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 | ASYMMETRIC WARFARE AND AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL ASYMMETRIC ADVANTAGES
This paper is divided in two parts. Part 1 critically examines how the Australian
Defence Forces four extant future operating conceptsFuture Joint Operating Concept
(FJOC), Future Maritime Operating Concept (FMOC), Adaptive Campaigning Future
Land Operating Concept (AC-FLOC), and the Future Air and Space Operating Concept
(FASOC)incorporate asymmetric war into the ADFs future warfighting and ...Read more > | 32 Pages 680.51 KB |
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 | CHINAS PREOCCUPATION WITH ASYMMETRIC WAR
Chinese leaders have decided long ago that, in the wake of a conflict, their military cannot fight and win a battle against the U.S. military on a force-on-force basis. However, that reality was not going to discourage a country whose strategic culture has produced original thinkers of the caliber and reputation of Sun Tzu and Mao ...Read more > | 7 Pages 789.38 KB |
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 | RETHINKING THE SUBCOMPONENTS OF WORLD ORDER
As we begin to imagine a post-Long War era, a renewed appreciation of the fundamental building blocks of world order is required, with a greater focus on the tribe and other sub-, trans- and non-state entities. Such subcomponents are not entirely unfamiliar to the student of classical realism; it was one of the
earliest sub-state ...Read more > | 10 Pages 347.84 KB |
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 | IRAN AND THE GULF MILITARY BALANCE - I
The most threatening form of US and Iranian competition takes place in the military and security arena. Currently, the areas in which this competition receives primary attention are developments in the nuclear and missile arena, and Iranian threats to close the Gulf. US and Iranian tensions over Irans nuclear program have grown steadily over the ...Read more > | 185 Pages 3.18 MB |
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 | AN ASYMMETRICAL SYMMETRY: HOW CONVENTION HAS BECOME INNOVATIVE MILITARY THOUGHT
In the last few years, notions like asymmetric warfare and, more recently,
hybrid warfare have become as common and pervasive as to appear like new
orthodoxy in military thought. Contemporary doctrine, official documents, papers,
briefings strive to pay tribute or reverence to these new ideas. If no reference is made to them, the author is accused of conservatism, myopia, ignorance, or bad ...Read more > | 43 Pages 368.36 KB |
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 | ASYMMETRIC WARFARE IN SOUTH ASIA : CRISES OF 1999, 2002 AND BEYOND PART -II
An overview of the conference objectives, Center for Contemporary Conflict (CCC) activities, and the Kargil project. Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Mathew Thomas welcomed all participants, and talked about Center for Contemporary Conflict (CCC) and the United Service Institution of India cooperation. Col. S.C. Tyagi gave a brief presentation on the terrain and topography of Kargil and Kashmir more generally. ...Read more > | 12 Pages 39 KB |
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 | ASYMMETRIC WARFARE IN SOUTH ASIA : CRISES OF 1999, 2002 AND BEYOND PART - I
An overview of the conference objectives, Center for Contemporary Conflict (CCC) activities, and the Kargil project. Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Mathew Thomas welcomed all participants, and talked about Center for Contemporary Conflict (CCC) and the United Service Institution of India cooperation. Col. S.C. Tyagi gave a brief presentation on the terrain and topography of Kargil and Kashmir more ...Read more > | 17 Pages 60.4 KB |
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 | ASYMMETRIES AND CONSEQUENCES
In the latter years of the 18th Century and spilling into the 19th Century, isms of one kind or another swelled European languages. The suffix ism was meant to connote distinctive theories, doctrines, or practices associated with the root word. The word terrorism, first
recorded in English in 1795, was constructed to describe the systematic practices used by the governing body in France to frighten, coerce and eradicate the enemies of the French Revolution in 1793 and 1794. The French Reign of ...Read more > | 10 Pages 54.63 KB |
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 | WHY THE STRONG LOSE
The continuing insurgency in Iraq underscores the capacity of the weak to
impose considerable military and political pain on the strong. Whether
that pain will compel the United States to abandon its agenda in Iraq remains to be seen. What is not in dispute is that all major failed US uses of force since 1945—in Vietnam, Lebanon and Somalia—have been against materially weaker enemies. In wars both hot and cold, the United States has fared consistently well against such powerful enemies as ...Read more > | 16 Pages 87.21 KB |
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 | GLOBALIZATION AFTER 9 OBLIQUE 11
Without going back too far in time, let us examine the major stages of
the evolution of war (military conflict) since the end of World War II. Since 1945, several constituents of war have remained basically unchanged. The subjects of war were states and their armed forces, which implied the acknowledgement and establishment of a series of rules related to the conduct of warfare (i.e., being at war as a separate legal state, international law and regulations, rules on the treatment of prisoners ...Read more > | 32 Pages 133.12 KB |
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 | LEARNING FROM IRAQ : COUNTERINSURGENCY IN AMERICAN STRATEGY
In this monograph, Dr. Steven Metz, who has been writing on counterinsurgency for several decades,draws strategic lessons about counterinsurgency from the Iraq conflict. He contends that the United States is likely to undertake it in coming decades but, based on the performance in Iraq, may not be adequately prepared depending on the grand strategy which the United States adopts.The Strategic Studies Institute is pleased to offer this
monograph as a contribution to Army and Joint ...Read more > | 135 Pages 990.50 KB |
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