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  • The Limits of Offshore Balancing
    Hal Brands / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College / U.SArmy War College
    The United States is likely to face crucial grand strategic decisions in the coming years. This being the case, it is essential to have a rigorous, well-informed debate not simply about the nation’s current grand strategy and policies, but about the most salient grand strategic options and alternatives open to the United States as well. In this monograph, Professor Hal Brands c...
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    20,01 €

  • The Effective Use of Reserve Personnel In The U.S. Military
    Shima D. Keene / Shima DKeene / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College / U.SArmy War College
    The U.S. Army and the British Army are undergoingsimilar processes of rebalancing between regularand reserve personnel. The British armed forces arecurrently at a more advanced stage of this change thanthe United States, and consequently there are usefullessons to be drawn from their experience to date. Thisis particularly the case in a time of growing defenseausterity; in addi...
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    17,75 €

  • Do Fewer Resources Mean Less Influence? A Comparative Historical Case Study of Military Influence in A Time of Austerity
    Mary Manjikian / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College / U.SArmy War College
    In the 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review, militaryplanners speak at great length about the importance ofrebalancing our armed forces. As a result of the BudgetControl Act of 2011, our U.S. Armed Forces haveabsorbed significant budget cuts, which are projectedto continue into 2016. Not surprisingly, a major themeof the Quadrennial Defense Review is the necessity ofmaking tough cho...
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    19,96 €

  • Stepping Up
    Joel R. Hillison / Joel RHillison / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College / U.SArmy War College
    Burden sharing is back. Indeed many observers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Alliance would claim that it never went away. This is because, from its inception in 1949, NATO has never been an alliance of equals. The United States has always made the overwhelmingly larger contribution, not only for the defense of Europe under Article 5 of the NATO Treaty, but al...
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    33,61 €

  • Creating an Effective Regional Alignment Strategy for The U.S. Army
    David S. Lyle / David SLyle / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College / U.SArmy War College
    This monograph focuses upon 'regional alignment,' viewed by many as critical if the Army is to remain both relevant and effective in the 21st century security environment. Despite its title, the monograph is part of the Strategic Studies Institute’s ongoing 'talent management' series. In fact, the authors argue that world class talent management is a necessary pre-condition to ...
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    17,35 €

  • Russia and The Caspian Sea
    Strategic Studies Institute / Tracey German / U.S. Army War College / U.SArmy War College
    In November 2012, Russia’s Caspian Flotilla celebrated its 290th anniversary. Established by Peter the Great in 1722, the Flotilla was a key component of the Russian Empire’s expansion into the Caspian region, and nearly 300 years later, it remains a vital element of continued Russian influence in its 'south.' The Russian Ministry of Defense (MOD) describes the Caspian Flotilla...
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    20,08 €

  • USAWC- Key Strategic Issues List 2014-2015
    Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College / U.SArmy War College
    Today we continue to face an uncertain, complicated and rapidly changing international security environment. At the same time, the Army has been asked to rapidly draw down force levels, in light of domestic fiscal challenges. In the face of continuing international tensions and budget austerity, the Army’s greatest challenge is to provide steadfast support to worldwide operatio...
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    23,32 €

  • A History of the U.S. Army Officer Corps, 1900-1990
    Arthur T. Coumbe / Strategic Studies Institute / U. S. Army War College Press
    The Army's Office of Economic and Manpower Analysis published a series of monographs during 2009 and 2010 intended to provide a theoretical and conceptual framework for an Army Officer Corps Strategy. The present volume supplements that effort, providing an overview of some key developments and assumptions that have guided and shaped the officer corps and the way it has been ma...
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    25,51 €

  • Strategic Retrenchment and Renewal in the American Experience
    Peter Feaver / Strategic Studies Institute
    At a time of fiscal constraint and global uncertainty, should the United States retrench geopolitically or seek to reinvigorate its international leadership? This collection of essays puts this pressing question in historical and theoretical context. The authors examine past episodes in which U.S. policymakers confronted similar choices, and draw insights from the strategies th...
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    27,00 €

  • Visual Propaganda and Extremism in the Online Enivironment
    Strategic Studies Institute
    Visual images have been a central component of propaganda for as long as propaganda has been produced. But recent developments in communication and information technologies have given terrorist and extremist groups options and abilities they never would have been able to come close to even 5 or 10 years ago. There are terrorist groups who, with very little initial investment, a...
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    25,32 €

  • U.S. Security Policy in the Western Hemisphere
    Max G. Manwaring / Max GManwaring / Strategic Studies Institute
    This is one in the Special Series of monographs stemming from the February 2001 conference on Plan Colombia cosponsored by the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College and The Dante B. Fascell North-South Center of the University of Miami. In this monograph, Dr. Max G. Manwaring provides a comprehensive analysis of the Colombian crisis situation and makes viable...
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    16,87 €

  • W(h)Ither Corps?
    D. Robert Worley / DRobert Worley / Strategic Studies Institute
    In a March 2001 address to the Association of the United States Army, General Eric Shinseki noted, 'We are once again an army between the wars, and once again, we are challenged to adjust to break old paradigms. So we are transforming to become strategically responsive and remain dominant across the entire spectrum of military operations.' Army transformation has many dimension...
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    17,28 €

  • Preparing for Asymmetry
    Melissa Applegate / Strategic Studies Institute
    Since the mid-1990s, the concept of strategic asymmetry has begun to receive serious attention from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). The 1997 Quadrennial Defense Review, for instance, stated, 'U.S. dominance in the conventional military arena may encourage adversaries to use . . . asymmetric means to attack our forces and interests overseas and Americans at home.' But whil...
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    17,95 €

  • Revising the Two Mtw Force Shaping Paradigm
    Steven Metz / Strategic Studies Institute
    U.S. military strategy is undergoing its most serious examination since the end of the Cold War. Led by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, this process is designed to assess every dimension of the strategy, including its most basic assumptions and concepts. For the first time in over a decade, everything about U.S. military strategy is subject to question. One of the most im...
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    24,72 €

  • Soldiers in Cities
    Michael C. Desch / Michael CDesch / Strategic Studies Institute
    This compendium is the result of a conference on 'Military Operations in an Urban Environment' cosponsored by the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce in conjunction with the Kentucky Commission on Military Affairs, the U.S. Army War College, and the Association of the United States Army. At the time of the conference, the concept of homeland defense was eme...
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    24,23 €

  • The Army and Homeland Security
    Antulio J. Echevarria II / Antulio JEchevarria II / Strategic Studies Institute
    The topic of homeland security includes a broad array of missions and mission areas ranging from national missile defense to military assistance to civil authorities. Recently the topic has attracted a great deal of attention due to the public’s heightened awareness of the variety and nature of emerging threats and of the United States’ vulnerabilities to them. This monograph, ...
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    17,28 €

  • AC/Rc Integration
    Jr. Dallas D. Owens / JrDallas DOwens / Strategic Studies Institute
    The U.S. Army has had a 'Total Forces Policy' for over 30 years, with an increased focus for the past decade on what is now called Active Component/Reserve Component (AC/RC) integration. The modern version is distinguished by an increased frequency of inter-component training, the integration of reserve components into plans and operations for all contingencies, and RC particip...
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    18,41 €

  • European Perceptions of Plan Colombia
    Joaquin Roy / Strategic Studies Institute
    This is another in the special series of monographs emanating from the February 2001 conference on Plan Colombia co-sponsored by the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College and The Dante B. Fascell North-South Center of the University of Miami. In this monograph, Joaquin Roy provides a European view of Plan Colombia. Professor Roy, a Spaniard with valuable sour...
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    17,28 €

  • Internal Wars
    Max G. Manwaring / Max GManwaring / Strategic Studies Institute
    Dr. Max Manwaring wrote this monograph in response to the fact that today over half the countries in the global community are faced with one variation or another of asymmetric guerrilla war. Insurgencies, internal wars, and other small-scale contingencies (SSCs) are the most pervasive and likely type of conflict in the post-Cold War era. That the United States will become invol...
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    17,64 €

  • Plan Colombia
    Gabriel Marcella / Strategic Studies Institute
    The crisis in Colombia is the most compelling challenge the United States faces in the Western Hemisphere. The United States is committed to helping Colombia fight its struggle against the violence and corruption engendered by the traffic in narcotics. This report examines the strategic theory within Plan Colombia, the master plan which the government of Colombia developed to s...
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    17,35 €

  • The Rise of China in Asia
    Carolyn W. Pumphrey / Carolyn WPumphrey / Strategic Studies Institute
    In March 2001, the U.S. Army War College, the Triangle Institute for Security Studies, and Duke University ...
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    36,31 €

  • Tweaking NATO
    Raymond a. Millen / Raymond aMillen / Strategic Studies Institute
    In 1931, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur penned the following thoughts on innovation: ...
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    19,58 €

  • Defeating Terrorism
    Colonel John R. Martin / Colonel John RMartin / Strategic Studies Institute
    Within only a few days after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the U.S. Army War College initiated a series of short studies addressing strategic issues in the war on terrorism. This collection of essays analyzes a broad array of subjects of great strategic importance. Because national leaders were pressed to issue orders on the prosecution of the war on terrorism, i...
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    23,50 €

  • Pax NATO
    Raymond a. Millen / Raymond aMillen / Strategic Studies Institute
    Considering its long string of successes, it is curious that NATO has so many critics chanting the mantra of irrelevancy or decrying its post-Cold War initiatives. Paradoxically, pan-Europeanists seem quite willing to accept an ineffective security organization as long as it has a European label on it. Applying parochial protectionist practices on regional security may be irrev...
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    18,00 €

  • Plan Colombia
    Luz E. Nagle / Luz ENagle / Strategic Studies Institute
    As American foreign policy and military assetmanagement expand beyond the so-called 'Drug War' inColombia, Professor Luz Nagle analyzes that country’sproblems and makes recommendations regarding what itwill take to achieve stated U.S. and Colombian objectives inthat crisis situation. She also examines the concomitantissue of 'spillover' from the Colombian crisis into the rest o...
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    19,90 €

  • Army Professional Expertise And Jurisdictions
    Jr. Richard A. Lacquement / JrRichard ALacquement / Strategic Studies Institute
    With the soldiers of the Army deployed to over 120 countries and executing a wide variety of missions, the Army as a profession is being stretched to its limits. Richard Lacquement takes note of these developments and calls for a clarifi cation of what exactly the Army 'profession' entails. His mapping of the profession’s expert knowledge provides a framework to continue the de...
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    17,98 €

  • Reconstructing Iraq
    Conrad C. Crane / Conrad CCrane / Strategic Studies Institute / W. Andrew Terrill / WAndrew Terrill
    During World War II, the U.S. military’s extensive planning for the occupation of Germany was a major factor in achieving long-term strategic objectives after the war was won. More recent examples of military operations also emphasize the challenges of post-conflict operations and the criticality of detailed planning and preparation. As the possibility of war with Iraq looms on...
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    21,59 €

  • U.S.-Ukraine Military Relations And The Value Of Interoperability
    Leonid I. Polyakov / Leonid IPolyakov / Strategic Studies Institute
    Ukraine has been a pivotal actor in Eurasia since its independence in 1991. Ukraine’s destiny is critical to the security of the entire post- Soviet zone, and both it and the United States always have acted on that assumption. The stated goal of Ukrainian defense policy long has been to integrate with Euro-Atlantic structures like the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), ...
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    21,33 €

  • Civil-Military Cooperation In Peace Operations
    Strategic Studies Institute / Thomas R. Mockaitis / Thomas RMockaitis
    The U.S. missions to Bosnia and Kosovo and the current operation in Iraq make it clear that winning wars accomplishes little if we cannot also win the peace. The strategic goals for which the wars are fought can only be achieved if the follow-on mission leaves an occupied territory more stable and democratic than before. Civilmilitary cooperation (CIMIC) is the key to achieving...
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    16,85 €

  • Strategic Consequences Of The Iraq War
    Elizabeth Wishnick / Strategic Studies Institute
    Central Asia is a key theater in the war on terrorism where fragile new states are attempting to consolidate political power, build legitimacy, and stoke economic development at the same time that they face a range of threats with security forces badly in need of reform. While the United States has recognized the pivotal role of Central Asia and greatly expanded its activities ...
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    17,64 €


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