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Criminal Sovereignty: Understanding North Korea's Illicit International Activities, Paul Rexton Kan Dr., Bruce E. Bechtol Dr., Robert M. Collins Mr.
Criminal Sovereignty: Understanding North Korea's Illicit International Activities, Paul Rexton Kan Dr., Bruce E. Bechtol Dr., Robert M. Collins Mr.
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This monograph examines Office Number 39’s origins, organizational structure, and activities in order to develop a more calibrated strategy and policy to meet the North Korean challenge. This monograph focuses on Office Number 39's key illicit activities— to include manufacture and distribution of illegal drugs, the counterfeiting of U.S. currency, and the manufacture and distribution of counterfeit cigarettes. Finally, as Kim Jong-Il grows frailer, assessing how his successor may continue or alter Office Number 39’s activities is also examined.
Towards A U.S. Army Officer Corps Strategy For Success: Developing Talent, Casey Wardynski Colonel, David S. Lyle Colonel, Michael J. Colarusso Dr.
Towards A U.S. Army Officer Corps Strategy For Success: Developing Talent, Casey Wardynski Colonel, David S. Lyle Colonel, Michael J. Colarusso Dr.
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Developing leaders through experience, formal training, and education is a long-standing hallmark of the U.S. Army. Maintaining its excellence as a developmental organization requires vigilance, however. Authorized strength and inventory mismatches, an inverse relationship between responsibility and formal developmental time, and sparse nonoperational development opportunities are serious challenges the Army must address. Doing so requires a talent development strategy firmly rooted in human capital theory. Such a strategy will recognize the value of continuing higher education, genuinely useful evaluations, and the signals associated with professional credentials.
Transnational Insurgencies And The Escalation Of Regional Conflict: Lessons For Iraq And Afghanistan, Idean Salehyan Dr
Transnational Insurgencies And The Escalation Of Regional Conflict: Lessons For Iraq And Afghanistan, Idean Salehyan Dr
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Many insurgents groups benefit from sanctuaries in neighboring countries where they are relatively safe from state security forces. These transnational insurgencies complicate traditional counterinsurgency operations in significant ways. Most importantly, transnational insurgencies have the potential to spark conflicts between neighboring countries. This monograph examines several transnational insurgencies that have been active since the end of the Cold War. While many neighboring countries have experienced the escalation of conflict between them as the result of cross-border violence, other states have successfully cooperated in providing border security. In depth case studies of relations between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo as …
Do Oil Exports Fuel Defense Spending?, Clayton K. S. Chun Dr.
Do Oil Exports Fuel Defense Spending?, Clayton K. S. Chun Dr.
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This monograph explores the impact that oil revenue had on the national defense spending of five oil-exporting countries. Despite periods of falling oil revenues, these countries typically did not lower defense spending. In some cases, defense spending increased sharply, or the rate of decrease was much lower than the drop in oil revenues. This condition creates challenges for national security professionals. If nations face falling oil revenues and still have the will and ability to expand their military or security capabilities, then they might do so through the sacrifice of domestic spending or regional stability. Economic sanctions, worldwide recession, or …
Decisionmaking In Operation Iraqi Freedom: Removing Saddam Hussein By Force, Steven Metz Dr., John R. Martin Professor
Decisionmaking In Operation Iraqi Freedom: Removing Saddam Hussein By Force, Steven Metz Dr., John R. Martin Professor
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In 1946, General Walter Bedell Smith wrote a series of articles describing six great decisions made in World War II by General Dwight David Eisenhower Writing so soon after the war, General Smith could not hope to produce a definitive history, but felt that writing then would document an important viewpoint of one of the major participants in Eisenhower’s many significant decisions. With this initial volume of their Operation IRAQI FREEDOM Key Decisions Monograph Series, the Strategic Studies Institute also attempts to write about key decisions while they are still fresh in the memories of the participants. This series will …
Security And Stability In Africa: A Development Approach, Clarence J. Bouchat (Usaf, Ret.) Lieutenant Colonel
Security And Stability In Africa: A Development Approach, Clarence J. Bouchat (Usaf, Ret.) Lieutenant Colonel
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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 fundamental issues of economic development and political governance through which enduring stability and security might be obtained. This paper offers solutions in terms of improving African stability and security and a framework of several key issues which should give policymakers the knowledge they …
The Army Officers' Professional Ethic--Past, Present, And Future, Matthew Moten Colonel
The Army Officers' Professional Ethic--Past, Present, And Future, Matthew Moten Colonel
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Colonel Matthew Moten of the West Point History Department has asked why so many other professions have clear statements of professional responsibility, but the Army officer corps does not. This essay briefly surveys the history of the Army’s professional ethic, focusing primarily on the officer corps. It assesses today’s strategic, professional, and ethical environment. Then it argues that a clear statement of the Army officers’ professional ethic is especially necessary in a time when the Army is stretched and stressed as an institution. The Army officer corps has both a need and an opportunity to better define itself as a …
The Effects Of Multiple Deployments On Army Adolescents, Leonard Wong Dr., Stephen J. Gerras Dr.
The Effects Of Multiple Deployments On Army Adolescents, Leonard Wong Dr., Stephen J. Gerras Dr.
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Multiple deployments have become a way of life for our Soldiers. In Army families, these frequent deployments increase the burden on children who must face the stress and strain of separation and anxiety. The authors take a much-needed, detailed look at the effects of multiple deployments on Army adolescents. The results of this study reinforce some of what we already know concerning deployments and children, but they also reveal some very interesting, counterintuitive findings that challenge the conventional wisdom concerning Army adolescents. This study goes beyond merely explaining the impact 8 years of war is having on the children of …
India's Strategic Defense Transformation: Expanding Global Relationships, Brian K. Hedrick Lieutenant Colonel
India's Strategic Defense Transformation: Expanding Global Relationships, Brian K. Hedrick Lieutenant Colonel
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India’s transformation to modernize its military, obtain “strategic partnerships” with the United States and other nations, and expand its influence in the Indian Ocean and beyond includes a shift from an emphasis on the former Soviet Union as the primary supplier of defense articles to a western base of supply and an increasing emphasis on bilateral exercises and training with many of the global powers. The author explores the nature of this transformation, offers insights into the history of Indian defense relations, and suggests implications to U.S. foreign and defense policy. Much has been written regarding India’s relations with its …
Schools For Strategy: Teaching Strategy For 21st Century Conflict, Colin S. Gray Dr.
Schools For Strategy: Teaching Strategy For 21st Century Conflict, Colin S. Gray Dr.
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All would-be strategists would benefit by some formal education. However, for education in strategy to be well-directed, it needs to rest upon sound assumptions concerning the eternal nature yet ever shifting character, meaning, and function of strategy, as well as the range of behaviors required for effective strategic performance. The author emphasizes the necessity for strategic education to help develop the strategic approach, the way of thinking that can solve or illuminate strategic problems. He advises that such education should not strive for a spurious relevance by presenting a military variant of current affairs. The author believes that the strategist …
Youtube War: Fighting In A World Of Cameras In Every Cell Phone And Photoshop On Every Computer, Cori E. Dauber Dr.
Youtube War: Fighting In A World Of Cameras In Every Cell Phone And Photoshop On Every Computer, Cori E. Dauber Dr.
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Terrorist attacks today are often media events in a second sense: information and communication technologies have developed to such a point that these groups can film, edit, and upload their own attacks within minutes of staging them, whether the Western media are present or not. In this radically new information environment, the enemy no longer depends on traditional media. This is the “YouTube War.” This monograph methodically lays out the nature of this new environment in terms of its implications for a war against media-savvy insurgents, and then considers possible courses of action for the Army and the U.S. military …
The Army's Professional Military Ethic In An Era Of Persistent Conflict, Paul Oh Major, Don M. Snider Dr., Kevin Toner Major
The Army's Professional Military Ethic In An Era Of Persistent Conflict, Paul Oh Major, Don M. Snider Dr., Kevin Toner Major
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As the character of conflict in the 21st century evolves, the Army’s strength will continue to rest on our values, our ethos, and our people. Our Soldiers and leaders must remain true to these values as they operate in increasingly complex environments where moral-ethical failures can have strategic implications. Most of our Soldiers do the right thing--and do it well--time and again under intense pressure. But we must stay ever vigilant in upholding our high professional standards, mindful of the strains that accompany repeated combat deployments in the longest war our country has fought with an all-volunteer force. We must …
Dealing With Political Ferment In Latin America: The Populist Revival, The Emergence Of The Center, And Implications For U.S. Policy, Hal Brands Dr.
Dealing With Political Ferment In Latin America: The Populist Revival, The Emergence Of The Center, And Implications For U.S. Policy, Hal Brands Dr.
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The current political dynamics in Latin America is analyzed, and their meaning for the United States is evaluated. The author argues that references to a uniform “left turn” in the region are misleading, and that Latin America is actually witnessing a dynamic competition between two very different forms of governance. Represented by leaders like Hugo Chávez, Evo Morales, and others, radical populism emphasizes the politics of grievance and a penchant for extreme solutions. Moderate, centrist governance can be found in countries like Chile, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, and Uruguay. It stresses diplomatic pragmatism, the protection of democratic practices, and the need …
Alien: How Operational Art Devoured Strategy, Justin Kelly Brigadier, Michael James Brennan Dr.
Alien: How Operational Art Devoured Strategy, Justin Kelly Brigadier, Michael James Brennan Dr.
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The publication of the 1982 version of Army Field Manual (FM) 100-5, Operations, introduced to the English-speaking world the idea of an operational level of war encompassing the planning and conduct of campaigns and major operations. It was followed 3 years later by the introduction of the term “operational art” which was, in practice, the skillful management of the operational level of war. This conception of an identifiably separate level of war that defined the jurisdiction of the profession of arms was, for a number of historical and cultural reasons, attractive to U.S. practitioners and plausible to its English-speaking allies. …
Iraq: Strategic Reconciliation, Targeting, And Key Leader Engagement, Jeanne F. Hull Captain
Iraq: Strategic Reconciliation, Targeting, And Key Leader Engagement, Jeanne F. Hull Captain
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Discussion of Key Leader Engagements (KLE) as a nonlethal option for countering insurgent organizations. Outreach to insurgent organizations through KLE can be both an economy of force measure and, in some circumstances, could be more effective than engaging insurgent organizations with lethal force. The challenge with insurgent outreach to KLE, though, is that it must be tied to a legitimate host-nation government effort towards reconciliation or, at a minimum, accommodation with the insurgent organizations in question. Through the lens of the Multi-National Forces-Iraq Force Strategic Engagement Cell (FSEC), the author illustrates how KLEs can be incorporated as targets in the …
A Comprehensive Approach To Improving U.S. Security Force Assistance Efforts, Theresa Baginski Lieutenant Colonel, Francis Donovan Lieutenant Colonel, Richard A. Lacquement Colonel, Simon Don Roach Brigadier
A Comprehensive Approach To Improving U.S. Security Force Assistance Efforts, Theresa Baginski Lieutenant Colonel, Francis Donovan Lieutenant Colonel, Richard A. Lacquement Colonel, Simon Don Roach Brigadier
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Security Force Assistance is analyzed, and some specific recommendations designed to improve U.S. performance are provided. While SFA may be a new term, the activities themselves are familiar ones related to how the Department of Defense works to train, advise, and assist foreign partners' security establishments to accomplish common objectives. The United States has demonstrated serious SFA deficiencies in recent years. As Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has noted, the United States is likely to remain actively and broadly engaged in SFA for many years to come. The need for comprehensive improvement encompasses DoD military and civilian efforts and requires …
A "New" Dynamic In The Western Hemisphere Security Environment: The Mexican Zetas And Other Private Armies, Max G. Manwaring Dr.
A "New" Dynamic In The Western Hemisphere Security Environment: The Mexican Zetas And Other Private Armies, Max G. Manwaring Dr.
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This monograph is intended to help political, military, policy, opinion, and academic leaders think strategically about explanations, consequences, and responses that might apply to the volatile and dangerous new dynamic that has inserted itself into the already crowded Mexican and hemispheric security arena, that is, the privatized Zeta military organization. In Mexico, this new dynamic involves the migration of traditional hard-power national security and sovereignty threats from traditional state and nonstate adversaries to hard and soft power threats from professional private nonstate military organizations. This dynamic also involves a more powerful and ambiguous mix of terrorism, crime, and conventional war …
Escalation And Intrawar Deterrence During Limited Wars In The Middle East, W. Andrew Terrill Dr.
Escalation And Intrawar Deterrence During Limited Wars In The Middle East, W. Andrew Terrill Dr.
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A central purpose of this monograph is to reexamine two earlier conflicts for insights that may be relevant for ongoing dangers during limited wars involving nations possessing chemical or biological weapons or emerging nuclear arsenals. These conflicts are the 1973 Arab-Israeli War and the 1991 Gulf War. Both of these wars were fought at the conventional level, although the prospect of Israel using nuclear weapons (1973), Egypt using biological weapons (1973), or Iraq using chemical and biological weapons (1991) were of serious concern at various points during the fighting. This monograph will consider why efforts at escalation control and intrawar …
Criminals, Militias, And Insurgents: Organized Crime In Iraq, Phil Williams Dr.
Criminals, Militias, And Insurgents: Organized Crime In Iraq, Phil Williams Dr.
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Dr. Williams looks in detail at major criminal activities, including the theft, diversion, and smuggling of oil, the kidnapping of both Iraqis and foreigners, extortion, car theft, and the theft and smuggling of antiquities. He also considers the critical role played by corruption in facilitating and strengthening organized crime and shows how al-Qaeda in Iraq, Jaish-al-Mahdi, and the Sunni tribes used criminal activities to fund their campaigns of political violence. Dr. Williams identifies the roots of organized crime in post-Ba’athist Iraq in an authoritarian and corrupt state dominated by Saddam Hussein and subject to international sanctions. He also explains the …
New Partnerships For A New Era: Enhancing The South African Army's Stabilization Role In Africa, Deane-Peter Baker Professor
New Partnerships For A New Era: Enhancing The South African Army's Stabilization Role In Africa, Deane-Peter Baker Professor
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Since emerging from the mire of its apartheid past, South Africa has become a key player in Sub-Saharan Africa. The challenge of creating a truly national military, during a period in which South Africa has also wrestled with tough internal socio-economic problems, has left the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) in a weakened state. Despite this, they have in recent years made a considerable contribution to efforts to bring peace and stability to the African continent. A critical step in building a capable and confident future South African Army has been the commencement of the SA Army’s Vision 2020 …
State And Nonstate Associated Gangs: Credible "Midwives Of New Social Orders", Max G. Manwaring Dr.
State And Nonstate Associated Gangs: Credible "Midwives Of New Social Orders", Max G. Manwaring Dr.
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The monograph examines contemporary populism and neopopulism, 21st century socialism, and a nonstate actor (al-Qaeda) seeking regional and global hegemony. They are: first, paramilitary gang permutations in Colombia that are contributing significantly to the erosion of the Colombian state and its democratic institutions, and implementing the anti-system objectives of their elite neo-populist sponsors; second, Hugo Chavez’s use of the New Socialism and popular militias to facilitate his populist Bolivarian dream of creating a mega-state in Latin America; and, third, al-Qaeda’s strategic and hegemonic use of political-criminal gangs to coerce substantive change in Spanish and other Western European foreign and defense …
Provincial Reconstruction Teams: How Do We Know They Work?, Carter Malkasian Dr., Gerald Meyerle Dr.
Provincial Reconstruction Teams: How Do We Know They Work?, Carter Malkasian Dr., Gerald Meyerle Dr.
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Over the past 6 years, provincial reconstruction teams (PRTs) have played a growing role in the U.S. counterinsurgency effort in Afghanistan. PRTs are one of several organizations working on reconstruction there, along with civilian development agencies, including the U.S. Agency for International Development, numerous nongovernmental organizations, and the Afghan government’s National Solidarity Program. Perhaps unsurprisingly, something of a debate has emerged over whether PRTs are needed. The authors argue that civilian reconstruction agencies cannot do the same job as the PRTs. While these agencies remain essential for long-term economic and political development, the PRTs conduct reconstruction in ways that help …
Kazakhstan's Defense Policy: An Assessment Of The Trends, Roger N. Mcdermott Mr.
Kazakhstan's Defense Policy: An Assessment Of The Trends, Roger N. Mcdermott Mr.
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Kazakhstan’s foreign policy, since its independence, has successfully avoided favoring any one country based on what Astana styles as a “multi-vectored” approach to foreign policy. Yet, in terms of its conduct of defense and security policies, this paradigm simply does not fit with how the regime makes policy in its most sensitive areas of security cooperation. Indeed, its closest defense ties are still with Russia, which have deepened and intensified at a bilateral level, as well as through multilateral initiatives in the context of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Washington’s military assistance programs …
Building Partner Capacity/Security Force Assistance: A New Structural Paradigm, Scott G. Wuestner Colonel
Building Partner Capacity/Security Force Assistance: A New Structural Paradigm, Scott G. Wuestner Colonel
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The Civil Response Corps (CRC) would function much like our military reserve. It would ease the burden on the Armed Forces by allowing the hiring of civilians with critical skills to serve on missions abroad when America needs them. The CRC is a product of the efforts of State Department’s Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (S/CRS). The core mission of S/CRS is to lead, coordinate, and institutionalize U.S. Government civilian capacity to prevent or prepare for post-conflict situations, and to help stabilize and reconstruct societies in transition from conflict or civil strife, so they can reach a sustainable path toward …
Japan's Decision For War In 1941: Some Enduring Lessons, Jeffrey Record Dr.
Japan's Decision For War In 1941: Some Enduring Lessons, Jeffrey Record Dr.
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The author takes a fresh look at Japan’s decision for war in 1941, and concludes that it was dictated by Japanese pride and the threatened economic destruction of Japan by the United States. He believes that Japanese aggression in East Asia was the root cause of the Pacific War, but argues that the road to war in 1941 was built on American as well as Japanese miscalculations and that both sides suffered from cultural ignorance and racial arrogance. He finds that the Americans underestimated the role of fear and honor in Japanese calculations and overestimated the effectiveness of economic sanctions …
Russia, China, And The United States In Central Asia: Prospects For Great Power Competition And Cooperation In The Shadow Of The Georgian Crisis, Elizabeth Wishnick Dr.
Russia, China, And The United States In Central Asia: Prospects For Great Power Competition And Cooperation In The Shadow Of The Georgian Crisis, Elizabeth Wishnick Dr.
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Russia and China have been reacting to the pressures of changing U.S.-Central Asia policy over the past 5 years as has the United States. In response to the “color” revolutions, they achieved broad agreement on the priority of regime security and the need to limit the long-term military presence of the United States in Central Asia. These are also two key areas—defining the political path of Central Asian states and securing a strategic foothold in the region—where the United States finds itself in competition with Russia and China. The Russia-China partnership should not be seen as an anti-U.S. bloc, nor …
After Iraq: The Search For A Sustainable National Security Strategy, Colin S. Gray Dr.
After Iraq: The Search For A Sustainable National Security Strategy, Colin S. Gray Dr.
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A sustainable national security strategy is feasible only when directed by a sustainable national security policy. In the absence of policy guidance, strategy will be meaningless. The only policy that meets both the mandates of American culture and the challenges of the outside world is one that seeks to lead the necessary mission of guarding and advancing world order. The author considers and rejects a policy that would encourage the emergence of a multipolar structure to global politics. He argues that multipolarity not only would fail to maintain order, it would also promote conflict among the inevitably rival great powers. …
Affairs Of State: The Interagency And National Security, Gabriel Marcella Dr.
Affairs Of State: The Interagency And National Security, Gabriel Marcella Dr.
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The United States has a large and complex interagency process to deal with national security on a global basis. It is imperative that civilian and military professionals understand that process. The chapters in this volume deal with various dimensions and institutions, from the National Security Council, the Department of State, and other agencies. It also contains case studies of interagency coordination and integration.
War Without Borders: The Colombia-Ecuador Crisis Of 2008, Gabriel Marcella Dr.
War Without Borders: The Colombia-Ecuador Crisis Of 2008, Gabriel Marcella Dr.
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Unprotected borders are a serious threat to the security of a number of states around the globe. Indeed, the combination of weak states, ungoverned space, terrorism, and international criminal networks make a mockery of the Westphalian system of international order. Latin American countries are experiencing all of these maladies in varying degrees. The Andean region is under assault by a different kind of war that defies borders. In this context, Dr. Gabriel Marcella analyzes the lessons to be learned from the Colombian attack against the clandestine camp of the the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, which was located at an …
Regional Spillover Effects Of The Iraq War, W. Andrew Terrill Dr.
Regional Spillover Effects Of The Iraq War, W. Andrew Terrill Dr.
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The Iraq war has been one of the dominant factors influencing U.S. strategic thinking in the Middle East and globally since 2003. Yet the problems of this highly dynamic and fluid war have sometimes forced U.S. policymakers to address near-term issues that cannot be safely postponed at the expense of long-term strategic thought. Such a technique, while understandable, cannot continue indefinitely as an approach to policy. Long-term planning remains vital for advancing regionwide U.S. and Iraqi interests following a U.S. drawdown from Iraq. Such planning must include dealing with current and potential “spillover” from the Iraq war.
Regional spillover problems …