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 | PREPARING FOR ONE WAR AND GETTING ANOTHER?
The views expressed in this report are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Army, the Department of Defense, or the U.S. Government. Authors of Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) publications enjoy full academic freedom, provided they do not disclose classified information, jeopardize operations security, or misrepresent official U.S. ...Read more > | 51 Pages 2.21 MB |
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 | FIGHTING THE IDEOLOGICAL BATTLE THE MISSING LINK IN U.S. STRATEGY TO COUNTER VIOLENT EXTREMISM
The challenge of “waging a global campaign
against al-Qaeda and its terrorist affiliates” remains
the central objective of U.S. counterterrorism policy.1
Keeping this central goal narrowly defined has its merits,
focusing all elements of national power on a singular
aim without subordinating other elements of our
national security. Indeed, as the 2010 National Security
Strategy made clear, “Terrorism is one of many threats
that are more consequential in a global ...Read more > | 30 Pages 478.99 KB |
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 | 2008 NATIONAL DEFENSE STRATEGY
A core responsibility of the U.S. Government is to protect the American people – in the words of the framers of our Constitution, to “provide for the common defense.” For more than 230 years, the U.S. Armed Forces have served as a bulwark of liberty, opportunity, and prosperity at home. Beyond our shores, America shoulders additional responsibilities on behalf of the world. For those struggling for a better life, there is and must be no stronger advocate than the United ...Read more > | 29 Pages 4.31 MB |
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.jpg) | NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY AND STRATEGY-VOLUME II :
The most fundamental task in devising a grand strategy is to determine a nation’s national interests. Once they are identified, they drive a nation’s foreign policy and military strategy; they determine the basic direction that it takes, the types and amounts of resources that it needs, and the manner in which the state must employ them to succeed. Because of the critical role that national interests play, they must be carefully justified, not merely ...Read more > | 413 Pages 2.90 MB |
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 | AN INTRODUCTION TO THEATER STRATEGY AND REGIONAL SECURITY
This overview of theater strategy and theater
security cooperation is a primer on one of the most
important tools the U.S. military uses to engage other
countries, deter unwanted actions, and defend U.S.
and friendly nation interests. To be effective, theater
strategy and theater security cooperation must be
derived from and consistently linked to national
and multinational strategic guidance and policy,
and formulated to meet the requirements found in
each ...Read more > | 61 Pages 668.85 KB |
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 | ALIEN : HOW OPERATIONAL ART DEVOURED
There was a time when the world had no need for operational
art, a time when sovereigns led their armies in the
field and where the yoking of war to politics was their personal
undertaking. It was the sovereign who chose whether
or not to fight, where to fight, how long to fight, and it
was they who were constantly balancing opportunities and
threats, risks and returns, costs and ...Read more > | 128 Pages 502.16 KB |
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 | GUIDE TO NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY AND STRATEGY 2ND EDITION
This edition of the U.S. Army War College Guide to National Security Policy and Strategy reflects to some extent
recent changes in the structure of the core curriculum at the War College. The college broke its traditional core
course, “War, National Policy and Strategy,” into two courses: “Theory of War and Strategy” and “National
Security Policy and Strategy.” The result for this book is the expansion of the block on strategic theory and the
introduction of a block on specific strategic ...Read more > | 405 Pages 3.30 MB |
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 | GUIDE TO STRATEGY
The dom inant trend within uni versities and think tanks is to ward ever-narrowing spe cializa -
tion: a higher pre mium is placed on func tioning deeply within a sin gle field than broadly across
several. And yet with out some aware ness of the whole—with out some sense of how means converge
to ac complish or to frus trate ends—there can be no strat egy. And with out strat egy there is
only ...Read more > | 282 Pages 1.26 MB |
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 | GROWING STRATEGIC LEADERS FOR FUTURE CONFLICT
Global operations since 2001 highlight certain characteristics of the US
military’s emerging operating environment. Future operations will likely
take place “amongst the people” in a wide range of unpredictable environments.
1 Managing these conflicts will require extensive collaboration
between military and civilian agencies representing a range of governments,
intergovernmental organizations, and nongovernmental ...Read more > | 17 Pages 439.01 KB |
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.jpg) | GUIDE TO NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY AND STRATEGY 1ST EDITION
This edition of the U. S. Army War College Guide to National Security Policy and Strategy differs from
its predecessor published in 2001, The U. S. Army War College Guide to Strategy, in several respects.
First, as the altered title suggests, the focus of the volume has expanded to include examination of the
national security policymaking environment and process in addition to the earlier emphasis on ...Read more > | 295 Pages 1.65 MB |
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 | WHAT IS GRAND STRATEGY?
When my colleagues Paul Kennedy, Charlie Hill, and I first began talking about setting up a grand strategy course at Yale in the late 1990s, at least half the people to whom we tried to explain this thought we were talking about “grant” strategy: how do you get the next federal or foundation ...Read more > | 17 Pages 132.61 KB |
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