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The Domestic Economy and Post 9/11 National Security
The American domestic economy is the backbone of US national strength. It funds the national instru
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Mapro
The Mass Atrocity Prevention and Response Options (MAPRO) Policy Planning Handbook is a collaborati
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Promoting Japan and South Korea's Role in East Asian Security
The State Partnership Program, a National Guard supported initiative, is one of the many Theater Se
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Grand Strategy for a Globalized World
Globalization has resulted in a deeply interdependent international system. Strategists and policy
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Russia in the Arctic
The Arctic has returned with a vengeance as an area of international contention. Beginning in 2007,
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The Economic and Military Development of China and Its Implications on U.S. National Security
US, China, and Taiwan: the ties that bind The relationship of Republic of China (ROC), the People's
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Great Power Cyber Competition
Routledge 出版This volume conceptualizes the threats, challenges, opportunities, and boundaries of great power cy
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Western Balkans as Base for Radical Islamists
This thesis addresses the primary research question: Are the Balkans becoming a European sanctuary
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Will Japan Rearm?
This thesis examines the possibility of Japanese rearmament using a comparative case study approach
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Gulf Security in the Twenty-First Century
This Document was developed to explore the various aspects of security for the countries of the Gul
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Piracy or Maritime Terrorism? Developing a Comprehensive U.S. Counter-Piracy Policy
In this post-9/11 world, maritime security has taken on a much greater importance than in the past.
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Theater Nuclear Forces and Extended Deterrence in a Multipolar World
The role played by nonstrategic nuclear forces in the cold war logic of extended deterrence is chan
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Impacts of F-22 and Joint Strike Fighter Exports to the Middle East
In recent decades, stealth technology has provided the US with an unprecedented advantage in milita
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Resurgent Russia and America's Vital Interests
This research paper addresses the relevance of Russia's resurgence as an economic, political and mi
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The US Policy of Dual Containment Toward Iran and Iraq in Theory and Practice
The policy of dual containment has been adopted by the Clinton administration as a method whereby t
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The End of Hegemony
The era of US global hegemony is drawing to a close. Within the next quarter century, revolutionary
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CSWMD Case Study Series 5
Since its inception in 1994, the Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD Center) h
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Potential for Normal Political Relations Between the United States and Iran Following Presidential Elections in Each Country
With Presidential elections in both the United States and Iran occurring within eight months of eac
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Special Operations Forces Requirements for Africa Command
Africa holds growing geo-strategic importance and is a high priority of this Administration. It is
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India as a Responsible Nuclear Power
"After the tests of 1998, India has merely moved sideways from existential to minimum deterrence. F
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Evolution of China's Nuclear Capability
The strategic arms control process to reduce nuclear weapons and contain the proliferation of weapo
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Tactical Nuclear Weapons and NATO
NATO has been a "nuclear" alliance since its inception. Nuclear weapons have served the dual purpos
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The Diffusion of Military Technologies to Foreign Nations
The purpose of this work is to recommend the United States government maintain the defense technolo
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Operational Implications of Private Military Companies in the Global War on Terror
This monograph discusses the implications of private military companies (PMCs) in the global war on
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Understanding Measures of Effectiveness in Counterinsurgency Operations
Both the National Security Strategy and the National Defense Strategy recently recognized that insu
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Does the NATO Decision Process Support the Rapid Response Capabilities of the NATO Response Force?
The end of the Cold War ushered in a new security environment, one that was more diverse, and more
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A National Security Strategy for Sweden
National security strategies should entail all instruments of power and not just the military. Furt
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Korea and U.S. Security Strategy
The purpose of this paper is to examine the US security strategy in Northeast Asia in the post-Kore
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Strategic Communication and Public Affairs
Public Affairs and Strategic Communication are becoming increasingly more important in today's info
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The Fallacy of the Shiite Crescent and Arab Unity
Ever since King Abdullah II of Jordan quipped that the Middle East may soon see a Shiite Crescent s
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Unraveling the Persian Knot
In 1979 Ayatollah Khomeini's indirect approach ignited existing socio-economic conditions during th
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Turkey and Iran
Appraises the factors affecting the power potential of Turkey and Iran in international affairs, wi
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Leveraging U.S. Intelligence to Defeat Mexican Drug Trafficking Organization
According to the Mexican daily newspaper Reforma, in 2009 there were 6,567 drug-related homicides i
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US-China Military Engagement in the 21st Century
This research paper examines the current framework of military engagement between the US and China
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Economic Sanctions
Economic sanctions are a form of non-violent warfare that has been used more frequently over the pa
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Failing and Failed States
Since the end of the Cold War, Global security has been threatened more by weak nations than by dom
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NATO Relations With Ukraine
The two fold purpose of the paper is to discuss the reasons for the current status of relations wit
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INSS China Strategic Perspectives 4
The Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS) is National Defense University's (NDU's) dedica
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Interpreting Chinese Cyber Attacks of 2007
Cyberspace is rapidly gaining acceptance in the US defense community as a warfighting domain on par
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Assessing the Capabilities and Limitations of Counter-Proliferation Operations Utilizing Remote Radiation Detection Devices
A subject of national importance that poses a major security challenge for the United States and it
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Ignoring the Present
Combat is no longer an idea of massed armies marching off to face a fielded foe. This conclusion ca
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International Relations in a Multipolar Middle East
This volume explores the international relations of today's Middle East, a region that has become i
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Proliferation Weapons of Mass Destruction and International Insecurity
In present discussions on international security the issue of "Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Des
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Implications of the U.S. War on Terrorism for U.S.-China Policy
The catastrophic terrorist attacks of September 11 2001 (9/11) provide both challenges and opportun
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The US, Turkey, Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan
The intent of this paper is to provide a general framework to be used as a road map by the US to su
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Norway's Security Challenges in the New World
Norway has over the past century developed its security policy based on how it, as a small state in
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Bush's New World Order
The phrase "new world order" has been widely used on the political scene since first publicly coine
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Arms Control and European Security
The following three papers comprise one of the panels from a conference on U.S.-Russia relations th