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Africa and the Arab Spring: A New Era of Democratic Expectations
2011 saw dramatic changes in Africa's governance landscape. Unprecedented popular demonstrations in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya led to the overturning of a century of autocratic rule in North Africa. These protests, demanding greater political freedom, economic opportunity, and an end to systemic corruption, have...- $12.95
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American Neutraility in the 20th Century: The Impossible Dream: Institute for National Strategic Studies McNair Paper 33
This work began for the author with a paper written in the spring of 1982 while as a student at the College of Command and Staff at the Naval War College. The author's professional and personal interest in the Law of War and Neutrality...- $16.99
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An ICT Primer: Information and Communication Technologies for Civil-Military Coordination in Disaster Relief and Stabilization and Reconstruction
The initial years of the 21st century have witnessed numerous large-scale crises, from the Indian Ocean tsunami and the Kashmir earthquake to longer-term, multi-faceted emergencies, such as those in Sudan. The United States has been involved as part of multinational coalitions in S&R missions...- $17.99
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China's Strategic Support Force: A Force for a New Era: October 2018
The People's Liberation Army (PLA) reforms have brought dramatic changes to its structure, model of warfighting, and organizational culture, including the creation of a Strategic Support Force (SSF) that centralizes most PLA space, cyber, electronic, and psychological warfare capabilities. These reforms come at a...- $26.10
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Counterinsurgency: A Forgotten U.S. Strategy
The United States has a history of conducting large, conventional, firepower centric wars to achieve victory. This tactic hindered the U.S. approach to counterinsurgency (COIN) since Vietnam. The U.S. consistently failed to recognize it was fighting an insurgency and instead tried to fight the...- $14.95
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Cross-currents in French Defense and U.S. Interests: Institute for National Strategic Studies, Strategic Perspectives, No. 10
France is the only European ally-except for the United Kingdom (UK)-that regards its military capabilities, operational performance, and defense industry as vital levers to exert global influence. While the French believe strongly in their need to preserve "strategic independence," they see new challenges in...- $13.99
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Cyber as a "Team Sport": Operationalizing A Whole-of-Government Approach to Cyberspace Operations
Cyberspace and its associated operations present both opportunities and challenges for military and United States Government decision-makers and planners. The Pentagon has formally recognized cyberspace as a domain of warfare. Cyberspace is man-made, dynamic, and intrinsically linked to not only Department of Defense (DoD)...- $14.95
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Defining "Weapons of Mass Destruction"
By the late 1990s, the term WMD was an integral part of American national security discourse, as evident by its growing usage. A full text search of the New York Times identified the number of stories every year from 1945 to 2010 using the...- $17.95
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E Pluribus Unum "Homeland Security Versus Homeland Defense" Who Does What and to Whom?
This study: E Pluribus Unum examines the problem of providing comprehensive Homeland Security. The research follows the ambiguity of Homeland Security (HS) terminology that invariably leads to mission overlap and jurisdictional disputes, as well as the confusion resulting from the lack of a current...- $14.95
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Forging an American Grand Strategy: Securing a Path Through a Complex Future
On November 8-9, 2011, the National Defense University (NDU), Washington, DC, held a conference entitled "Forging an American Grand Strategy: Securing a Path Through a Complex Future," which I had the privilege of chairing. For more than 2 decades, I have been studying the...- $6.25
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Fragility and State-Society Relations in South Sudan
It has long been recognized that the new state of South Sudan would face daunting challenges. The world's newest nation is also one of its poorest-the result of negligible investment in its people and infrastructure over many decades by the erstwhile governing authority in...- $14.95
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Fragility and State-Society Relations in South Sudan
It has long been recognized that the new state of South Sudan would face daunting challenges. The world's newest nation is also one of its poorest-the result of negligible investment in its people and infrastructure over many decades by the erstwhile governing authority in...- $12.95
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French Security Policy in Transition: Dynamics of Continuity and Change: Institute for National Strategic Studies McNair Paper 38
Since 1989, French Defense and security policy has been undercut by changes in the external environment and domestic pressures to deal with the challenge of economic modernization. The Soviet revolution of 1989, the reunification of Germany, the collapse of the soviet Union, and the...- $14.99
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Hometown Hospitals: The Weakest Link? Bioterrorism Readiness in America's Rural Hospitals
Over the past decade, acts of international and domestic terrorism have demonstrated to government officials and policy makers the urgency of preparing systems to support the detection of atypical health events and the provision of preventive and interventional medical services in mass-care events. The...- $13.99
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Islamic Radicalization and the Global Islamist Movement: Protecting U.S. National Interests by Understanding and Countering Islamist Grand Strategy wi
This book examines the national security policies and strategies of the United States (U.S.) as they address terrorism and the root causes of terrorism in an information age. It focuses on the root causes of terrorism and the enduring nature of the Global Islamist...- $14.95
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NATO Partnerships and the Arab Spring: Achievements and Perspectives for the 2012 Chicago Summit: Transatlantic Perspectives, No. 1
In November 2010, heads of state and government at the Lisbon Summit called for a "streamlining" of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) partnerships. In early 2011, the Alliance developed a more flexible and efficient partnership policy. It did so in accordance with the Lisbon...- $12.99
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Only in the Mind of the Enemy: Can Deterrence Effectiveness be Measured?
Measuring the effectiveness of deterrence activities and messages is challenging since the adversary will not admit to being deterred. This study proposes that planners can use intelligence indicators to provide feedback for measuring deterrence effectiveness. Reviewing the evolution of U.S. deterrence strategy, as well...- $12.95
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Redefining Success: Applying Lessons in Nuclear Diplomacy from North Korea to Iran: Institute for National Strategic Studies, Strategic Pe
The United States has no good options for resolving the North Korean and Iranian nuclear challenges. Incentives, pressures, and threats have not succeeded. A military strike would temporarily set back these programs, but at unacceptable human and diplomatic costs, and with a high risk...- $14.99
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Russia and the Iranian Nuclear Program: Replay or Breakthrough?: Institute for National Strategic Studies, Strategic Perspectives, No. 9
Despite protests across Russia sparked by last December's fraud-filled Duma (parliament) elections, Vladimir Putin is preparing to return to the presidency this May. Will Putin replay his 2004-2008 approach to Iran, during which Russia negotiated the S-300 air defense system contract with Tehran? Or...- $15.99
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Russia's Revival: Ambitions, Limitations, and Opportunities for the United States: Institute for National Strategic Studies, Strategic P
Independent Russia is approaching the start of its third decade of post-Soviet existence. After the economic chaos of the Boris Yeltsin decade and the recovery and stabilization of the Vladimir Putin decade, Russia's leaders have high ambitions for a return to great power status...- $12.99
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The Chinese Air Force - Evolving Concepts, Roles, and Capabilities: August 2012
An extraordinary list of contributors addresses the Chinese Air Force in a truly comprehensive manner, providing insight to a level that hasn't been seen before in any single volume on the PLA or its components. The chapters offer a complete picture of where the...- $33.76
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The Iron Triangle Manifested: U.S. Air Force Tanker Lease 2001-2005 Case Study
The proposed lease of the KC-767 tanker aircraft was one of the most infamous procurement scandals of the post-Cold War era. Interactions within the military-industrial-congressional complex led to legislation permitting the Air Force to lease tankers from Boeing using an operating lease rather than...- $14.99
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The Ongoing Insurgency in Southern Thailand: Trends in Violence, Counterinsurgency Operations, and the Impact of National Politics: Institute for Nati
Since January 2004, a Malay-Muslim-based insurgency has engulfed the three southernmost provinces in Thailand. More than 4,500 people have been killed and over 9,000 wounded, making it the most lethal conflict in Southeast Asia. Now in its 8th year, the insurgency has settled into...- $13.99
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The Revision of FM3-24 is Overdue: Rethinking Classical Counterinsurgency to Defeat Contemporary Insurgents
Current United States counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine espoused in Army Field Manual (FM) 3-24 Counterinsurgency is inadequate for the realities of the complex security environment that exist in the world today. This paper starts with a literary review of the current counterinsurgency doctrine proposed in...- $14.95
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The United States, Russia, Europe, and Security: How to Address the "Unfinished Business" of the Post-Cold War Era: Transatlantic Perspectives, No. 2
In 2012, the U.S. Department of Defense published Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense. In this strategy document, the Defense Department outlines the new focus of U.S. efforts on threats emanating primarily from South Asia and the Middle East, spelling out...- $12.99
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To Stay Or Not To Stay: Non-combatant Evacuation Operations And Their Impact On Host Nation/Regional Stability
The United States Ambassadors and Geographic Combatant Commanders are responsible for protection of United States citizens in their respective areas of responsibility. Accordingly, planning and practicing of procedures for Non-combatant Evacuation Operations (NEOs) are prudent and necessary especially as stability, in aHost Nation or...- $12.95
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U.S. National Arctic Strategy: Preparing Defensive Lines of Effort for the Arctic
The United States is one of eight Arctic nations. Approximately 1,000 miles of the Alaskan coastline border, and 200,000 square nautical miles of the U.S. exclusive economic zone are encompassed in, the Arctic Ocean. As economic opportunities in the Arctic steadily increase, the United...- $19.95
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Who You Gonna Call? Responding to a Medical Emergency with the Strategic National Stockpile
Prior to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and the subsequent anthrax attacks, the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS), known as the National Pharmaceutical Stockpile until March 2003, was an important component of the national medical response to a crisis, but one that had...- $13.99
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