| Saving the World for Democracy - An Historical Analysis of America's Grand Strategy in the 21st Century |
07 SEP 2005 |
79 pages |
| Authors:
J. A. Bassani Jr; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV NORFOLK VA JOINTFORCES STAFF COLL
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 | This study examines America's new grand strategy that has emerged in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001. Grand strategy is an overarching concept that guides how nations employ all of the instruments of national power to shape world events and achieve specific national security objectives. Grand strategy provides the linkage between national goals and actions by establishing a deliberately ambiguous vision of the world as we ... |
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| The Crisis in Strategic Communication: A Combatant Command Solution |
31 AUG 2005 |
70 pages |
| Authors:
Mark E. Stratton II; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV NORFOLK VA JOINTFORCES STAFF COLL
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| When the United States became the world's sole super power, the events of September 11, 2001, were not foreseeable, and the hatred that many people currently have for America was not easily predictable. Today Islamic terrorists want to destroy the U.S. way of life and eliminate Western influence in the world. The threat we face today is as serious as the one we faced more than fifty years ago at ... |
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| Effects-Based Operations: Enhancing Operational Art and Design in the 21st Century |
31 AUG 2005 |
82 pages |
| Authors:
Kevin D. Admiral; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV NORFOLK VA JOINTFORCES STAFF COLL
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| The attacks of September 11, 2001 and the resulting combat operations in Afghanistan compelled the Armed Forces to thoroughly review and revise current warfighting concepts to determine if they are adaptable to changing technologies, threats and missions. The Services are moving forward with transformation roadmaps to build a capabilities-based force, but what has not moved as quickly is a clear understanding of how to execute effects-based operations in a complex ... |
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| Why Not Annihilation? |
31 AUG 2005 |
91 pages |
| Authors:
Edward A. Kovaleski; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV NORFOLK VA JOINTFORCES STAFF COLL
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| The Global War on Terrorism cannot be won without a coherent commitment from national, defense, and military leadership to eradicate extremist organizations. The current National Security Strategy, referred to by one expert as only the third grand strategy in the history of the United States, cannot succeed on its own. An unambiguous military strategy of annihilation not only supports the current National Security Strategy bu elements of national power diplomatic, ... |
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| The Principles of War: Valid Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow |
25 MAY 2005 |
84 pages |
| Authors:
Lonnie R. Harrelson; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV NORFOLK VA JOINTFORCES STAFF COLL
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| The principles of war have survived for many years and have assisted many military planners and commanders. They do not exist as a cookbook solution to generate success, but they do exist as a guide to energize the thought process of planners and commanders. When the concepts are employed in an artful, skillful, and knowledgeable manner, one may possibly have a greater potential for success. These principles are not axiomatically ... |
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| Ground-Based Midcourse Defense: Continue Testing, but Operational Fielding Must Take a Backseat to Theater Missile Defense and Homeland Security |
24 MAY 2005 |
75 pages |
| Authors:
Robert J. Cepek; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV NORFOLK VA JOINTFORCES STAFF COLL
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| The Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system has been rushed into operation in Alaska but does not yet provide any defense against the thousands of nuclear warheads of Russia's 700 inter-continental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). GMD will not protect America from the twenty or so nuclear missiles owned by China. There are only two other countries (Britain and France) that have ICBMs capable of reaching the United States. Thus, GMD is being ... |
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| FOLLOW ME! Assisting United States Government Organizations Supporting Military Operations |
15 MAY 2005 |
74 pages |
| Authors:
Robert E. Choppa; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV NORFOLK VA JOINTFORCES STAFF COLL
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| This study provides recommendations that are aimed at improving the integration of U.S. military and other U.S. governmental organizations during operations. This study solicited U.S. uniformed military and U.S. other governmental agency representatives responses to multiple questions. The questions focused on identifying skills, knowledge levels, impressions, and perceptions from military and interagency participants. The responses were compared to common U.S. military competencies and characteristics. Finally, recommendations were derived from the ... |
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| Building the Operational and Strategic Warfighter |
13 MAY 2005 |
67 pages |
| Authors:
Harry C. Glenn III; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV NORFOLK VA JOINTFORCES STAFF COLL
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| The Department of Defense is currently executing an expansive transformation throughout the joint community. One of the critical aspects of this transformation is the education of officers and preparation of officers to assume strategic and operational leadership and command positions throughout the Combatant Commands. Officer development is the responsibility of each Service. Unfortunately, this does not prepare the officer to assume the role of a strategic or operational commander in ... |
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| Personnel Recovery and the DOTMLPF Changes Needed for the Twenty-First Century |
13 MAY 2005 |
82 pages |
| Authors:
Thomas R. Dorl; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV NORFOLK VA JOINTFORCES STAFF COLL
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| Perhaps the noblest mission in the nation is the one where tremendous risk is taken to rescue personnel who are isolated from friendly control. Personnel recovery, conducted by every service, involves locating and recovering isolated personnel and returning them to safety. This mission continues to grow in scope and coverage as the global war on terrorism widens the battlespace and more U.S. Government personnel and contractors are placed in harm's ... |
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| Breaking the Paradigm: The Challenge of Close Air Support in the Future Joint Operating Environment |
13 MAY 2005 |
72 pages |
| Authors:
Matthew S. Deyo; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV NORFOLK VA JOINTFORCES STAFF COLL
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| In this time of transformation, the U.S. military faces many uncertainties. Its current enemies are elusive and a near peer competitor is non-existent. One certainty for the military however, is it will continue to deploy expeditionary forces to regions around the globe to support U.S. national interests. These continued deployments have forced the Army to become a lighter and more deployable expeditionary force. The future Army brigade unit of action ... |
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| Army Aviation: A Critical Member of the 21st Century Joint Team |
13 MAY 2005 |
68 pages |
| Authors:
William A. Ryan; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV NORFOLK VA JOINTFORCES STAFF COLL
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| Starting with the collapse of the Soviet empire in 1989, world events have clearly shifted the threat paradigm for the United States Armed Forces from the Cold War model to the Global War on Terrorism. However, the United States Army, and specifically, Army Aviation, was slow to realize this shift and adjust its force structure, training, and doctrine to reflect a new set of conditions. The Persian Gulf War of ... |
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| ENGAGE! A Deliberate Planning Model for the Future Development of Space Power in the Department of Defense |
13 MAY 2005 |
91 pages |
| Authors:
Chevalier P. Cleaves; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV NORFOLK VA JOINTFORCES STAFF COLL
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| In preparation for this paper the author researched extensively through books, space policy statements, research projects, as well as speeches and position papers sponsored by the commander of Air Force Space Command. This Air Force Major Command holds the largest portion of the military space mission areas and is the most heavily funded of the services. Much like other national policies and positions, space policies have often come as others ... |
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| Unraveling Al Qaeda's Strategy |
13 MAY 2005 |
67 pages |
| Authors:
Donald L. Shaffer; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV NORFOLK VA JOINTFORCES STAFF COLL
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| Gauging the effectiveness of the U.S. strategy to counter international terrorism requires first an understanding of the objectives, ways and means, and implementation strategy of the adversary. In this case, the adversary is Al Qaeda and its network of affiliated regional terrorist organizations. Despite claims of ignorance by policy makers and pundits as to Al Qaeda's aims immediately following the attacks of September 11th, the evidence suggests the terrorists' intent ... |
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| Successfully Developing Joint Leaders |
13 MAY 2005 |
109 pages |
| Authors:
Matthew T. Smith; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV NORFOLK VA JOINTFORCES STAFF COLL
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| In the future, the US military cannot afford to be outmaneuvered by the enemy anywhere within the battlespace; freedom depends on our ability to retain the initiative and to subdue or annihilate the enemy at points of our choosing. Toward that end, we must continue to exploit fully joint warfighting theory and doctrine. We do this well enough in most areas, with the glaring exception of officer professional development. This ... |
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| Don't Forget About Dedicated Sea Mine Countermeasures |
13 MAY 2005 |
80 pages |
| Authors:
Malcolm H. Potts; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV NORFOLK VA JOINTFORCES STAFF COLL
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| America's reliance on the seas cannot be overstated. The U.S. depends upon the ocean as both the highway for force deployment and as the medium for global economic security. Free access to the waterways of the world determine the United States' ability to survive and prosper. The threat and the employment of sea mines are capable of interrupting the U.S. quest for national and economic security. Struggling through the Korean ... |
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| The Standing Joint Force Headquarters Plan-Does It Go Far Enough |
13 MAY 2005 |
72 pages |
| Authors:
William T. Dolan; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV NORFOLK VA JOINTFORCES STAFF COLL
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| Since the Goldwater-Nichols Act (GNA) in 1986, the military continues to evolve to meet the requirements and intent of the law, that of becoming an innately joint force. One such initiative, to be implemented by 2007, is the Standing Joint Force Headquarters (SJFHQ). The intent behind this initiative is to alleviate some of the problems, such as interoperability, flexibility, timeliness and others discussed in detail in Chapter 2, that have ... |
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| A Critical Vulnerability, A Valid Threat. U.S. Ports and Terrorist Mining |
13 APR 2005 |
68 pages |
| Authors:
Michael E. Sparks; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV NORFOLK VA JOINTFORCES STAFF COLL
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| Sea mines have been a nuisance in the maritime domain since their debut during the Revolutionary War to their most recent use in Operation Iraqi Freedom. An indiscriminate weapon, mines inflict fear and uncertainty in maritime powers and can successfully deny an adversary access to the high seas. It is the effects produced from the employment of mines which make them attractive to the terrorist. Fear, uncertainty, insecurity and the ... |
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