| Global Insurgency Strategy and the Salafi Jihad Movement |
APR 2008 |
265 pages |
| Authors:
Jr Shultz Richard H.; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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 | In this paper, the author differentiates and characterizes terrorists and insurgents, and he conducts a detailed conceptual and historical analysis of insurgency and its current manifestation on a global scale by the Salafi Jihad movement. This work lays out the case that terrorism and insurgency differ, and that the current "long war" is actually being fought by the other side as an insurgency. As a result, the United States must ... |
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| Strategic Culture and Violent Non-State Actors: Weapons of Mass Destruction and Asymmetrical Operations Concepts and Cases |
FEB 2008 |
101 pages |
| Authors:
James M. Smith; Jerry M. Long; Thomas H. Johnson; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| This Occasional Paper combines three separate threads of analysis on culture and violent nonstate actors as a launching pad to spur further research into this critical arena of culture and security. In the first contribution, "Strategic Culture and Violent NonState Actors: Concepts and Templates for Analysis," James M. Smith lays out a conceptual basis and a series of templates for guiding the analysis of culture and violent nonstate actors. These ... |
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| Information Warfare Arms Control: Risks and Costs |
MAR 2006 |
76 pages |
| Authors:
Maxie C. Thom; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| Since the end of the 1991 Gulf War, information warfare has taken a prominent role in transforming the military as envisioned in Joint Vision 2010. However, due to the rapid changes in information technologies and the low cost, wide availability and high payoff of information warfare weapons, some have seen it as a destabilizing influence and have called for international arms control agreements to govern its use. Although the international ... |
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| International Security Negotiations: Lessons Learned from Negotiating with the Russians on Nuclear Arms |
FEB 2006 |
110 pages |
| Authors:
Michael O. Wheeler; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| This paper examines arms control and non-proliferation negotiations during and after the Cold War. To make the analysis of this vast topic manageable, the discussion concentrates on negotiating with the Russians (recognizing that the USSR was more the Russia) and, primarily, on negotiations to eliminate or control nuclear arms. American Cold War policy was focused largely through the lens of how to contain and deter Russian expansion and aggression. The ... |
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| Biowarfare Lessons, Emerging Biosecurity Issues, and Ways to Monitor Dual-Use Biotechnology Trends in the Future |
SEP 2005 |
76 pages |
| Authors:
Helen E. Purkitt; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| The study summarizes policy lessons for future efforts to monitor possible covert biological warfare programs based on past Iraqi and South African covert biowarfare programs. This comparative case study approach identified several commonalities in past biowarfare programs in developing countries. One was a tendency of governments to recruit some of the brightest students and send them abroad for advanced studies at western universities. This trend changed dramatically after the September ... |
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| Israel's Attack on Osiraq: A Model for Future Preventive Strikes? |
17 AUG 2005 |
77 pages |
| Authors:
Peter S. Ford; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| This is the 59th volume in the Occasional Paper series of the U.S. Air Force Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). Twenty-four years ago, Israeli fighter pilots destroyed the Osiraq nuclear reactor and made a profound statement about global nuclear proliferation. In light of the recent preventive regime change in Iraq, a review of this strike reveals timely lessons for future counterproliferation actions. Using old, new, and primary source evidence, ... |
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| The Sources of Islamic Revolutionary Conduct |
APR 2005 |
210 pages |
| Authors:
Stephen P. Lambert; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| Democracy refuses to think strategically unless and until compelled to do so for the purposes of defense. In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself; that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to ... |
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| The Worried Well: Strategies for Installation Commanders |
2005 |
73 pages |
| Authors:
Fran Pilch; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| The question concerning the most effective strategies that should be employed by base commanders to mitigate problems involving the worried well in the event of a biological weapons attack is important and critical. The anthrax crisis following on the heels of the devastating terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, drew attention to the very real possibility of the use of biological weapons by terrorist or criminal elements seeking to disrupt ... |
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| Armed Groups: A Tier-One Security Priority |
SEP 2004 |
105 pages |
| Authors:
Richard H. Shultz; Douglas Farah; Itamara V. Lochard; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| This is the 57th volume in the Occasional Paper series of the U.S. Air Force Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). Richard Shultz, Douglas Farah, and Itamara Lochard offered this paper for INSS publication because they saw it as complementary to two previous papers that INSS has published: Troy Thomas and Stephen Kiser's "Lords of the Silk Route" (Occasional Paper 43, May 2002); and Troy Thomas and William Casebeer's "Violent ... |
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| Perspectives on Arms Control |
JUL 2004 |
151 pages |
| Authors:
Michael O. Wheeler; James M. Smith; Glen M. Segell; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| This is the 55th volume in the Occasional Paper series of the U.S. Air Force Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). For the past three years INSS has organized, sponsored, and/or participated in panels addressing arms control and strategic security issues at annual meetings of the International Studies Association (ISA) and its subordinate International Security Studies Section. The purpose of this effort is to keep the study and analysis of ... |
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| India's Emerging Security Strategy, Missile Defense, and Arms Control |
JUN 2004 |
99 pages |
| Authors:
Stephen F. Burgess; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| This is the 54th volume in the Occasional Paper series of the U.S. Air Force Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). The focus of this paper is on the strategic context of South Asia, a region that increasingly sits at the center of United States security concerns. India is the world's largest democracy (in terms of population), a regional power with both realized and additional potential relevance to United States ... |
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| Violent Systems: Defeating Terrorists, Insurgents, and Other Non-State Adversaries |
MAR 2004 |
113 pages |
| Authors:
Troy S. Thomas; William D. Casebeer; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| This is the 52nd volume in the Occasional Paper series of the U.S. Air Force Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). This paper continues the work begun by Troy Thomas and Stephen Kiser in "Lords of the Silk Route: Violent Non-State Actors in Central Asia" (INSS Occasional Paper 43, May 2002). Inter-state war no longer dominates the landscape of modern conflict. Rather, collective violence and challenges to the international system ... |
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| Effects, Targets, and Tools: A Primer for US Strategy and an Application Examining the Security Dynamics of Northeast Asia |
JUN 2003 |
87 pages |
| Authors:
Thomas A. Drohan; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| This is the 50th fiftieth volume in the Occasional Paper series of the United States Air Force Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). For this milestone volume, it is fitting that this paper represents all three pillars of the INSS mission statement. As indicated in the full statement below, the three pillars are quality research, development of a strategic perspective (particularly within the uniformed military), and furtherance of informed discourse ... |
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| Arms Control without Arms Control: The Failure of the Biological Weapons Convention Protocol and a New Paradigm for Fighting the Threat of Biological Weapons |
MAR 2003 |
125 pages |
| Authors:
Guy B. Roberts; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| This is the 49th volume in the Occasional Paper series of the U.S. Air Force Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). Among the many dimensions of national security that face unprecedented changes and challenges after the end of the Cold War, arms control has been as directly affected as any other dimension. The formal, bilateral, and verification-based arms control that was so central to that former period fits neither the ... |
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| View from the East: Arab Perceptions of United States Presence and Policy |
FEB 2003 |
99 pages |
| Authors:
Brent J. Talbot; Michael B. Meyer; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| This is the 48th volume in the Occasional Paper series of the U.S. Air Force Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). This timely and insightful set of papers written by two USAF area specialists provides complementary -- and together comprehensive -- coverage of the critical topic of Arab perceptions of United States policy. Further, the papers expand that coverage to address in detail some of the implications of those perceptions ... |
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| Northeast Asia Regional Security and the United States Military: Context, Presence, and Roles |
NOV 2002 |
149 pages |
| Authors:
Susan F. Bryant; Russell D. Howard; Jay M. Parker; Albert S. Wilner; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| This is the 47th volume in the Occasional Paper series of the United States Air Force Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). Among its many contributions to United States security, two noted repositories of strategic expertise within the United States Army are its foreign area officer cadre and the Department of Social Sciences faculty at the United States Military Academy. This collection of papers on Northeast Asian regional security taps ... |
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| Tactical Nuclear Weapons: Debunking the Mythology |
AUG 2002 |
43 pages |
| Authors:
John T. Cappello; Gwendolyn M. Hall; Stephen P. Lambert; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| This is the 46th volume in the Occasional Paper series of the United States Air Force Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). This paper review nuclear weapons and deterrence strategy in the post-Cold War world. In this project, the authors acknowledge the special psychological properties of nuclear weapons and the fact that detonation of any nuclear weapon, to include a tactical nuclear weapon, would be a "strategic" event. The paper ... |
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| "Squaring the Circle": Cooperative Security and Military Operations |
JUL 2002 |
53 pages |
| Authors:
Jeffrey D. McCausland; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| This is the 45th volume in the Occasional Paper series of the United States Air Force Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). This paper examines the real and potential tensions that exist between military operations and existing arms control agreements. It focuses on conventional arms control since military operations during hostilities is where limitations have potentially the greatest effect. This focus on conventional arms control further implies that the agreements ... |
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| "All Our Tomorrows": A Long-Range Forecast of Global Trends Affecting Arms Control Technology |
JUN 2002 |
59 pages |
| Authors:
James M. Smith; Jeffrey A. Larsen; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| This is the 44th volume in the Occasional Paper series of the United States Air Force Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). This report summarizes a three-phase research project undertaken by the USAF Institute for National Security Studies on behalf of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to forecast long-range global trends affecting arms control technologies. The report projects the international political, economic, and scientific environments to the year 2015. It ... |
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| Lords of the Silk Route: Violent Non-State Actors in Central Asia |
MAY 2002 |
142 pages |
| Authors:
Troy S. Thomas; Stephen D. Kiser; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| This is the 43rd volume in the Occasional Paper series of the U.S. Air Force Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). This paper, while it reports the results of research undertaken across the year prior to the events of September 11 and their aftermath, presents an analysis that is both timely and relevant given those events. This important paper represents the kind of original thinking that this Institute was designed ... |
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| United States Military Space: Into the Twenty-First Century |
2002 |
169 pages |
| Authors:
Peter L. Hays; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| This is the 42nd volume in the Occasional Paper series of the U.S. Air Force Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). This volume presents two important papers on United States military space. The first paper, "What is Spacepower and Does It Constitute a Revolution in Military Affairs?", examines the concept of "spacepower" as it is emerging within the U.S. military and business sectors to establish the basis for military space ... |
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| The Common European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) |
JUL 2001 |
54 pages |
| Authors:
Edward G. Gunning Jr; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| This is the 41st volume in the Occasional Paper series of the U.S. Air Force Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). As the United States continues to adjust to its role in the post-Cold War world, the transatlantic partnership remains fundamental to U.S. security concerns. Commander Gunning's paper is a wake-up call suggesting that Europe is concerned about U.S. intransigence when it comes the security partnership with Europe. While the ... |
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| Arms Control Implications for Military Operations in Space |
MAY 2001 |
69 pages |
| Authors:
Thomas W. Billick; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| International treaties and agreements frequently have a limiting effect on U.S. military flexibility. The constraints imposed by arms control agreements are often misunderstood and subject to interpretation, particularly in connection with military operations in space. There is a prevailing misconception, even with the defense community, that existing agreements and international law prohibit the U.S. from fully exercising its ability to control and exploit the space medium. Current and future limitations ... |
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| Aerospace Power in Urban Warfare: Beware the Hornet's Nest |
MAY 2001 |
63 pages |
| Authors:
Peter C. Hunt; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| This is the 39th volume in the Occasional Paper series of the U.S. Air Force Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). Aerospace power has emerged as a primary military instrument of choice in pursuing national objectives within the complex international security environment entering the 21st century. Changes in the security landscape, the dynamics of sub-theater conflicts, and coalition imperatives combine to place new requirements on aerospace operational planning and the ... |
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| The Terrorism Threat and U.S. Government Response: Operational and Organizational Factors |
MAR 2001 |
173 pages |
| Authors:
James M. Smith; William C. Thomas; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| The dual mission of the USAF Institute for National Security Studies is to promote national security research for the Department of Defense within the military academic community and to support the Air Force national security education program. INSS coordinates and focuses outside thinking in various disciplines and across services to develop new ideas for USAF and DOD policy making. Located within the staff of the Dean of the Faculty at ... |
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| This Arms Control Dog Won't Hunt: The Proposed Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty at the Conference on Disarmament |
JAN 2001 |
77 pages |
| Authors:
Guy B. Roberts; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| This is the 36th volume in the Occasional Paper series of the U.S. Air Force Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). This paper is particularly timely, as it addresses emerging issues based in the changing forms and norms of post-Cold War arms control. These issues confront United States strategic planners and the national security policy community today, and they promise to have increasing impact into the future. As traditional arms ... |
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| SLUMLOARDS: Aerospace Power in Urban Fights |
SEP 2000 |
50 pages |
| Authors:
Troy S. Thomas; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| Airmen know the urban fight. Airmen of 5th Air Force coordinated Marine Corsair strikes in the campaign for Seoul, Korea, 1950. Airmen of 7th Air Force struggled through gloomy skies to put 500 lb bombs on North Vietnamese Army positions in the Citadel of Hue, Vietnam, during the Tet Offensive, 1968. Special Operations airmen directed their Vulcan and Bofors cannons against Panamanian Defense Forces during Operation JUST CAUSE, 1989. Airmen ... |
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| Water: The Hydraulic Parameter of Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa |
SEP 2000 |
69 pages |
| Authors:
Stephen D. Kiser; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| This is the 35th volume in the Occasional Paper series of the U.S. Air Force Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). Water is a primary concern of most governments in the Middle East and North Africa. A myriad of synergistic variables are exponentially increasing demands for water, while simultaneously decreasing the region's ability to supply it. These variables include a rapidly increasing population, a large per capita increase in water ... |
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| Prospects for a Conventional Arms Reduction Treaty and Confidence- Building Measures in Northeast Asia |
AUG 2000 |
65 pages |
| Authors:
Bonnie D. Jenkins; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| This is the 34th volume in the Occasional Paper series of the U.S. Air Force Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). The first of two goals undertaken in the research for this paper is to explore the possibility of establishing in the Northeast Asian region a conventional arms control treaty negotiation leading to an agreement similar to the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty (CFE). It is presumed a reduction in ... |
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| Sharing the Knowledge: Government-Private Sector Partnerships to Enhance Information Security |
MAY 2000 |
77 pages |
| Authors:
Steven M. Rinaldi; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| This is the 33rd volume in the Occasional Paper series of the U.S. Air Force Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). This paper, along with Occasional Paper 32, Richard Aldrich's "Cyberterrorism and Computer Crimes: Issues Surrounding the Establishment of an International Legal Regime," address the context surrounding the question of how the U.S. military responds to the cyber threat facing the American military and society today. The U.S. military has ... |
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| Cyberterrorism and Computer Crimes: Issues Surrounding the Establishment of an International Legal Regime |
APR 2000 |
104 pages |
| Authors:
Richard W. Aldrich; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| This is the 32nd volume in the Occasional Paper series of the U.S. Air Force Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). This paper, along with Occasional Paper 33, Steven Rinaldi's "Sharing the Knowledge: Government-Private Sector Partnerships to Enhance Information Security," address the context surrounding the question of how the U.S. military responds to the cyber threat facing the American military and society today. Rinaldi examines the issues of partnering and ... |
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| The Viability of U.S. Anti-Satellite (ASAT) Policy: Moving Toward Space Control |
JAN 2000 |
46 pages |
| Authors:
Joan Johnson-Freese; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| This is the 30th volume in the Occasional Paper series of the U.S. Air Force Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). It is particularly timely that with the increased emphasis on space within the U.S. Air Force, in light of the ongoing HQ USAF efforts toward air and space integration into a true aerospace force, and in the wake of the 1998 INSS conference "Spacepower for a New Millennium," this ... |
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| The Chinese People's Liberation Army: "Short Arms and Slow Legs" |
SEP 1999 |
60 pages |
| Authors:
Russell D. Howard; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| This is the 28th volume in the Occasional Paper series of the U.S. Air Force Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). As INSS did earlier this year with its publication of two companion papers on NATO, it now offers two complementary studies that address Chinese security developments and U.S.- Chinese relations into the first part of the 21st century. This study, Russ Howard's "The Chinese People's Liberation Army: Short Arms ... |
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| Interpreting Shadows: Arms Control and Defense Planning in a Rapidly Changing Multi-Polar World |
JUN 1999 |
70 pages |
| Authors:
David R. King; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| The focus of arms control is changing. It now deals with issues affecting all nations and not just the super powers. A new framework for approaching non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and arms control could focus on a two-fold policy initiative. The first policy would be a new strategic "triad" built around conventional capability including rapidly deployable forces, regional ballistic missile defense, and long-range precision- strike capability. The second ... |
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| The Next Peace Operation: U.S. Air Force Issues and Perspectives |
MAY 1999 |
64 pages |
| Authors:
William C. Thomas; Jeremy D. Cukierman; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| This study examines the role of the Air Force in future peace operations. The authors draw upon the experience of the US and other nations to improve understanding of how peacekeeping forces operate and shed light on how best to employ American forces. This paper reviews existing US military doctrine and examines the impact on combat readiness. The authors then suggest areas for consideration regarding the preparation for conduct of ... |
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| USAF Institute for National Security Studies 1998 Research Results Conference |
20 NOV 1998 |
292 pages |
| Authors:
INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| The USAF Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), in cooperation with HQ USAF Nuclear and Counterproliferation Directorate, sponsored its 6th annual Research Results Conference on 19 - 20 November 1998. The purpose of this conference was to present research results and highlight the significant accomplishments of a number of researchers sponsored by INSS during fiscal year 1998. The conference included briefings by the authors of their research through panel presentations ... |
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| Counterforce: Locating and Destroying Weapons of Mass Destruction |
AUG 1998 |
60 pages |
| Authors:
Robert W. Chandler; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and advanced conventional weapons and technology are offering potential regional adversaries new operational concepts for countering American power projection. While asymmetric threats pose significant challenges to U.S. military strategy, the U. S. possesses strengths, including the potential to increase the tempo of warfare through long-range precision counterstrikes early in a conflict. In order to defeat a WMD-armed adversary's asymmetric attacks, the U.S. needs ... |
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| A Post-Cold War Nuclear Strategy Model |
JUL 1998 |
76 pages |
| Authors:
Gwendolyn M. Hall; John T. Cappello; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| Conceptualization of nuclear weapons in the post-Cold War environment will require some elements of the old Cold War debate, and some new concerns resulting from the events in the 1990s. The first relevant debate will pertain to classic Cold War arguments about deterrence and its utility. The other part of this conceptualization will be the need to monitor and evaluate the current military, economic, and political situation in Russia. Carefull ... |
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| USAF Culture and Cohesion: Building an Air and Space Force for the 21st Century |
JUN 1998 |
88 pages |
| Authors:
James M. Smith; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| The Air Force has a cohesion problem, and it is firmly rooted in the Air Force culture, subcultures, and organizational dynamics within the diverse, complex entity that is today's USAF. By the late 1980s, the Air Force essence was centered on technology, with splits between pilots and all others, among pilots based on the type of aircraft flown, and with space beginning to assert its claim on a piece of ... |
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| Uncharted Paths, Uncertain Vision: U.S. Military Involvements in Sub- Saharan Africa in the Wake of the Cold War |
MAR 1998 |
88 pages |
| Authors:
Dan Henk; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| Few regions have seen more tragedy in the post-Cold War worlds than parts of sub-Saharan Africa, a region remarkable for the number of external military interventions in the 199Os. The United States has conducted a wide variety of military involvements in the region over the past decade. While humanitarian relief and peace operations have generated the most publicity, other more routine military relationships and activities are of far greater long-term ... |
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| Threat Perceptions in the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore |
SEP 1997 |
76 pages |
| Authors:
William E. Berry Jr; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| Three countries, Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore, each represent a different security relationship with the U.S. The U.S. has had a long security tie with the Philippines. Although there are no longer house American forces, the Mutual Defense Treaty remains in effect. Malaysia has taken a approach to its national security by employing a more neutral orientation by not antagonizing China. Singapore has been more proactive in developing its security ties ... |
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| Nonlethal Weapons: Terms and References |
01 JUL 1997 |
97 pages |
| Authors:
Robert J. Bunker; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| The purpose of this paper is to promote an understanding of and research into a new category of weapons, designated nonlethal by military services, and less than lethal or less lethal by law enforcement agencies. The intent is to create an initial term and reference listing to help support joint force and dual use initiatives focused on identifying the potential drawbacks of integrating nonlethal weapons into our military services and ... |
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| Dual Containment and Iran: Understanding and Assessing Us Policy |
02 JUN 1997 |
76 pages |
| Authors:
Peter J. Bunce; Derel F. Offer; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| Dual Containment is a complex policy by which the United States attempts to simultaneously deal with two hostile nations that are themselves bitter enemies. To analyze the impact of this policy on Iran, one must first unlock its interwoven objectives and consider them in concert with congressional legislation aimed at influencing Iranian behavior. Reality judgements made about the true nature of Iranian behavior that the U.S. deems unacceptable must be ... |
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| China: Future Partnership or Strategic Adversary |
01 JUN 1997 |
49 pages |
| Authors:
Louis R. Volchansky; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| China is poised to become the world's foremost economic power in the twenty-first century. With its burgeoning economic trade surpluses, it poses a security dilemma as it sets upon a course of military modernization. East Asian nations have begun a naval arms race to protect their interests, namely energy and economic sea lines of communication. This places the United States at a crossroads leading either to an economic partnership or ... |
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| Environmental Federalism and U.S. Military Installations: A Framework for Compliance |
JUN 1997 |
49 pages |
| Authors:
James M. Smith; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| Recent regulatory trends and political decisions have resulted in devolution of environmental regulation responsibility from the federal government to the states. The resulting compliance situation for the military is one of multiple bureaucracies, layered regulations, duplicated reporting requirements, and conflicting mission priorities, all in a "business" in which there is an inherent potential for significant environmental damage. The military official charged with environmental compliance is responding to many masters and ... |
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| Russia's Crumbling Tactical Nuclear Weapons Complex: An Opportunity for Arms Control |
APR 1997 |
56 pages |
| Authors:
Stephen P. Lambert; David A. Miller; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| As politicians and policy makers trumpet the successes of strategic reductions and the achievements of the START agreements, Russia has increasingly focused on a rhetorical and doctrinal campaign to enhance the credibility of nuclear war fighting threats by legitimizing theater or tactical nuclear systems. The Russian Federation is convinced that its security rests upon these weapons, and it has therefore attempted to shield both the personnel and the hardware from ... |
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| Political-Military Affairs Officers and the Air Force: Continued Turbulence in a Vital Career Specialty |
APR 1997 |
63 pages |
| Authors:
James E. Kinzer; Marybeth P. Ulrich; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| The Air Force's system has many deficiencies for preparing and utilizing political-military affairs officers to help develop and implement the military dimensions of US foreign policy. Important policy-making and implementation billets are routinely filled by officers with inadequate education and regional expertise to perform their duties competently. Meanwhile, officers who have acquired such skills remain untapped for sensitive political- military positions due to the personnel system's inability to track them ... |
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| Weapons Proliferation and Organized Crime: The Russian Military and Security Force Dimension |
JUN 1996 |
66 pages |
| Authors:
Graham H. Turbiville Jr; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| One dimension of international security of the post-Cold War era that has not received enough attention is how organized crime facilitates weapons proliferation worldwide. The former Soviet Union (FSU) has emerged as the world's greatest counterproliferation challenge. It contains the best developed links among organized crime, military and security organizations, and weapons proliferation. Furthermore, Russian military and security forces are the principle source of arms becoming available to organized crime ... |
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| Five Minutes Past Midnight: The Clear and Present Danger of Nuclear Weapons Grade Fissile Materials |
FEB 1996 |
85 pages |
| Authors:
Guy B. Roberts; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| Growing stockpiles of nuclear weapons grade fissile materials (plutonium and highly enriched uranium) are a "clear and present danger" to international security. Much of this material is uncontrolled and unsecured in the former Soviet Union (FSU). Access to these materials is the primary technical barrier to a nuclear weapons capability since the technology know-how for a bomb making is available in the world scientific community. Strategies to convince proliferators to ... |
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| Nuclear Proliferation: The Diplomatic Role of Non-Weaponized Programs |
JAN 1996 |
46 pages |
| Authors:
Rosalind R. Reynolds; INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO
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| The end of the Cold War has not seen the end of reliance on nuclear weapons for deterrence or diplomacy purposes. The use of nuclear weapons for such purposes is as evident in the threshold states as in the nuclear powers. The nuclear weapon states used their nuclear weapons for deterrence, bargaining, and blackmail, even during the early years of the Cold War when the U.S. was essentially non-Weaponized. In ... |
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