| Strategic Forum. Number 252, January 2010. Avoiding a Crisis of Confidence in the U.S. Nuclear Deterrent |
Jan 2010 |
7 pages |
| Authors:
Caves; John P Jr; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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 | The United States needs to modernize and ensure the long-term reliability and responsiveness of its aging nuclear deterrent force and nuclear weapons infrastructure. It cannot otherwise safely reduce its nuclear weapons, responsibly ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, confidently deter and contain challenges from rising or resurgent nuclear-armed near peers, and effectively dissuade allies and partners from acquiring their own nuclear weapons. Modernization is fundamental to avoiding a future crisis ... |
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| Strategic Forum. Number 251, December 2009. U.S.-Cambodia Defense Relations: Defining New Possibilities |
Dec 2009 |
7 pages |
| Authors:
Lewis M Stern; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| Cambodia's lax border controls, widespread corruption, extremely active arms trade, and surfeit of small arms remaining from the Third Indochina War have made Phnom Penh an attractive platform for transient interests, as well as a staging ground for numerous activities that challenge the safety and well being of the region. China has actively pursued security ties with Cambodia through modest assistance programs whose significance has been magnified by the lack ... |
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| Strategic Forum. Number 250, November 2009. North Korea: Challenges, Interests, and Policy |
Nov 2009 |
7 pages |
| Authors:
James J Przystup; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| North Korea poses two distinct but interrelated challenges. The first is external: the challenge posed by its nuclear weapons program and the threat of proliferation off the Korean Peninsula. The second is essentially but not wholly internal: the challenge posed by the pending transfer of power in Pyongyang and potential for instability as the process plays out. This complex reality underscores the need for balance and strategic patience if the ... |
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| Unity of Effort: Key to Success in Afghanistan |
Oct-2009 |
13 pages |
| Authors:
Christopher J Lamb; Martin Cinnamond; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| The Barack Obama administration is debating alternatives to the population-centric counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan that it unveiled in March 2009. The reevaluation is prompted by the recent submission of supporting civil and military campaign plans that indicate substantial additional resources are required for success. The resource issue is important, but as General Stanley McChrystal, USA, the new commander of U.S. and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces in Afghanistan, argues, ... |
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| Strategic Forum. Number 247, October 2009. Radicalization by Choice: ISI and the Pakistani Army |
Oct 2009 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Robert B Oakley; Franz-Stefan Gady; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| The Pakistani army and the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate remain essential for the security and stability of Pakistan. Both organizations have deliberately embraced Islamic radicalism as a means to address the conventional military gap between Pakistan and India. Although there are signs of a shift in Pakistan's short-term strategic priorities and recognition that the challenge of homegrown Taliban is not just a U.S. problem, India will remain the focal point of ... |
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| Energy Security Means Energy Interdependence |
24-Sep-2009 |
15 pages |
| Authors:
Robert Bryce; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| The phrases energy security and energy independence have become so hackneyed as to be almost useless. Of course, the overuse of those two phrases has not prevented any number of energy analysts from stepping forward to offer their ideas about what constitutes the ideal level of security and how the US can best achieve the lofty goal of independence. And therein lies the attraction of vague concepts like security and ... |
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| Managing Strategic Competition with China (Strategic Forum, Number 242, July 2009) |
Jul-2009 |
13 pages |
| Authors:
Phillip C Saunders; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| Officials in the Obama administration have highlighted the need for a positive, cooperative, and comprehensive relationship with China that can help the United States address an array of global challenges. Administration officials have not adopted the responsible stakeholder language that characterized recent U.S. China policy, but their overall approach appears compatible with that concept. Initial policy statements have focused on expanding U.S.-China cooperation, with particular emphasis on addressing the global ... |
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| Aligning Disarmament to Nuclear Dangers: Off to a Hasty START? (Strategic Forum, Number 244, July 2009) |
Jul-2009 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
David A Cooper; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| Confronted by a daunting array of nuclear threats, and having pledged to reinvigorate the application of disarmament tools to address these dangers, the Obama administration has decided to focus its initial efforts on negotiating a new bilateral agreement with Russia to replace the Cold War-era Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which expires at the end of this year. Critics have suggested that reviving the U.S.-Russian strategic disarmament agenda is at ... |
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| Diverging Roads: 21st-Century U.S.-Thai Defense Relations (Strategic Forum, Number 241, June 2009) |
Jun-2009 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Lewis M Stern; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| The 175th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce in 2008 was seized by both Thailand and the United States as a reason for celebrating a long and mutually beneficial treaty alliance. This alliance has been defined by the shared though not uncomplicated commitment to democracy and human rights, and the common interest in free and fair trade, all of which inform the tradition of bilateral ... |
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| MRAPs, Irregular Warfare, and Pentagon Reform |
Jun-2009 |
63 pages |
| Authors:
Christopher J Lamb; Matthew J Schmidt; Berit G Fitzsimmons; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| Mine resistant ambush protected (MRAP) vehicles offer an excellent case study for investigating the current debate over the Pentagon's approach to developing and fielding irregular warfare capabilities. MRAPs first gained prominence for their ability to protect U.S. forces from improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and because the Pentagon did not deploy them en masse to Iraq until almost 5 years of fighting had passed. More recently, following extraordinary efforts to field ... |
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| Hybrid Threats: Reconceptualizing the Evolving Character of Modern Conflict (Strategic Forum, Number 240, April 2009) |
Apr-2009 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Frank G Hoffman; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| America's ongoing battles in Afghanistan and Iraq have highlighted limitations in our understanding of the complexity of modern warfare. Furthermore, our cultural prism has retarded the institutionalization of capabilities needed to prevail in stabilization and counterinsurgency missions. An ongoing debate about future threats is often framed as a dichotomous choice between counterinsurgency and conventional war. This oversimplifies defense planning and resource allocation decisions. Instead of fundamentally different approaches, we should ... |
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| The United States and the Asia-Pacific Region: National Interests and Strategic Imperatives (Strategic Forum, Number 239, April 2009) |
Apr-2009 |
7 pages |
| Authors:
James J Przystup; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| Notwithstanding the 2008-2009 financial crisis, East Asia today remains the home of the world's most dynamic economies. In 1990, the region's share of global gross domestic product (GDP) amounted to 26.5 percent; in 2006, that figure stood at 37.5 percent. In 2006, the GDP growth rate for Asia's economies averaged 5.1 percent, compared to a world average of 3.9 percent. Driven in large part by China's economic resurgence and benefiting ... |
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| The Future of Pakistan-U.S. Relations: Opportunities and Challenges |
Apr-2009 |
7 pages |
| Authors:
Maleeha Lodhi; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| Relations between Pakistan and the United States are today defined by a paradox. Never have ties been more vital for both countries. But never has the relationship been so mired in mutual mistrust and suspicion. Both countries acknowledge the crucial importance of each other for the attainment of their respective national objectives. Pakistan is pivotal for the achievement of the key U.S. national security goals of defeating terrorism and stabilizing ... |
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| America's Security Role in a Changing World: A Global Strategic Assessment |
Apr 2009 |
10 pages |
| Authors:
NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| Over the coming decade and beyond, the United States and the international community will face enormously complex security challenges and threats, some of which are not traditionally viewed as security issues. In an effort to assist the Obama administration and international leaders in this new and ambiguous environment, the Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS) at the National Defense University performed a global strategic assessment with the assistance of 125 ... |
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| Saddam's War: An Iraqi Military Perspective of the Iran-Iraq War |
Mar-2009 |
164 pages |
| Authors:
Williamson Murray; Mounir Elkhamri; Thomas Holaday; Kevin M Woods; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| This paper was prepared under the task order Study on Military History (Project 1946) for the National Intelligence Council. It helps address the task order objectives of: developing a series of personal, organizational, and campaign histories of contemporary Iraq; improving and expanding our understanding of Iraq and its region; providing national security organizations with historical background material, political and personality profiles of the region, and data for long-term studies and ... |
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| Perspectives from Fragile Crescent: A South Asia Crisis Simulation |
24 Feb 2009 |
6 pages |
| Authors:
Christopher S Robinson; Steven J Tomisek; Kenneth Kligge; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| The Obama administration has arguably inherited the toughest national security environment since the end of World War II. Instability in Afghanistan and Pakistan has propelled South Asia to the top of a U.S. national security agenda already crowded with a long list of major problems that includes North Korea, Iran, and Iraq. The political, security, and economic trends in Afghanistan and Pakistan have taken a turn for the worse, as ... |
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| Ukraine Against Herself: To Be Euro-Atlantic, Eurasian, or Neutral? (Strategic Forum, Number 238, February 2009) |
Feb-2009 |
13 pages |
| Authors:
Jeffrey Simon; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| Since independence, Ukrainians have been evenly split between those who desire to be part of the Euro-Atlantic (European Union and North Atlantic Treaty Organization) community and those who gravitate toward Eurasia (Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States). During the 1990s, when the European Union and NATO were focused on Central Europe and Russia was politically down and economically weak, Ukraine was able to have it both ways. Since the ... |
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| The United States and the Asia-Pacific Region: Security Strategy for the Obama Administration |
Feb-2009 |
89 pages |
| Authors:
Brad Roberts; James Przystup; Brad Glosserman; Michael A McDevitt; Ralph A Cossa; Nirav Patel; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| Ongoing shifts in geopolitical power from West to East make the Asia-Pacific region more important to the United States today than ever before. The region is already an engine of the global economy, and major Asian countries are becoming global economic and political actors. Yet, as Asia's importance has grown over the last decade, Washington has often been focused elsewhere. The Obama administration needs a more active approach to the ... |
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| Energy and Environmental Insecurity (Joint Force Quarterly, Issue 55, 4th Quarter 2009) |
Jan 2009 |
5 pages |
| Authors:
Richard B Andres; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| Energy security is now a commanding priority. The emerging energy system is far more complex and global than the industrial era system it is slowly replacing. Today, when security planners talk about energy security, they are as likely referring to carbon emissions as to energy self-reliance and affordable oil. Moreover, the solutions that the international system has employed for over a century to secure its access to energy are becoming ... |
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| Irregular Warfare: New Challenges for Civil-Military Relations |
01-Oct-2008 |
13 pages |
| Authors:
Patrick M Cronin; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| Success in the highly political and ambiguous conflicts likely to dominate the global security environment in the coming decades will require a framework that balances the relationships between civilian and military leaders and makes the most effective use of their different strengths. These challenges are expected to require better integrated, whole-of-government approaches, the cooperation of host governments and allies, and strategic patience. Irregular warfare introduces new complications to what Eliot ... |
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| National Security Reform: The French Approach |
Oct-2008 |
22 pages |
| Authors:
Manuel L Rapnouil; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| Before last spring, France had only published two White Papers on Defense: - the first one, in 1972, was obviously marked by the Cold War context and laid out an all-deterrence approach; - the second one, in 1994, drew lessons from the end of the Cold War, as well as from Desert Storm and Balkans operations. It insisted on the importance of forces projection. It was followed in 1995 by ... |
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| Energy Security in South Asia: Can Interdependence Breed Stability? (Strategic Forum. Number 232, September 2008) |
01-Sep-2008 |
7 pages |
| Authors:
Joseph McMillan; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| South Asia is projected to play a major role in global energy markets over the next several decades, with India alone expected to become the world's third largest importer of petroleum by 2030. Satisfying the region's growing demands will require a heightened degree of energy interdependence among historically antagonistic states. Consequently, like it or not, regional leaders will face a tradeoff between traditional desires for energy self-sufficiency and the ambitious ... |
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| Defense Transformation a' la francaise and U.S. Interests. Strategic Forum, Number 233, September 2008 |
01-Sep-2008 |
13 pages |
| Authors:
Leo G Michel; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| France has embarked on a transformation of its national security strategy, structures, capabilities, and relationships with Allies and other international partners. At its core, this transformation reflects a growing French consensus that globalization especially the emergence of new, less predictable threats and vulnerabilities has profoundly altered defense requirements since the last comprehensive review in the mid-1990s. But President Nicolas Sarkozy, faced with a large budget deficit, is determined to meet ... |
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| Choosing War: The Decision to Invade Iraq and Its Aftermath |
APR 2008 |
61 pages |
| Authors:
Joseph Collins; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| Since 2006, the Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS) has contributed to the Project on National Security Reform's study of the interagency process. The Project's mission is "to assist national leadership in improving the U.S. Government's ability "to effectively provide for the nation's security in the 21st century". This study is aimed at developing an interagency reform agenda that would parallel the historic Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of ... |
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| U.S. Africa Command and the Principle of Active Security (Joint Force Quarterly, Issue 51, 4th Quarter 2008) |
Jan-2008 |
7 pages |
| Authors:
William E Ward; Thomas P Galvin; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| In 2000, the Zambezi River experienced significant flooding, and the nation of Mozambique was ill equipped to deal with the humanitarian disaster that followed. Homes were swept away, thousands of people were displaced, and 700 perished, leading to the deployment of a U.S. civilian disaster assistance response team and U.S. military forces to provide medical assistance and security to help Mozambique stabilize the situation. Although floods on the Zambezi have ... |
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| The European Union: Measuring Counterterrorism Cooperation. Strategic Forum, Number 229, November 2007 |
NOV 2007 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Jr Armitage David T.; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| The United States and the European Union (EU) are natural partners in the global war on terrorism, but cooperation, although absolutely necessary, is inherently difficult. Primary responsibility for most European counterterrorism policies remains with the separate governments of the 27 EU countries, which has presented coordination problems both within the EU and between the United States and the EU. Asymmetries in capacities and perceived vulnerabilities affect how different member states ... |
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| The Country Team: Restructuring America's First Line of Engagement |
SEP 2007 |
13 pages |
| Authors:
Robert B. Oakley; Jr Casey Michael; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| U.S. Embassies are confronting unprecedented challenges that do not fall neatly into diplomacy's traditional categories of political, economic, and consular affairs. A rising tide of transnational threats coupled with weak governance in fragile states poses serious risks that demand concerted action. U.S. Embassy staffs -- our Country Teams -- are ideally positioned as the first lines of engagement to face challenges to U.S. national interests. Yet effective interagency collaboration is ... |
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| Trans-American Security: What's Missing? Strategic Forum, Number 228, September 2007 |
SEP 2007 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Luigi R. Einaudi; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| The countries of the Western Hemisphere are more integrated than ever, with both each other and countries elsewhere, but critical aspects of their relationships remain hampered by outdated patterns and stereotypes. As the United States has focused on terrorism in the Middle East and Asia, its neighbors are developing more assertive roles on the world stage. While traditional national security concerns have diminished, new issues are coming to the fore. ... |
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| Preventing Balkan Conflict: The Role of Euroatlantic Institutions. Strategic Forum, Number 226, April 2007 |
APR 2007 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Jeffrey Simon; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| Despite 15 years of international peacekeeping and security assistance, the West Balkans are still beset with major security challenges that will severely test the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union (EU) in 2007. Bosnia-Herzegovina still requires the presence of NATO and EU police and peacekeepers and, along with newly independent Montenegro, needs help in building basic institutions. The same is true for Kosovo. As the United Nations ... |
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| Sino-Japanese Rivalry: Implications for U.S. Policy |
APR 2007 |
7 pages |
| Authors:
Michael McDevitt; James Przystup; Alan Romberg; Brad Roberts; Brad Glosserman; James Kelly; Ralph Cossa; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| During 2006, a consortium of policy research organizations conducted an in-depth examination of the troubled Sino-Japanese relationship and the implications of those tensions for U.S. interests. Chaired by James Kelly, former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, the project brought together a range of policy and regional experts to explore all aspects of the topic. Collaborating institutions included the Center for Naval Analyses, the Institute for ... |
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| A long time ago in a building not far away... |
Apr-2007 |
62 pages |
| Authors:
Chuck Lutes; Pete Hays; Coyote Smith; Mike Bell; Will Lahneman; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| Can Deterrence Be Tailored? Strategic Forum, Number 225, January 2007 |
JAN 2007 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
M. E. Bunn; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| Deterrence, the hallmark of Cold War era security, needs to be adapted to fit the more volatile security environment of the 21st century. The Bush administration has outlined a concept for tailored deterrence to address the distinctive challenges posed by advanced military competitors, regional powers armed with weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and nonstate terrorist networks while assuring allies and dissuading potential competitors. The goal of deterrence is to prevent ... |
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| Focus on China. Joint Force Quarterly, Issue 47, 4th Quarter 2007 |
2007 |
158 pages |
| Authors:
David H. Gurney; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| Partial contents: JFQ DIALOGUE -- Joint Doctrine Update; Logistics Visibility: Enabling Effective Decisionmaking, by C. V. Christianson; Joint Special Operations Warfighter Certificate, by John S. Prairie and Frank X. Reidy. FORUM -- Executive Summary of this issue; The Past as Prism: China and the Shock of Plural Sovereignty, by Christopher A. Ford; Dragon with a Heart of Darkness? Countering Chinese Influence in Africa, by Philippe D. Rogers; China's Air Force ... |
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| Intelligence and Technology. Joint Force Quarterly, Issue 46, 3rd Quarter 2007 |
2007 |
145 pages |
| Authors:
David H. Gurney; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| Partial contents: JFQ DIALOGUE -- Joint Doctrine Update; Strategic Communication and National Security, by James G. Stavridis; "Deconfusing" Lethal and Kinetic Terms, by Karl E. Wingenbach and Donald G. Lisenbee, Jr.; FORUM -- Executive Summary of this issue; Law Enforcement Technology, Intelligence, and the War on Terror, by M. E. Bowman; Technology, Intelligence, and Trust, by James R. Howcroft; Eyes on Target: Intelligence Support to an Effects-based Approach, by James ... |
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| In the Same Light as Slavery: Building a Global Antiterrorist Consensus |
DEC 2006 |
246 pages |
| Authors:
Joseph McMillan; Mark Tessler; Steven N. Simon; C. C. Fair; Caroline F. Ziemke; Kumar Ramakrishna; Scott Atran; Peter W. Singer; Hady Amr; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| ". . . to make clear that all acts of terrorism are illegitimate so that terrorism will be viewed in the same light as slavery, piracy, or genocide: behavior that no respectable government can condone or support and all must oppose." ...National Security Strategy of the United States, 2002. It did not take long after 9/11 for the American government and public to realize that a critical obstacle to combating ... |
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| China, Russia and the Balance of Power in Central Asia. Strategic Forum, Number 223, November 2006 |
NOV 2006 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Eugene B. Rumer; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| Russia and China increasingly seek to offset U.S. influence in Central Asia through enhanced cooperation conducted under the banner of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). While its impact is often exaggerated, the SCO does offer certain benefits to the states of the region, as well as to Moscow and Beijing, that the United States can ill afford to ignore. The United States and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies play ... |
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| Combating Opium in Afghanistan. Strategic Forum, Number 224, November 2006 |
NOV 2006 |
7 pages |
| Authors:
Ali A. Jalali; Robert B. Oakley; Zoe Hunter; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| Opium continues to pose one of the most serious threats to stability and good governance in Afghanistan. Proceeds and protection fees from trafficking are funneled to terrorist and insurgent groups, including the Taliban and al Qaeda. Insurgents have successfully leveraged poppy eradication efforts to increase popular resistance to both the government in Kabul and the presence of coalition forces. Despite major increases in counternarcotics programs and resources over the past ... |
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| Southeast Asian Security Challenges: America's Response? Strategic Forum, Number 222. October 2006 |
OCT 2006 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Marvin C. Ott; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| Transnational and geopolitical challenges are shaping the security environment in Southeast Asia. Rapid economic change, actual and potential disease epidemics, and a growing sense of shared interest and grievance among the region's Islamic populations are among the region's main transnational concerns. In its most extreme form, Islamist sentiment has manifested itself in jihadist movements, including some with connections to al Qaeda. Geopolitically, China's rise poses a multifaceted strategic challenge to ... |
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| China's Global Activism: Strategy, Drivers, and Tools |
OCT 2006 |
68 pages |
| Authors:
Phillip C. Saunders; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| Chinese leaders are pursuing a long-term grand strategy based on maintaining a peaceful international environment that allows China to build the economic and technological foundations necessary to become a rich and powerful country. China's increased global activism is intended to secure inputs for the economy; protect against a possible U.S. containment strategy; expand Chinese political influence; and pursue Chinese commercial interests. The timing and pattern of China's increased activism in ... |
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| Reforming Pentagon Strategic Decisionmaking. Strategic Forum. Number 221, July 2006 |
JUL 2006 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Christopher J. Lamb; Irving Lachow; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| Decisionmaking in the Pentagon is intrinsically difficult, but the growing consensus is that reform is both necessary and possible. The chorus of voices calling for reform reached a crescendo with the 2006 "Quadrennial Defense Review Report," which gives unprecedented priority to this objective. Yet the Pentagon's large and powerful bureaucracy and complex operating environment pose daunting obstacles for even the most knowledgeable, experienced, and determined leaders. Decision support processes designed ... |
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| Visions of Order: Japan and China in U.S. Strategy (Strategic Forum, Number 220, June 2006) |
JUN 2006 |
7 pages |
| Authors:
James J. Przystup; Phillip C. Saunders; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| The United States seeks to engage Japan and China in building a peaceful international order at the regional and global levels. The Bush administration has articulated tow conceptual approaches to this challenge, one centered on Japan and the other on China. |
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| Toward a Euro-Atlantic Strategy for the Black Sea Region |
APR 2006 |
40 pages |
| Authors:
Eugene B. Rumer; Jeffrey Simon; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| The Black Sea region is increasingly important to Europe and the United States as a major east-west energy supply bridge and as a barrier against many transnational threats. The security environment in the region is a product of diverse interests of littoral states and their neighbors. Some of these interests coincide with those of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members, while others reflect a unique regional security agenda. As the ... |
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| Restructuring Special Operations Forces for Emerging Threats (Strategic Forum, Number 219) |
JAN 2006 |
7 pages |
| Authors:
David Tucker; Christopher J. Lamb; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| Special Operations Forces (SOF) already make major contributions to national defense. However, the Department of Defense should adjust SOF operations, organization, and national-level command and control to deal more effectively with terrorism and related forms of political violence. Almost 20 years after the Special Operations Command was created, it is clear that to make strategic contributions to defeating current and emerging threats, SOF direct and indirect action capabilities should be ... |
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| NATO Stability Teams: The Next Stage of Capability Development |
2006 |
5 pages |
| Authors:
Anne M. Moisan; Jennifer D. Moroney; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| Despite all it has accomplished, NATO is now approaching Act II of a 21st-century drama, where transformation faces critical new challenges. From the strain of supporting out-of-area deployments in the Balkans and Afghanistan, and with the growth of stabilization and reconstruction missions, counterterrorism operations, and prospective support to civil authorities in homeland security, the demand for combat support and combat service support type capabilities highlights a severe capabilities gap. The ... |
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| Africa's Petroleum Industry |
15 NOV 2005 |
8 pages |
| Authors:
David L. Goldwyn; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly West and Central Africa, has become a strategic supplier to the global and U.S. oil and gas market. Africa's importance to U.S. energy security is rising due to Africa's expanding role as an incremental supplier of oil in a tight global oil market, its relative openness to foreign investment, increasing levels of U.S. investment in crude oil and LNG production, the quality of Africa's crude oil, and ... |
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| Africa's Petroleum Industry |
15 NOV 2005 |
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| Authors:
David L. Goldwyn; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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 | This presentation on Africa's petroleum industry makes the following key points: (1) West Africa is a strategic supplier to the U.S./global market, (2) Africa's role in the global market is expected to increase in the medium term, (3) China and India represent competitors with additional bargaining tools -- downstream investment and abundant capital, (4) threats to stability of supply are more internal than external, and (5) increasing political stability in ... |
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| An African Perspective on the Global Fight Against Terrorism |
15 NOV 2005 |
12 pages |
| Authors:
H. E. Kherbi; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| In this presentation on the global fight against terrorism, the author emphasizes that the response to the terrorist threat is everyone's business and that it should be expressed by a mobilization of international public opinion and cooperation by states in the framework of regional and multilateral organizations. One condition for successful cooperation between countries resides in a transparent exchange of information on terrorist groups and their networks of logistical support ... |
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| Domestic or International Terrorism? A Dysfunctional Dialogue |
15 NOV 2005 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
David H. Shinn; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| In this presentation, the author claims that most American dialogue about terrorism with Africans is dysfunctional. Americans focus on acts of international terrorism while Africans are more concerned about cases of domestic terrorism that rarely reach the pages of major American newspapers. The problem begins with lack of an agreed-upon definition of terrorism. The African Union's Convention on the Prevention and Combating of Terrorism contains a long, complex, and confusing ... |
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| Africa's Surrogate Wars: The Most Significant Challenge to African Stability and U.S. Security Interests in Africa |
15 NOV 2005 |
4 pages |
| Authors:
Herman J. Cohen; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| This presentation by Herman J. Cohen, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, focuses on surrogate wars in Africa. Surrogate wars are insurgencies against a legitimate government perpetrated by armies or groups from outside its borders. Examples of surrogate wars include Liberia, Rwanda, Mozambique, Ivory Coast, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The author discusses these surrogate wars and questions why the African Union and the international aid organizations, such ... |
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| Strategic Forum. Number 218, November 2005. Constabulary Forces and Postconflict Transition: The Euro-Atlantic Dimension |
NOV 2005 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Jr. Armitage David T.; Anne M. Moisan; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| There is a growing need for an international paramilitary police force that can fill the security gap between the end of military combat, peace support, relief operations, and the start of restoration of civil authority. Several governments of the European Union (i.e., France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and The Netherlands), drawing on longstanding paramilitary national police forces, are creating a multinational European Gendarmerie Force (EGF), which could fill some of the ... |
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