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  • Regionalizing East Mediterranean Gas
    Mohammed El-Katiri / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College / U.SArmy War College
    In recent years the distribution of the world’s exploitable energy reserves has shifted markedly. One major change is the discovery of substantial gas deposits offshore the Levant. But while these deposits have the potential to revolutionize the economies of the net energy importers, Cyprus, Lebanon, and Israel, they also bring into sharp focus long-running disputes over mariti...
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  • The U.S.-India Relationship
    Dr. Michael J. Fratantuono / DrMichael JFratantuono / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College / U.SArmy War College
    Over the past 2 decades, the global system has been subject to a range of forces which have reconfigured relationships among individuals, organizations, and nation-states. As an aspect of that changing structure and rising interdependence, many security challenges which confront today’s strategic leaders are grounded in concerns about economic, social, and environmental sustain...
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    39,77 €

  • A History of The U.S. Army Officer Corps, 1900-1990
    Arthur T. Coumbe / Arthur TCoumbe / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College / U.SArmy War College
    The Army’s Office of Economic and Manpower Analysis published a series of monographs that were intended to provide a theoretical and conceptual framework for the development of an Army Officer Corps Strategy. These monographs consider the creation and maintenance of a highly skilled Officer Corps in the context of the nation’s continuing commitment to an all-volunteer military,...
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  • A New Type of Great Power Relationship Between The United States and China
    Geoffrey Till / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College / U.SArmy War College
    For the United States and its allies and partners around the world, the debate about the pivot or rebalancing of American interests toward the Asia-Pacific Region is crucial. The United States has to ensure that allies and partners in other areas do not feel neglected or disadvantaged by the possible consequences of this initiative. To a large extent, this will depend not merel...
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  • Political and Socio-Economic Change
    John R. Deni / John RDeni / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College / U.SArmy War College
    Significant political, economic, and social change can dramatically impact the international security environment and hence U.S. security. For example, the revolutions that have unfolded across the Middle East and North Africa over the last several years have impacted American interests such as the security of Israel and the spread of democracy. Likewise, the less 'revolutionar...
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  • 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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  • United States-Gulf Cooperation Council Security Cooperation in a Multipolar World
    Mohammed El-Katiri / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College / U.SArmy War College
    Profound changes in regional geopolitical dynamics in the Arabian Gulf since the early-2000s render the region a highly challenging environment for U.S. foreign policy and military engagement. At a time of continuing domestic instability in Iraq and an increasingly isolated Iran, the geopolitical weight of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states has risen dramatically over th...
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  • 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 €

  • Maneuvering The Islamist-Secularist Divide in The Arab World
    Gregory Aftandilian / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College / U.SArmy War College
    The Middle East is again in the midst of turmoil. While much of the focus is on the sectarian divide and conflict between Sunni and Shia being played out in several countries and among different groups, an equally important division is occurring between secularists and Islamists in a number of Arab countries. This conflict is particularly acute in the countries of the so-called...
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  • 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 €

  • Cyberterrorism After Stuxnet
    Strategic Studies Institute / Thomas M. Chen / Thomas MChen / U. S. Army War College / U.S. Army War College / USArmy War College
    Public government statements have cited cyberattacks by terrorists as a major concern for national security. To date, no large-scale cyber-terrorist attack has been observed, but terrorists are known to be using the Internet for various routine purposes. The discovery of Stuxnet in 2010 was a milestone in the arena of cybersecurity because, although a malware attack on industri...
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  • Democratization And Instability In Ukraine, Georgia, And Belarus
    Robert Nalbandov / Strategic Studies Institute / U. S. Army War College Press / U.S. Army War College Press / USArmy War College Press
    Nations democratize at a different pace: Some achieve high governance standards, lasting political stability, and robust economies; others are lingering in their desires to look and act like their democratic counterparts. While no country strictly follows similar patterns of democratic institutionalization, there is a variable that defines the rate of success of their efforts: ...
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  • Notes on Anti-Aircraft Guns - Compiled at the Army War College from the Latest Available Information - April, 1917 (WWI Centenary Series)
    U. S. Army War College / USArmy War College
    Originally published in 1917, this work is an informative work on the varieties and uses of anti-aircraft guns. It includes information on the types of gun used by the British, the Italians, the French, the Germans, and the Americans. It is a fascinating read for anyone with an interest in weaponry during the First World War. This book is part of the World War One Centenary ser...
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    13,74 €

  • From War To Deterrence? Israel-Hezbollah Conflict Since 2006
    Jean-Loup Samaan / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College / U.SArmy War College
    The 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah has generated a vast amount of academic and military studies, including a number from the Strategic Studies Institute. Specifically, authors have tried to identify the new patterns of warfare through this conflict and sometimes have even called it the first illustration of 'hybrid war.' This new monograph by Dr. Jean-Loup Samaan does no...
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    19,22 €

  • The Chinese People’s Liberation Army And Information Warfare
    Larry M. Wortzel / Larry MWortzel / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College / U.SArmy War College
    On November 23, 2013, China’s Ministry of National Defense spokesman announced that a new air defense intercept zone (ADIZ) will be established by the government to include the Diaoyu, or Senkaku Islands. Sovereignty over these islands is disputed by Japan, China, and Taiwan. The new ADIZ also included a submerged rock that falls inside overlapping Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ...
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    19,22 €

  • The Evolution Of Los Zetas In Mexico And Central America
    George W. Grayson / George WGrayson / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College / U.SArmy War College
    Los Zetas, which appeared on the scene in the late-1990s, have raised the bar for cruelty among Mexican Mafiosi. Traditionally, the country’s narcotics cartels maximized earnings by working hand-in-glove with police, military officers, intelligence agencies, union leaders, and office holders affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which dominated the politi...
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  • The Future Of American Landpower
    John R. Deni / John RDeni / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College / U.SArmy War College
    The U.S. Army performs a number of critical missions across the vast Indo-Asia-Pacific region. These include underwriting deterrence, building coalition capability, strengthening institutional capacity among partner defense establishments, maintaining interoperability, promoting military professionalism, building operational access, and conducting humanitarian assistance missio...
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    19,55 €

  • The Resurgence Of Al-Qaeda In Syria And Iraq
    Azeem Ibrahim / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College / U.SArmy War College
    By 2010, it was possible to see al-Qaeda as an organization in decline. It had lost militarily in Iraq and seemed politically irrelevant to the popular revolts during the Arab Spring. However, the Syrian civil war has allowed it to rebuild and, in the form of the local Al Nusrah Front, use a revised political and military strategy. This important monograph considers if these ap...
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    19,23 €

  • Turkey-Kurdish Regional Government Relations After The U.S. Withdrawal From Iraq
    Bill Park / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College / U.SArmy War College
    When U.S. forces departed Iraq at the end of 2011, they left behind unresolved problems relating to that country’s governance, notably concerning the relationship between the federal authority in Baghdad and the autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in the north. Today, disputes over the territorial delineation of the KRG remain a source of tension, while the discovery...
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  • Defense Planning for National Security
    Colin S. Gray / Strategic Studies Institute / U. S. Army War College Press
    The challenge that is defense planning includes: 'educated futurology' and the humanities as methodological approaches; futurists and scenarios, trend spotting and defense analysis; the impossibility of science in studying the future; the impossibility of verification by empirical testing of hypotheses; the value of the humanities which are politics, strategy, and history for d...
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    12,52 €

  • The B-29 Airplane Commander Training Manual for the Superfortress
    U.S. Army Air Force / U.SArmy Air Force
    The Boeing B-29 was one of the most sophisticated aircraft of WWII. It featured many innovations including guns that could be fired by remote control and pressurized crew compartments. It was also the heaviest production plane of the war, with terrific range and bomb-carrying capabilities. Carrying a crew of ten, the Superfortress devastated Japan in a series of raids in 1944-4...
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    31,15 €

  • Senior Officer Talent Management
    David S. Lyle / Michael J. Colarusso / U. S. Army Strategic Studies Inst
    The Army has for years been successful at creating senior leaders adept in the art and science of land combat after honing their leadership at the direct and organizational levels. While those experiences remain invaluable, undue reliance upon them to create the Army's future institutional leaders is increasingly risky in today's rapidly changing world. The contemporary and fut...
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  • Closing The Candor Chasm
    Paul Paolozzi / Strategic Studies Institute / U. S. Army War College / U.S. Army War College / USArmy War College
    Candor stands as the keystone element in creating the foundation of trust in the Army, yet the topic is muted. Stewards of the Army Profession build trust through authentic communication-in education, training, and modeled in application. Candor was previously included in Army Doctrine, yet nearly no mention of it currently exists in professional military education and dialogue...
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  • An Assessment of The Department of Defense Strategy for Operating In Cyberspace
    Strategic Studies Institute / Thomas M. Chen / Thomas MChen / U. S. Army War College / U.S. Army War College / USArmy War College
    In July 2011, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) issued the DoD Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace, which outlines five strategic initiatives: 1) Treat cyberspace as another operational domain; 2) Employ new defense operating concepts to pro¬tect DoD networks; 3) Partner with other U.S. government agencies and the private sector; 4) Build relationships with U.S. allies and ...
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  • U.S. Army War College Key Strategic Issues List - Part I
    Strategic Studies Institute / U. S. Army War College / U.S. Army War College / USArmy War College
    For over a decade, SSI has published the annual Key Strategic Issues List (KSIL) to inform students, faculty, and external research associates of strategic topics requiring research and analysis. Part I of the Academic Year (AY) 2013-14 KSIL, referred to as the Army Priorities for Strategic Analysis (APSA), has been developed by Headquarters Department of the Army (HQDA) and SS...
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    18,83 €

  • State Collapse, Insurgency, and Counterinsurgency
    J. Peter Pham / JPeter Pham / Strategic Studies Institute / U. S. Army War College / U.S. Army War College / USArmy War College
    For more than 2 decades, Somalia has been the prime example of a collapsed state, resisting multiple attempts to reconstitute a central government, with the current internationally-backed regime of the 'Federal Republic of Somalia' struggling just to maintain its hold on the capital and the southeastern littoral-thanks only to the presence of a more than 17,000-strong African U...
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    21,52 €

  • The Causes of Instability in Nigeria and Implications for The United States (Enlarged Edition)
    Clarence J. Bouchat / Clarence JBouchat / Strategic Studies Institute / U. S. Army War College / U.S. Army War College / USArmy War College
    Understanding the political economy of Nigeria is needed to reveal the root causes of its many ethnic, religious, economic, and political problems and address them for the long term. The pressures now weighing on Nigeria could literally fracture the state along deep fault lines if rampant corruption and partisanship continues. As mutually important partners for both of our inte...
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  • The Effectiveness of Drone Strikes in Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism Campaigns (Enlarged Edition)
    James Igoe Walsh / Strategic Studies Institute / U. S. Army War College / U.S. Army War College / USArmy War College
    The United States increasingly relies on unmanned aerial vehicles to target insurgent and terrorist groups around the world. This monograph analyzes the available research and evidence that assesses the political and military consequences of drone strikes. It is not clear if drone strikes have degraded their targets, or that they kill enough civilians to create sizable public b...
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    20,65 €

  • The Real 'Long War'
    Geoffrey Till / Strategic Studies Institute / U. S. Army War College / U.S. Army War College / USArmy War College
    The 21st century has seen the growth of a number of nontraditional threats to the international stability on which trade, and thus U.S. peace and security, depends, and for the moment at least a reduced likelihood of continental scale warfighting operations, and something of a de-emphasis on major involvement in counterinsurgency operations. These nontraditional threats are, ho...
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  • The Security Concerns of The Baltic States as NATO Allies (Enlarged Edition)
    James S. Corum / James SCorum / Strategic Studies Institute / U. S. Army War College / U.S. Army War College / USArmy War College
    If the United States is likely to fight in a coalition with small allies in the future, then it is useful to understand the experience, capabilities, and perspectives of those allies. Since regaining independence in 1991, the countries of Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania have been very active in supporting NATO and U.S. military operations abroad. It is notable that the three Bal...
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