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Winter 2005/2006
Michael J. Mcnerney |
Stabilization and Reconstruction in Afghanistan: Are PRTs a Model or a Muddle? Developed during the summer of 2002, the concept of Provincial Reconstruction Teams have the potential to become a model for future stabilization and reconstruction operations.   |
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Autumn 2005
Andrew S. Natsios |
The Nine Principles of Reconstruction and Development In a time of increasing collaboration between the two organizations, it is important that the military gain a better understanding of how the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and development agencies generally approach their work, and how the two communities can beneficially build on this cooperation. |
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Winter 2005/2006
Mitchell J. Thompson |
Breaking the Proconsulate: A New Design for National Power There have been few truly transformational changes to the institutions of national security, only slight modifications to the existing ones. |
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Autumn 2007
Gregory L. Cantwell |
Nation-Building: A Joint Enterprise When America's Army is at war, is the nation also at war? |
National Defense
December 2009
Stew Magnuson |
Integrating Civilian Agencies Into Military Operations Remains Difficult The United States' "whole government" approach to rebuilding war-torn nations is nevertheless moving forward. |
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Winter 2005/2006
Christopher M. Schnaubelt |
After the Fight: Interagency Operations The situation in Iraq may not be nearly as dire as some pundits and much of the media would have the American public believe, but there is certainly a long way to go. |
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Spring 2006
Ali A. Jalali |
The Future of Afghanistan Afghanistan is again at a crossroads. One road leads to peace and prosperity; the other leads to the loss of all that has been achieved. Everything depends on the level of international commitment to help Afghanistan emerge from the dark shadows of its recent past. |
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Spring 2005
Metz & Millen |
Intervention, Stabilization, and Transformation Operations: The Role of Landpower in the New Strategic Environment A historic shift has taken place in the strategic environment as globalization and interconnectedness propel the concept of security in new, unforeseen directions |
National Defense
May 2004
Harold Kennedy |
The New face of Peacekeeping U.S. leaders have began to rediscover the value of peacekeeping operations. |
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Autumn 2005
Sean M. Maloney |
Afghanistan Four Years On: An Assessment The situation in Afghanistan has progressed to the point where guarded optimism is justified. Unfortunately, the perception of the situation on the ground has become distorted through the prism of American partisan politics. |
National Defense
August 2009
Berenson & Jovovic |
How Companies Can Capitalize On U.S. 'Smart Power' Approach Companies seeking to capture new business under new administration defense policies need to be able to work with multiple divisions of the government. |
Parameters
Autumn 2008
William Mcdonough |
Time for a New Strategy The Surge Strategy proposed by George W. Bush in 2007 has accomplished the majority of its goals and now is the time to significantly reduce the US presence in Iraq. |
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Spring 2004
Sean M. Maloney |
Afghanistan: From Here to Eternity? American policy in Afghanistan is at a crossroads, or so it appears. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld suggested in May 2003 that the war on terror in Afghanistan was in "cleanup" or "mop up" phase. |
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Autumn 2006
Michael R. Melillo |
Outfitting a Big-War Military with Small-War Capabilities Unfortunately, it took the tragedy of 9/11 and the challenges posed by an adaptive enemy for the U.S. to realize it was not prepared to fight war on terms other than its own choosing. |
National Defense
January 2008
Lawrence P. Farrell |
Stability, Reconstruction Skills Key to Long Lasting Security As U.S. forces carry out the difficult job of stabilizing and rebuilding Iraq, civilian and military leaders are beginning to realize that this nation-building expertise will be critical in the future. |
National Defense
August 2005
Harold Kennedy |
State Department Gets Major Role In Peacekeeping The White House has assigned the role of coordinating civilian and coalition efforts, or "stability operations," after a war to the State Department, which has created an office with an "ambassadorial-level coordinator." |
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Winter 2006/2007
Tariq Gilani |
US-Pakistan Relations: The Way Forward An improved US-Pakistani relationship will solidify Pakistan as a reliable regional partner and strengthen the overall conduct of the global war on terrorism, further stabilizing a region that at one time was fraught with danger. |
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Autumn 2008
Mark Cancian |
Contractors: The New Element of Military Force Structure The purpose of this article is to examine what battlefield contractors do, consider how we got to the situation we are in today, and provide force planners with some useful insight regarding the future. |
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Summer 2006
Dan Henk |
The Environment, the US Military, and Southern Africa Regardless of who ultimately takes responsibility for creating the focus, the US military would get more from its environmental investments in southern Africa if they were part of a more coherent strategy for dealing with regional environmental opportunities and threats. |
National Defense
February 2007
Grace Jean |
Lack of Military-Civilian Coordination Hinders War-Zone Rebuilding Efforts Civilian groups that play critical roles in the rebuilding of Iraq have no clear guidance for how to coordinate their efforts with the military. |
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Autumn 2004
Michael O'Hanlon |
The Need to Increase the Size of the Deployable Army The possibility exists that large numbers of active-duty troops and reservists may soon leave the service rather than subjecting themselves to a life continually on the road. The seriousness of the worry cannot be easily established. |
National Defense
April 2005
Roxana Tiron |
Irregular Warfare Counter-insurgency in Iraq provides a template for fighting terrorism. |
National Defense
May 2006
Perry & Flournoy |
The U.S. Military: Under Strain And at Risk In the current debate over the nation's defense strategy and spending priorities, many have forgotten that the ground forces are under enormous strain. This strain, if not soon relieved, will have highly corrosive effects on the force. |
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Autumn 2008
Steven L. Schooner |
Why Contractor Fatalities Matter Apprising the American public that the true human cost associated with military operations includes contractors and exceeds 6,000 is critical to making informed decisions for the future. |
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Autumn 2007
Christopher M. Schnaubelt |
Whither the RMA? The present Department of Defense (DOD) focus on technological solutions to increase capabilities may be misguided by a vision of a high-tech Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA). |
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Summer 2008
Robert Gates |
Reflections on Leadership Partners in Command, a book by Mark Perry, is an account of the unique relationship between General Dwight D. Eisenhower and General George Marshall, and how they played a significant role in the American victory in World War II. |
National Defense
June 2006
Harold Kennedy |
Special Operators Gain Civilian Assistance As it plans for an extended struggle against terrorism, the U.S. Special Operations Command is realizing that it is going to need a lot of outside help, and it is reaching out to civilian agencies, allied nations and private contractors. |
Reason
July 2006
Logan & Preble |
Are Failed States a Threat to America? The Bush administration's nation-building efforts are a big mistake. |
National Defense
June 2010
Stew Magnuson |
As They Train For War, Civilians Experience Two Cultures: Afghanistan and U.S. Military A group of civilians preparing to deploy to Afghanistan to carry out President Obama's vision to involve the entire federal government in the war gathered in a circle for an after action review at the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2011
Glenn Zorpette |
Re-engineering Afghanistan The coalition has spent hundreds of millions trying to give Afghanistan electricity. Unfortunately, it made many of the mistakes it made in Iraq |
National Defense
February 2008
Stew Magnuson |
To Counter Terrorism, Philippine Army Takes Lessons From U.S. Forces For the past six years, a little known special operations campaign in the Philippines' restive southern provinces has applied theoretical counterinsurgency models in a real-world scenario. |
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Spring 2006 |
Book Reviews Soldiering: Observations from Korea, Vietnam, and Safe Places. By Henry G. Gole... New Glory: Expanding America's Global Supremacy. By Ralph Peters... Sands of Empire: Missionary Zeal, American Foreign Policy, and the Hazards of Global Ambition. By Robert W. Merry... etc. |
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Spring 2005
Kenneth Payne |
The Media as an Instrument of War The media, in the modern era, are indisputably an instrument of war. This is because winning modern wars is as much dependent on carrying domestic and international public opinion as it is on defeating the enemy on the battlefield. |
National Defense
August 2010
Sandra I. Erwin |
Pentagon Contractors Souring on 'Soft Power' Pentagon contractors are turning bearish on the so-called "soft power" market for non-defense work such as nation-building and post-conflict reconstruction. |
National Defense
September 2015
Sandra I. Erwin |
U.S. Central Command Leads Push to Connect Allies in Common Network U.S. military leaders in regional commands have coped with limited interoperability with allies by setting up one-off communications systems. |
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Summer 2005
R. D. Hooker |
Beyond Vom Kriege: The Character and Conduct of Modern War While the methods used to wage war are constantly evolving, the nature and character of war remain deeply and unchangeably rooted in the nature of man. |
National Defense
December 2009
Stew Magnuson |
Increasingly Complex Operations Force Rapid Changes in Army Training The increasingly complex battlefield is prompting the service to rethink the way it trains for war. |
National Defense
December 2009
Stew Magnuson |
New Civilian Force To Conduct Stability Operations The force will draw personnel from the Departments of State, Justice, Agriculture, Homeland Security, Treasury, Commerce, Health and Human Services, and the U.S. Agency for International Development. |
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Winter 2005/2006 |
Book Reviews The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War by Andrew J. Bacevich... 1776 by David McCullough... West Point: Two Centuries and Beyond edited by Lance Betros... What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building by Noah Feldman... etc. |
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Summer 2006 |
Book Reviews Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis. By Jimmy Carter... State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century. By Francis Fukuyama... Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-1945. By Max Hastings... etc. |
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Summer 2007 |
Book Reviews Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 by Mark Moyar offers fresh insights on the war... Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945 by Catherine Merridale is social history at it's best... etc. |
National Defense
April 2009
Sandra I. Erwin |
U.S. Wants More Help From Allies? Not Really The hope is that President Obama's extraordinary popularity in Europe will translate into "enhanced contributions to the efforts in Afghanistan." |
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Summer 2005
Pierre Lessard |
Campaign Design for Winning the War . . . and the Peace The current Western interpretation of campaign design must reunite with its strategic roots of ends and means in its quest to seek ways of winning both the war and the peace in the post-9/11 era. |
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Winter 2005/2006
Jeffrey Record |
Why the Strong Lose Why has the United States fared consistently well against such powerful enemies as Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan and the Soviet Union, but its record against lesser foes is decidedly mixed? |
Geotimes
October 2004
John F. Shroder Jr. |
Afghanistan Redux: Better Late Than Never Efforts by USGS to study the resources of Afghanistan that are necessary to help boost its economy have been far from straightforward since September 11, but at last are now under way. |
National Defense
November 2010
Nathaniel H. Sledge Jr. |
Defense Spending: Today's 'Broken' Budgeting Process Must Change The defense budget process is a balancing act, where selected segments of the government and industry determine the allocation of resources to a vast array of requirements. The process, however, has not worked. |
National Defense
February 2010
Grace V. Jean |
'Culture Maps' Becoming Essential Tools of War The U.S. military has access to the world's best topographic maps. It is now trying to build "culture maps" that include details such as a region's tribal affiliations, ethnicity, religion and language. |
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Winter 2003/2004
Richard D. Hooker, Jr. |
Soldiers of the State: Reconsidering American Civil-Military Relations Far from overstepping its bounds, America's military operates comfortably within constitutional notions of separated powers, participating appropriately in defense and national security policymaking with due deference to the principle of civilian control. |
National Defense
December 2009
Austin Wright |
Army Leaders Prepare for War, Peace and Everything In Between The military is transitioning from a group of one-track warriors to a force of multitaskers who can advise, assist and attack. |
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Spring 2005 |
Book Reviews Abandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War....The Moral Warrior: Ethics and Service in the U.S.... etc. |
