Offers an analysis of the future of the world's ground forces: Where are future large-scale conflicts or other catastrophes most plausible? Which of these could be important enough to necessitate the option of a US military response? And which of these could in turn require significant numbers of American ground forces in their resolution?
Marvin Kalb, former CBS Moscow bureau chief, traces how the Crimea has become a global tinder box. Kalb argues that the post-cold war world today hangs on the resolution of the Ukraine crisis. So long as it is treated as a problem to be resolved by Russia, on the one side, and the United States and Europe, on the other, it will remain a danger ......
Offers an analysis of the future of the world's ground forces: Where are future large-scale conflicts or other catastrophes most plausible? Which of these could be important enough to necessitate the option of a US military response? And which of these could in turn require significant numbers of American ground forces in their resolution?
"Fighters Over The Falklands" looks at how the Falkland Islands are defended by RAF air defence fighter aircraft. Covering the period immediately after the Falklands war when the Phantom became the front line of the islands' defence, through to the departure of the Tornado F3s, it captures military life and concludes with why the Typhoon will be ......
Not since Pearl Harbor has an American president gone to Congress to request a declaration of war. Nevertheless, since then, one president after another, from Truman to Obama, has ordered American troops into wars all over the world. This book deals with this topic.
Fernando Gentilini served nearly two years as the civilian representative of NATO in Afghanistan, running a counterinsurgency campaign in the wartorn nation. Afghan Lessons is the fascinating story of his mission. He explores Afghan history, literature, tradition, and culture to understand some of the most basic questions of Western involvement.
Influencing Armed Forces Worldwide to Support Democratic Transition:Two
Presents instructive case studies of democratic movements and transitions, almost all prepared by authors from the country or region understudy. This title explores the potential for democratic armed forces to influence change both in dictatorships like Iran and North Korea and transitioning countries such as Egypt, Kazakhstan and Burma.
Influencing Armed Forces Worldwide to Support Democratic Transition: Vol
The response of an autocratic nation's armed forces is crucial to the outcome of democratization movements throughout the world. But what exact internal conditions have led to real-world democratic transitions, and have external forces helped or hurt? Here, experts with military and policy backgrounds present instructive case studies of democratic ......
How America's War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam
Examining relations between America and the Muslim world, the author draws on forty case studies representing the global span of Islam to demonstrate how the US has become involved directly or indirectly in each of these societies.
Maintaining Military Preeminence While Cutting the Defense Budget
Considers how best to balance national security and fiscal responsibility during a period of prolonged economic stress and political acrimony - even as the world remains unsettled, from Afghanistan to Iran to Syria to the western Pacific region.
Influencing Armed Forces Worldwide to Support Democratic Transition: Vol
The response of an autocratic nation's armed forces is crucial to the outcome of democratization movements throughout the world. But what exact internal conditions have led to real-world democratic transitions, and have external forces helped or hurt? Here, experts with military and policy backgrounds present instructive case studies of democratic ......
A Parable of Leadership and Decision Making in Modern Conflict
* Instruction on the best ways to command a counterinsurgency operation, presented in the form of a parable in which a fictional commander participates in virtual reality simulations of various fictional combat situations that include elements of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan * Explores the likely consequences of a range of command ...
Shows how the US government's approach to strategic communication has been misguided. This title offers an evaluation of the concepts, doctrines, and activities that the US Department of Defense and Department of State employ for psychological operations, military information support operations, propaganda, and public diplomacy.
India's approach of arming without strategic purpose remains viable, however, as it seeks great-power accommodation of its rise and does not want to appear threatening. What should we anticipate from this effort in the future, and what are the likely ramifications? This title answers those questions.
A Comprehensive Approach for International Security
More than ever, international security and economic prosperity depend upon safe access to the shared domains that make up the global commons: maritime, air, space, and cyberspace. This title provides a forum where contributors identify ways to strengthen and maintain responsible use of the global commons.
A Comprehensive Approach for International Security
More than ever, international security and economic prosperity depend upon safe access to the shared domains that make up the global commons: maritime, air, space, and cyberspace. This title provides a forum where contributors identify ways to strengthen and maintain responsible use of the global commons.
French Influence on the American Way of Warfare from Independence to the
Examines concrete battlefield tactics, army regulations, and theoretical works on war to demonstrate that as a cultural construction, warfare and ways of warfare can be transnational and can influence other nations
Strategy and Policy Choices for America's Longest War
Given the realities of the Taliban's persistence and the desire of US policymakers - and the public - to find a way out, what can and should be the goals of the US and its allies in Afghanistan? This title provides a comprehensive assessment of the alternatives for restoring peace and stability to Afghanistan.
In this study Bruce G. Blair examines accepted assumptions about mutual deterrence, force strength, and survivability, and concludes that the vulnerability of command, control, and communications not only precludes an effective retaliatory strike but also invites a preemptive Soviet first strike.
What History Teaches Us about Strategic Barriers and International Secur
A number of nations, conspicuously Israel and the United States, have been increasingly attracted to the use of strategic barriers to promote national defense. This book examines the historical use of strategic defences such as walls or fortifications to evaluate their effectiveness and consider their implications for modern security.
These are extraordinary times in U.S. national security policy. America remains engaged in both Iraq and Afghanistan while facing a global economic downturn.
In this book foreign policy experts analyze current U.S.security concerns and the adequacy (or inadequacy) of current policies designed to address them. The authors present both the big picture and the smaller components of the U.S. security policy that make up the whole.
The optimism that arrived at the end of the cold war and marked the turn of the Millennium was shattered by September 11. Terrorism is but one aspect of many other wider concerns for national and international security. This title provides an assessment of the prospects for peace and security in the 21st century.
Lays out the case for four different options, each of which could serve as the organizing principle for future US defense plans and budgets. This Council Policy Initiative presents these choices as presidential speeches, preceded by a memo that explains the strengths, weaknesses, and politics of each alternative.
This updated edition incorporates lessons from the war in Afghanistan, other developemnts since September 11, and a critical assessment of the Bush administration's defense strategy and budget plan, both of which were formulated and publicly unveiled after the release of the book's first edition.
Provides the first comprehensive assessment of India as a political and strategic power since its nuclear testing, its 1999 war with Pakistan, and its breakthrough economic achievements.
The New Weapons of Mass Destruction and Their Challenge to American Lead
This volume recommends an integrated programme of strategy, policy, arms-control negotiations and nuclear deployments to foster the necessary co-operation between America and other countries, while retaining strong nuclear deterrence as the foundation of American security strategy.
This latest study in the Brookings series on U.S. defense strategy and the defense budget reviews current American military capabilities and offers suggestions for the new administration and Congress.
A Blueprint for Deep Cuts and De-Alerting of Nuclear Weapons
Despite the ongoing drawdown of strategic forces under the terms of START, both the United States and Russia maintain large arsenals of nuclear weapons poised for immediate launch.
An explanation of the inner workings of the US-Japan alliance. It recommends approaches to sustaining this critical bilateral security relationship, discussing where the alliance came from, how it is managed, and the strategic decisions that will have to be made in the future.
William J. Perry and Ashton B. Carter, two of the world's foremost defense authorities, draw on their experience as leaders of the U.S. Defense Department to propose a new American security strategy for the twenty-first century.
Examining the direction and underlying assumptions of the transatlantic security relationship, this book presents three essays grounded in competing theoretical traditions. It aims to clarify the intellectual roots of ongoing debate about Atlantic security.
Details the revival of the German armed forces after World War I and the assistance given to them by the Soviet Union. The authors aim to reveal the contents of uncovered secret documents that prove that German forces trained and built new equipment, including tanks and airplanes, in a shroud of secrecy on Russian soil.
