionist policy often frustrates U.S. political goals; the U.S. should recognize and capitalize on opportunities to work with China in order to improve African quality of life and standard of living. China's peaceful development has both positive and ... |
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| Taking Guns to a Knife Fight: Effective Military Support to COIN |
31-Mar-2008 |
52 pages |
| Authors:
Joseph H Felter; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The qualities and structures of a state's internal security forces have a significant impact on reducing the risks and overall casualties from insurgent violence. To test this argument, I introduce a new micro-conflict dataset on counterinsurgency operations in the Philippines between 2001 and 2008 and measure the relationship between conflict deaths and the capacities of small military units tasked with suppressing rebel threats at local levels. My empirical tests isolate ... |
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| Prospects from Korean Reunification |
29 MAR 2008 |
45 pages |
| Authors:
David Coghlan; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Throughout the 1990s predictions of Korean reunification were rife. Since then, enthusiasm for such predictions have faded and, although the underlying assumption of reunification remains, forecasts of when and how this will occur have been more subdued. Reunification poses two distinct yet interdependent conundrums: reunification itself, which is the immediate challenge; and the strategic landscape that emerges from reunification which has the potential to fundamentally transform strategic relationships in Northeast ... |
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| BRAC 2005 and the Current Strategic Environment |
29 MAR 2008 |
29 pages |
| Authors:
Jeffery K. Ludwig; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld first asked Congress to consider authorizing another round of Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) in testimony before the House Appropriations Committee in July 2001. Previous BRAC rounds had focused almost exclusively on cost savings via the elimination of excess real property. BRAC 2005 was conceived by Mr Rumsfeld as a vehicle to support Defense transformation and the re-basing of significant US troops from overseas bases ... |
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| Nigeria and the United States: An Analysis of National Goals |
28 MAR 2008 |
43 pages |
| Authors:
John M. McCarthy; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Since the beginning of the 21st century, the continent of Africa has regained its importance to the United States and other developed nations, primarily due to its vast amounts of untapped resources. Nigeria is the largest producer of oil in Africa, and it ranks fifth as a supplier of oil to the United States. Nigeria earns an estimated $40 billion per year from oil and natural gas extraction, although trouble ... |
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