As events in late December 2013 and early 2014 have made brutally clear, Iraq is a nation in crisis bordering on civil war. It is burdened by a long history of war, internal power struggles, and failed ...Read more >

The objective of this monograph is to explore Chinas perception of Indias Look East Policy (LEP) and how that affects Indias strategy in the Asia-Pacific ...Read more >

Insurgency has been the most prevalent form of armed conflict since at least 1949.1 Despite that fact, following the Vietnam War and through the remainder of the Cold War, the U.S. military establishment turned its back on ...Read more >

No single aspect of US and Iranian military competition is potentially more dangerous than the missile and nuclear dimensions, and the possibility Iran will deploy long-range, nuclear-armed ...Read more >

No person or place is immune from disasters or disaster-related losses. Infectious disease outbreaks, acts of terrorism, social unrest, or financial disasters in addition to natural hazards can all lead to large-scale consequences for the nation and its ...Read more >

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is a large, complex federal organization whose mission is of the utmost importance: securing the nation. The 200,000 men and women who make up the ...Read more >

In the post-colonial phase, the regions of Asia, Africa, and Latin America have experienced varying degrees of political, social and economic turbulence. The goal of political leadership in all the regions has been the establishment of democracy and achievement of economic growth, in order to provide peace and stability to their ...Read more >

At the time this Report is being released, the world economy continues to emerge slowly from the most serious economic crisis of the postWorld War II periodone that has deeply transformed the global economy and highlighted the increasingly important role that emerging markets and developing economies play in the global ...Read more >

The emergence of the Peoples Republic of China as an increasingly significant military power in the Western Pacific presents major implications for Japan, the U.S.-Japan alliance, and regional ...Read more >

Excellence in Ecology (EE) presents books authored by noted ecologists of our time: the recipients of the Ecology Institute Prize. EE is published by the international Ecology Institute (ECI) which presently has a staff of 41 marine, terrestrial and limnetic research ecologists - all of high professional ...Read more >

The Army Profession has two complementary and mutually supporting componentsthe Army Profession of Arms and the Army Civilian Corps. The Army Profession of Arms is composed of uniformed members of the Profession, those skilled in the art of warfare and under unlimited liability in its killing and ...Read more >

Attitudes Arent Free : Thinking Deeply about Diversity in the US Armed Forces emerged from a vision to collect essays from the brightest voices of experts across the range of contentious social issues to catalyze productive discussions between military members of all ranks and ...Read more >

The history of the Joint Chief of Staff parallels the emergence of the United States in a great-power role and the growing demands that those responsibilities placed on American policymakers and military planners. During World War II, the major challenge was to wage a global war successfully on two fronts, one in Europe, the other in Asia and the ...Read more >

With most of the worlds advanced economies now stuck in recession Western support for defense cuts and nuclear disarmament increasing and a major emerging Asian power at odds with its neighbors and the United ...Read more >

For a description of the human and material wreckage left in the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War, Richard Swain reaches back to the classical world. It was, he writes, "'a hecatomb'-a gruesome sacrifice of hapless victims on a terrifying scale, meant to propitiate the ancient gods."l Hapless, note, not helpless. Saddam Hussein's soldiers did not begin their war meaning to be victims. That role was meant for the people of Kuwait. Saddam's soldiers were made that way by their own leaders and by ...Read more >