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While the most famous leaders of the LeT networks, Hafiz Mohammad Saeed and Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi, are under house arrest and in jail awaiting trial, respectively, LeT still poses a significant threat. It's a threat that comes not so much from LeT as a single jihadist force but LeT as a concept, a banner under which various groups and individuals can gather, coordinate and successfully conduct ...Read more > | 92 Pages 897.94 KB |
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 | HIMALAYAN RIVERS : GEOPOLITICS AND STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVES
A few days after the beginning of the invasion,
the Xinhua News Agency issued a communiqu
that the PLA would soon achieve the task of
marching into Tibet to liberate the Tibetan people,
to complete the important mission of unifying the
motherland, to prevent imperialism from
encroaching on even one inch of our sovereign
territory and to protect and build the frontiers ...Read more > | 9 Pages 302.89 KB |
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 | GRAND STRATEGY : THEORY AND PRACTICE
Strategic Studies is a relatively new discipline; it only became a serious academic subject
as a sub-field of International Relations scholarship in the 1950s. Beforehand, strategy
was the province of primarily military officers, and only a handful of those officers
explored the full political-military dimension of strategy as a concept. As such, the
"idea" of strategy and strategic thinking confronts the student and strategist alike with
many problems, not the least of which is the ...Read more > | 164 Pages 5.45 MB |
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RevolutionTheFutureisNow.jpg) | TODAYS TRAINING AND EDUCATION (DEVELOPMENT) REVOLUTION : THE FUTURE IS NOW
The challenge the Army faces today is not one of over-thinking situations; rather, it is the failure to think clearly in situations that require sound judgment at junior levels,
and leadership’s hesitation to believe that juniors can or will think clearly. Soldiers
and junior leaders who are trained or conditioned to “look” at the situation—i.e., to
assess, exercise judgment and make decisions—are more decisive, deliberate and
correct in their ...Read more > | 24 Pages 428.94 KB |
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 | THEORY OF WAR AND STRATEGY- VOL-I
The U. S. Army War College Guide to National Security Issues is the latest edition of the U. S. Army War College Guide to National Security Policy and Strategy, which the college has published sporadically under different titles since 2001. As begun with the last publication, this edition of the Guide is in two volumes that correspond roughly to the two core courses that the Department of National Security and Strategy teaches: “Theory of War and Strategy” and “National Security Policy and ...Read more > | 385 Pages 3.38 MB |
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 | DEFENSE STRATEGIC PLANNING : THE MISSING NEXUS
The development of strategic plans by the Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff should provide the critical nexus in
connecting the National Command Authorities’ strategic direction
of the U.S. armed forces with the planning and operations
conducted by the combatant commands and the support provided by
the Services and defense ...Read more > | 51 Pages 100.72 KB |
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 | TALKING GRAND STRATEGY
At the strategic level, the campaign replaces the engagement, and the
theater of operations takes the place of the position. At the next stage, the
war as a whole replaces the campaign, and the whole country the theater
of ...Read more > | 5 Pages 794.45 KB |
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 | THE 2006 LEBANON CAMPAIGN AND THE FUTURE OF WARFARE : IMPLICATIONS FOR ARMY AND DEFENSE POLICY
The future of nonstate military actors is a central
issue for U.S. strategy and defense planning. It
is widely believed that such combatants will be
increasingly common opponents for the U.S. military,
and many now advocate sweeping change in U.S.
military posture to prepare for this—the debate over
the associated agenda for “low-tech” or irregular
warfare transformation is quickly becoming one of the
central issues for U.S. defense policy and ...Read more > | 110 Pages 706.90 KB |
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 | RETHINKING LEADERSHIP AND WHOLE OF GOVERNMENT NATIONAL SECURITY REFORM :
The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing
he can’t know. He can’t know whether knowledge
will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right,
but he can’t know whether he is killed because of
the knowledge which he has got or because of the
knowledge which he hasn’t got and which if he had
it, would save him. . . . for the end of man is to ...Read more > | 230 Pages 927.27 KB |
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 | SHORT OF GENERAL WAR : PERSPECTIVES ON THE USE OF MILITARY POWER IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Looking out to 2025, many see the potential for a prolonged period of instability as a result of competing economic models, demographics, the rise of new international actors and the resurgence of old ones, climate change, and the scarcity of resources. The range of stability challenges will stretch the capabilities of any military force structure and require innovative thinking on the part of policymakers and military professionals alike concerning the appropriate development and use of the ...Read more > | 288 Pages 1.91 MB |
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