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  • Security and Stability in Africa
    Clarence J. Bouchat / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College
    The security and stability of Africa has recently become an important national issue readily seen in the increased time, effort, and resources now devoted to the continent by such new organizations as the U.S. Africa Command (USAFRICOM). This paper seeks to overcome centuries of ignorance and misunderstanding about the conditions and people of Africa by discussing the fundament...
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    27,32 €

  • Preparing for One War and Getting Another? (Enlarged Edition)
    Antulio J. Echevarria II / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College
    This monograph examines the fundamental argument that America’s adversaries are shifting more toward irregular methods due to the demonstrated prowess of the U.S. military at conventional warfare. This argument is based on a what one might call a paradoxical logic, not unlike that described by Edward Luttwak in his classic work, Strategy. Among other things, the monograph conc...
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    18,06 €

  • Russia’s Prospects in Asia (Enlarged Edition)
    Stephen J. Blank / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College
    These three chapters originated in an SSI conference in January 2010 and go to the heart of a question of vital significance for both Asia and Russia, namely what are Russia’s prospects in Asia. The three chapters outline the challenges Russia faces in Asia, the nature of the dynamic and complex Asian security environment, and the extent to which Russia is or is not meeting th...
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    23,50 €

  • The United States and China in Power Transition (Enlarged Edition)
    David Lai / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College
    The most profound change the United States and China have experienced in their relations in the past 30 years is perhaps the onset of an apparent power transition between the two nations. This potentially titanic change was set in motion as a result of China’s genuine and phenomenal economic development, and its impact on the United States and the U.S.-led international system ...
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    31,76 €

  • The Strategic Logic of the Contemporary Security Dilemma
    Max G. Manwaring / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College
    From the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 to the end of World War II and beyond the Cold War period, the prevailing assumption was that interstate warfare would continue to be the dominant threat to global peace and prosperity. Today’s wars, by contrast, are intrastate conflicts that take place mainly within-not across-national borders. As a consequence, the disease of intrastate co...
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    18,81 €

  • Understanding the North Korea Problem
    Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College / William Boik
    This monograph provides a timely analysis and thoughtful insights into the challenges faced by the United States in developing a strategy for North Korea. The author examines the complex history of U.S. policy towards North Korea over the last decade that has left us in a position of having virtually no influence over the country. He addresses the complicated regional concerns ...
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    20,76 €

  • Puncturing the Counterinsurgency Myth
    Andrew Mumford / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College
    This monograph holds that an aura of mythology has surrounded conventional academic and military perceptions of British performance in the realm of irregular warfare. It identifies 10 myths regarding British counterinsurgency performance and seeks to puncture them by critically assessing the efficacy of the British way of counterinsurgency from the much-vaunted, yet over-hyped,...
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    18,75 €

  • Real Leadership and the U.S. Army
    John B. Richardson IV / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College
    This monograph leads with a case study which provides a means for analyzing the complexity of organizational leadership in the contemporary security environment. The study presents a high stakes problem-set requiring an operational adaptation by a cavalry squadron in Baghdad. This problematic reality triggers the struggle in finding a creative solution, as cultural norms serve ...
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    26,07 €

  • The Saudi-Iranian Rivalry and the Future of Middle East Security (Enlarged Edition)
    Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College / W. Andrew Terrill
    The Middle East is undergoing an era of revolutionary change that is challenging the foreign policies of the United States and virtually all regional states. In this new environment, opportunities and challenges exist for a number of regional and extra-regional states to advance their national interests, while attempting to marginalize those of their rivals. Despite these chang...
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    14,34 €

  • The New Aztecs
    Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College / Zhivan Alach
    The Western way of war has come full circle. After centuries of evolution towards increased totality and brutality, it has turned back once again to the ritualistic and restrained methods of primitive warfare. Largely, this has been due to an interaction between the perceived lack of utility in contemporary warfare, developing humanitarian public opinion, and increasing profess...
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    20,73 €

  • Resolving Insurgencies (Enlarged Edition)
    Strategic Studies Institute / Thomas R. Mockaitis / U.S. Army War College
    Understanding how insurgencies may be brought to a successful conclusion is vital to military strategists and policymakers.This study examines how past insurgencies have ended and how current ones may be resolved. Four ways in which insurgencies have ended are identified. Clear-cut victories for either the government or the insurgents occurred during the era of decolonization, ...
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    23,41 €

  • Rebuilding Armed Forces
    Florence Gaub / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College
    Security Force Assistance becomes more and more important not only in the post-conflict reconstruction process, but also in a more general way in the foreign policy of the United States. Looking into the experience of both Iraq and Lebanon, this monograph offers useful insights for future military assistance programs and reconstruction efforts. While current assistance programs...
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    18,00 €

  • Organizational Change in the Russian Airborne Forces
    Rod Thornton / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College
    This monograph considers the recent history of organizational change in the Russian airborne forces (VDV). In particular, it looks at how the VDV has changed since the end of Russia’s conflict with Georgia in 2008. The VDV, a force much admired in the Russian news media and society, has, in fact, escaped fairly unscathed during the comprehensive reform of the Russian army more ...
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    21,52 €

  • Presidential Succession Scenarios in Egypt and their Impact on U.S.-Egyptian Strategic Relations [Enlarged Edition]
    Gregory Aftandilian / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College
    Although this monograph was written before the pro-democracy demonstrations in Egypt in January 2011, it examines the important question as to who might succeed President Hosni Mubarak by analyzing several possible scenarios and what they would mean for U.S. strategic relations with Egypt. The monograph first describes the importance of Egypt in the Middle East region and gives...
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    18,93 €

  • Russia in the Arctic (Enlarged Edition)
    Stephen J. Blank / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College
    The Arctic has returned with a vengeance to be an area of international contention. Beginning in 2007, Russia has continued to make aggressive moves and claims regarding territory in the Arctic Ocean. These moves undoubtedly have been prompted by global climate change and the importance of energy, with which Russia believes the Arctic is lavishly supplied. These moves apparentl...
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    26,60 €

  • Russian Nuclear Weapons
    Stephen J. Blank / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College
    This book presents several essays analyzing Russia’s extensive nuclear agenda and the issue connected with it. It deals with strategy, doctrine, European, Eurasian, and East Asian security agendas, as well as the central U.S.-Russia nuclear and arms control equations. This work brings together American, European, and Russian analysts to discuss Russia’s defense and conventional...
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    56,46 €

  • The Afghanistan Question and the Reset in U.S.-Russian Relations (Enlarged Edition)
    Richard J. Krickus / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College
    The ability of the United States and Russia to cooperate in Afghanistan represents a solid test of their reset in relations. The author provides the historical background to the Afghanistan Question and assesses current events in the Afghan war with three objectives in mind: 1) To determine whether Russian-American cooperation in Afghanistan has been successful; 2) To identify ...
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    27,92 €

  • The Military’s Role in Counterterrorism
    Geraint Hughes / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College
    The author examines historical and contemporary examples of military involvement in counterterrorism, outlining the specific roles which the armed forces of liberal democracies have performed in combating terrorism, both in a domestic and international context. He describes the political, strategic, conceptual, diplomatic, and ethical problems that can arise when a state’s arme...
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    31,18 €

  • The North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union’s Common Security and Defense Policy
    Sarwar A. Kashmeri / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College
    NATO used to be the world’s most formidable military alliance. But its original reason for existence, the Soviet Union, disintegrated years ago, and its dreams of being a world cop are withering in the mountains of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the European Union’s (EU) Common Security & Defense Policy (CSDP) has deployed 27 successful military/civil missions from Africa to Asia in t...
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    10,67 €

  • Improvised Explosive Devices in Iraq, 2003-09
    Andrew Smith / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College
    Surprise is a familiar term in military writings and is enshrined in most nations’ doctrine. Surprises that emerge in tactics, however, can also operate at the strategic and operational levels and are particularly dangerous because they can test the relevance and adaptability of military forces and the ’institutional’ defense establishments that create, develop, and sustain the...
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    13,30 €

  • Natural Gas as an Instrument of Russian State Power [Enlarged Edition]
    Alexander Ghaleb / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College
    The slow re-emergence of Russia as a world power despite its weak military force is of critical significance for the strategic interests of the United States in Europe. Since the Cold War, Russia has been perceived as a broken nation that no longer represents a threat to the North Atlantic Alliance. This monograph emphasizes that Russia overcame this major vulnerability by deve...
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    27,35 €

  • Joint Strategic Planning System Insights
    Richard M. Meinhart / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College
    Military leaders at many levels have used strategic planning in various ways to position their organizations to respond to the demands of the current situation while simultaneously preparing to meet future challenges. This paper will first describe the Chairman’s statutory responsibilities and strategic challenges for this affects both a leader and strategic planning system’s f...
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    20,18 €

  • Asia-Pacific
    David Lai / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College
    This analysis has four objectives: first, it puts the key trends of Asia-Pacific’s geo-economic, political, and security affairs in perspective; second, it highlights the defining aspects in this region’s complicated interstate relations; third, it points out the dilemmas confronting the key players in the region; and fourth, it draws attention to the most dangerous potential i...
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    23,50 €

  • Return of The Balkans
    Janusz Bugajski / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College
    For the first time in its modern history the entire Balkan Peninsula has the opportunity to co-exist under one security and developmental umbrella combining NATO and the European Union (EU). Unfortunately, European and American leaders have been unable to complete such a unique historic vision, while the progress of several Western Balkan countries continues to be undermined by...
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    29,91 €

  • The Struggle for Yemen and the Challenge of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (Enlarged Edition)
    Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College / W. Andrew Terrill
    In recent years, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has been widely recognized as a more dangerous regional and international terrorist organization than the original al-Qaeda led by Osama bin Laden until his death in 2011. In 2010-11, AQAP was able to present a strong challenge to Yemen’s government by capturing and retaining large areas in the southern part of the count...
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    24,75 €

  • The Future of the Arab Gulf Monarchies in the Age of Uncertainties (Enlarged Edition)
    Mohammed El-Katiri / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College
    Seismic cultural and political shifts are under way in the Arab Gulf monarchies. The political upheavals and transitions that have swept through the Arab world over the last 2 years have not toppled the Arab Gulf rulers, but did not leave them untouched, either. Rulers of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states face heightened internal and external challenges and uncertainties. P...
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    18,00 €

  • Avoiding The Slippery Slope
    Strategic Studies Institute / Thomas R. Mockaitis / U.S. Army War College
    This Letort Paper covers U.S. military interventions in civil conflicts since the end of the Cold War. It defines intervention as the use of military force to achieve a specific objective (i.e., deliver humanitarian aid, support revolutionaries or insurgents, protect a threatened population, etc.) and focuses on the phase of the intervention in which kinetic operations occurred...
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    23,70 €

  • The North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Libya
    Florence Gaub / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College
    On March 17, 2011, a month after the beginning of the Libyan revolution, with up to dead 2,000 civilians, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) decided on backing a no-fly zone over Libya and authorized 'all necessary measures' to protect civilians. While France, Great Britain, and the United States took immediate military action using air and missile strikes, consideratio...
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    18,00 €

  • China-Latin America Military Engagement
    R. Evan Ellis / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College
    The reemergence of China on the global stage is arguably one of the most important phenomena of our time. With its sustained high rates of economic growth, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has dramatically increased trade and investment flows with the rest of the world, including regions such as Latin America, with which it historically has had very little interaction. In m...
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    20,69 €

  • Finding the Balance
    Peacekeeping an... Operations Institute / Peacekeeping and S Operations Institute / U.S. Army War College / William Flavin
    This monograph examines the U.S. Military’s struggle to find the correct balance between conventional and counterinsurgency/stability approaches. The author uses history to remind us that at the end of wars, Armies often 'throw the baby out with the bathwater' and revert to a default position for organization and doctrine instead of inculcating those lessons learned in the rece...
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    20,19 €


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