This edition of the U. S. Army War College Guide to National Security Policy and Strategy continues to reflect the structure and approach of the core national security strategy and policy curriculum at the War ...Read more >

Strategy is an art. It is also somewhat scientific, in that it follows certain patterns which require a common understanding of terminology, adherence to certain principles, and disciplined, albeit creative, thought processes. Remember that these strategy formulation guidelines are not formulas. Strategy will be developed in keeping with the particular features of the time, place, and personalities ...Read more >

U.S Army War College Guide to National Security Volume II : National Security Policy and ...Read more >

Carl von Clausewitz’s well-traveled assertion that war is the continuation of policy, or politics, by other means remains enormously popular so much so, in fact, that scholars have repeatedly chosen to emphasize it as the most important part of his legacy.[i] But they ought to have known better. That assertion is no more representative of the sum of his thinking than the phrase “will to power� signifies the totality of the thought of the German philosopher ...Read more >

A National Security Strategy Primer provides National War College (NWC) students with a common point of departure for consideration of national security strategy and is designed as a principal tool for understanding and achieving core course learning objectives. The primer specifically addresses key concepts of national security strategy and outlines a broad approach for strategy development. Additionally, the primer serves to set a common national strategy language for use within ...Read more >

A National Security Strategy Primer provides students with a common point of reference for material covered in the National War College curriculum. We use the Primer as a point of departure for discussions about strategy, and as a principal tool for understanding and achieving core course learning objectives. The Primer specifically addresses the concept of national security strategy and an approach for developing it, one that should be studied closely. In addition to using ...Read more >

The United States met the 21st century involved in conflict. Before the end of 2001, the nation was embroiled in operations in Afghanistan in response to the 11 September terrorist attacks on the ...Read more >

Today’s global security environment is the most unpredictable I have seen in 40 years of service. Since the last National Military Strategy was published in 2011, global disorder has significantly increased while some of our comparative ...Read more >

A French philosopher once said that “no problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.” This bold claim might never have been made had he encountered the challenges of the modern Middle ...Read more >

This monograph examines the challenge in future threat definition. In order to do so, it is necessary to understand where identification of threat originates, and how and why such identification is made in the context ...Read more >

JEAN-LOUP SAMAAN is a researcher for the Middle East Faculty at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Defense College in Rome, Italy. He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies ...Read more >

The military balance in the Gulf region, and is strategic stability is shaped by both forces of the Arab Gulf states and their strategic partnerships with outside ...Read more >

The Army Cloud Computing Strategy establishes and communicates the Army’s vision and strategy for delivering cloud-enabled network capabilities to improve mission and business effectiveness, increase operational ...Read more >

In a classic work published at the height of the Second World War,Makers of Modern Strategy: Military Thought from Machiavelli to Hitler,editor Edward Meade Earle defined grand strategy as “the art of controlling and utilizing the resources of a ...Read more >

Changes in energy technology and in the way oil and gas reserves are estimated are raising serious questions about the future of US dependence on energy imports, and how this affects US strategy. ...Read more >