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Faculty Senate Newsletter, March 2011, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College Mar 2011

Faculty Senate Newsletter, March 2011, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Message from President: Few would doubt that LSU and Louisiana higher education have made enormous progress over the last thirty-odd years. The notion that history progresses and that institutions advance has been out-of-fashion for aeons, yet it does seem that the onetime Old War Skule and its cohort campuses are doing a lot more in a much better way than they did at their inceptions. Sustaining the linear if not altogether teleological progress of Louisiana higher education, however, is the boom-and-bust cycle of the Louisiana economy, a cycle driven by the price of and demand for natural resources and related …


The Regularity Of Irregular Warfare, W. Alexander Vacca, Mark Davidson Mar 2011

The Regularity Of Irregular Warfare, W. Alexander Vacca, Mark Davidson

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


Tackling Threat Finance: A Labor For Hercules Or Sisyphus?, Keving D. Stringer Mar 2011

Tackling Threat Finance: A Labor For Hercules Or Sisyphus?, Keving D. Stringer

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


164th Infantry News: March 2011, 164th Infantry Association Mar 2011

164th Infantry News: March 2011, 164th Infantry Association

164th Infantry Regiment Publications

March 2011 edition of the 164th Infantry News. A total of 56 pages, containing news articles, event notices, photographs, and personal memories from the veterans of the 164th Infantry Regiment.


Neil Barofsky's Sig Tarp: Difficult, Rigorous, And Independent Oversight Of The Tarp, Samuel R. Diamant Mar 2011

Neil Barofsky's Sig Tarp: Difficult, Rigorous, And Independent Oversight Of The Tarp, Samuel R. Diamant

North Carolina Banking Institute

No abstract provided.


Analysis Of Heat Effects On Marine Corps Am2 Mat Mechanical Properties, V. Vega, U. N. Huynh, J. Holmes, J. Dechellis, P. Stoyanov, D. Piatkowski, E. W. Lee, J. Ogren, N. Drusina, Omar S. Es-Said Mar 2011

Analysis Of Heat Effects On Marine Corps Am2 Mat Mechanical Properties, V. Vega, U. N. Huynh, J. Holmes, J. Dechellis, P. Stoyanov, D. Piatkowski, E. W. Lee, J. Ogren, N. Drusina, Omar S. Es-Said

Mechanical Engineering Faculty Works

Navy AM2 mats are used as portable aircraft landing platforms for the Short Take-off/Vertical Landing (STOVL) aircraft operations. This investigation presents the study performed to determine whether the surface discoloration is a precursor to degradation in the mechanical property of the AM2 mat material. The red discoloration on the mat surfaces had a clear correlation with the decrease in yield strength, ultimate strength, and hardness properties.


‘Giving Memory A Future’: Confronting The Legacy Of Mass Rape In Post-Conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina, Teodora Todorova Mar 2011

‘Giving Memory A Future’: Confronting The Legacy Of Mass Rape In Post-Conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina, Teodora Todorova

Journal of International Women's Studies

Responses to the prevalence of wartime rape in Bosnia-Herzegovina during the 1990s civil war has been characterised by a conflicting paradox between the international legal attempts by the ICTY to prosecute perpetrators, and Bosnian society’s silence, marginalisation of individual victims, and the pronounced desire to “forget” about certain aspects of wartime victimisation. Given that the contemporary prospects of retributive justice and inter-ethnic reconciliation in Bosnia-Herzegovina remain a distant prospect, the question of what can be done to reassert the ethical value of the victims of mass rape and violence continues to be of great importance. Minow’s response to this question …


Engaging Ancient Islamic Traditions In The Poetry Of Saleha Ghabesh, Saddik M. Gohar Mar 2011

Engaging Ancient Islamic Traditions In The Poetry Of Saleha Ghabesh, Saddik M. Gohar

Journal of International Women's Studies

This paper explores the integration of ancient Islamic heritage in Emirati literature, particularly the history of the rise and fall of the Muslim Empire in Andalusia, in an attempt to confront regional challenges and international transformations in the current era. Navigating the intersection between heritage and identity, the Emirati poet, Saleha Ghabesh, attempts to incorporate the ancient Islamic heritage in Andalusia as a dynamics of liberation in order to articulate domestic issues integral to the geopolitics of the United Arab Emirates and the Arab region in the age of globalization. Transforming the mythic history of Andalusia into a narrative of …


Cover & Front Matter Mar 2011

Cover & Front Matter

Journal of Strategic Security

No abstract provided.


The Financial Arm Of The Farc: A Threat Finance Perspective, Thomas R. Cook Mar 2011

The Financial Arm Of The Farc: A Threat Finance Perspective, Thomas R. Cook

Journal of Strategic Security

The FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia or Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) transformed from a traditional guerrilla group into a full-fledged insurgency because of its ability to effectively convert the proceeds derived from illegal narcotic trafficking into operational funds. Those financial capabilities allowed the FARC to challenge government authority in large swathes of the Colombian state. The FARC moved into the drug trade, initially controlling production territory and subsequently engaging in trafficking, which allowed the organization to increase its war-fighting capabilities. This paper only scratches the surface of the mechanism by which the FARC utilized its coca revenue in …


The Nuclear (And The) Holocaust: Israel, Iran, And The Shadows Of Auschwitz, Shmuel Nili Mar 2011

The Nuclear (And The) Holocaust: Israel, Iran, And The Shadows Of Auschwitz, Shmuel Nili

Journal of Strategic Security

The main thesis of this article is that the Holocaust is indispensable for understanding Israel’s treatment of what it perceives as the greatest current threat to its security - the Iranian nuclear program. The Holocaust’s impact deviates in crucial ways from established teaching regarding balance of power in general and nuclear deterrence in particular. Mutually Assured Destruction, the distinction between capabilities and intentions, and even linkage politics - all of those basic concepts are profoundly altered in the Israeli case by the (often conscious) presence of the Holocaust. The Holocaust’s influence is evident in the Israeli belief that deterring Iran …


Book Reviews Mar 2011

Book Reviews

Journal of Strategic Security

No abstract provided.


Book Reviews, Parameters Editors Mar 2011

Book Reviews, Parameters Editors

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


Asymmetric Strategies As Strategies Of The Strong, Michael Breen, Joshua A. Geltzer Mar 2011

Asymmetric Strategies As Strategies Of The Strong, Michael Breen, Joshua A. Geltzer

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


Just Add Women And Stir?, Sahana Dharmapuri Mar 2011

Just Add Women And Stir?, Sahana Dharmapuri

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


Editor's Shelf, Robert H. Taylor Mar 2011

Editor's Shelf, Robert H. Taylor

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


Twenty Years After The Cold War: A Strategic Survey, Nader Elhefnawy Mar 2011

Twenty Years After The Cold War: A Strategic Survey, Nader Elhefnawy

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


From The Editor, Robert H. Taylor Mar 2011

From The Editor, Robert H. Taylor

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


Review Essay: The Piracy “Threat” In Perspective, John Patch Mar 2011

Review Essay: The Piracy “Threat” In Perspective, John Patch

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


The New Hampshire, Vol. 100 [101], No. 35 (Mar. 1, 2011), The New Hampshire Mar 2011

The New Hampshire, Vol. 100 [101], No. 35 (Mar. 1, 2011), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 100, but it is the 101st volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.


Landmine And Land Rights In Conflict Affected Contexts, Gichd Mar 2011

Landmine And Land Rights In Conflict Affected Contexts, Gichd

Global CWD Repository

This policy brief describes the important linkages between land rights and landmines in conflict-affected contexts. Its purpose is to deepen awareness within the broader mine action and development communities about these linkages, and provide guidance on how to effectively mainstream land rights issues into mine action operations.


Algerian Women Between French Emancipation And Religious Domination On Marriage And Divorce From 1959 Ordonnance No. 59-274 To The 1984 Code De La Famille, Teresa Camacho De Abes Mar 2011

Algerian Women Between French Emancipation And Religious Domination On Marriage And Divorce From 1959 Ordonnance No. 59-274 To The 1984 Code De La Famille, Teresa Camacho De Abes

Journal of International Women's Studies

The impact of the Code de la famille on Algerian women has been felt for 27 years and criticism of it is based on is supposed adherence to Sharī’ah. This is not an adequate assessment of this legal document or its amendments. It is a more complex issue that involves the attempt of society to re-define its identity as Algerian and Islamic after independence. In attempting to establish Algerian women’s identity there was a shift from fearless independent combatants who moved among men during the struggle for independence to a space for women as strictly wives and mothers within the …


Assessing Army Power And Energy For The Warfighter, John W. Lyons, Richard Chait, James J. Valdes Mar 2011

Assessing Army Power And Energy For The Warfighter, John W. Lyons, Richard Chait, James J. Valdes

Defense and Technology Papers

This paper reviews some of the landscape of research and development on power and energy as it pertains to the needs of the Army warfighter. It focuses on the battlefield and considers questions related to vehicles, dismounted soldiers, and forward operating bases. The context of the study is twofold: the National need to reduce the use of petroleum-based fuels and the Army’s need to reduce the logistical burden and hazards moving said fuels on the battlefield.


Trust, Privacy, And Frame Problems In Social And Business E-Networks, Part 1, Jeff Buechner Mar 2011

Trust, Privacy, And Frame Problems In Social And Business E-Networks, Part 1, Jeff Buechner

Publications and Research

Privacy issues in social and business e-networks are daunting in complexity— private information about oneself might be routed through countless artificial agents. For each such agent, in that context, two questions about trust are raised: Where an agent must access (or store) personal information, can one trust that artificial agent with that information and, where an agent does not need to either access or store personal information, can one trust that agent not to either access or store that information? It would be an infeasible task for any human being to explicitly determine, for each artificial agent, whether it can …


Russian Military Politics And Russia's 2010 Defense Doctrine, Stephen J. Blank Dr. Mar 2011

Russian Military Politics And Russia's 2010 Defense Doctrine, Stephen J. Blank Dr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

These three papers represent the third monograph to come out of the SSI-U.S. State Department conference “Contemporary issues in International Security,” that took place at the Finnish Embassy in Washington, DC, on January 25-26, 2010. This monograph consists of three deeply probing essays into the genesis of Russia’s 2010 defense doctrine, the political struggle behind it, and the actual content of the doctrine. They reveal a highly politicized minefield of struggle comprising leading actors in the military, the government, and in Russian security policy as a whole. They duly illuminate the ongoing struggles between and among these sets of military …


India In Africa: Implications Of An Emerging Power For Africom And U.S. Strategy, J. Peter Pham Dr. Mar 2011

India In Africa: Implications Of An Emerging Power For Africom And U.S. Strategy, J. Peter Pham Dr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

This monograph examines India’s rapidly expanding network of influence in Africa. The author analyzes the country’s burgeoning public and private investments in the region as well as its policies vis-à-vis African regional organizations and individual states, especially in the security sector. After reviewing the historic role that India has played in Africa, the author looks at the principal motivations for India’s approach to Africa—including the former’s quests for the resources, business opportunities, diplomatic influence, and security—and Africans’ responses to it. In the context of the broader U.S.-India strategic partnership, as well as American political and security interests in Africa, India’s …


Civilian Skills For African Military Officers To Resolve The Infrastructure, Economic Development, And Stability Crisis In Sub-Saharan Africa, Diane E. Chido Ms. Mar 2011

Civilian Skills For African Military Officers To Resolve The Infrastructure, Economic Development, And Stability Crisis In Sub-Saharan Africa, Diane E. Chido Ms.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

For decades, a lack of economic opportunity has caused instability and violence in Sub-Saharan Africa. Fortunately, U.S. Africa Command (USAFRICOM) is in a unique position to increase stability and reduce the causes of violence and extremism through new partnerships and military-to-military training. The current training approach is very likely to be beneficial to African military officers currently on active duty; however, proficiency in military science alone will not provide the necessary skills for those separating from service and facing an uncertain future in societies that do not pay pensions on time, if at all, and do not offer economic opportunities, …


Prism Vol. 2, No. 2, Center For Complex Operations Mar 2011

Prism Vol. 2, No. 2, Center For Complex Operations

PRISM (Full PDF Issues)

PRISM is published by the National Defense University Press for the Center for Complex Operations. PRISM is a security studies journal chartered to inform members of U.S. Federal Agencies, allies, and other partners on complex and integrated national security operations; reconstruction and nationbuilding; relevant policy and strategy; lessons learned; and developments in training and education to transform America's security and development apparatus to meet tomorrow's challenges better while promoting freedom today.


Rape As A Weapon Of War In The Democratic Republic Of The Congo, Carly Brown Mar 2011

Rape As A Weapon Of War In The Democratic Republic Of The Congo, Carly Brown

Social Sciences

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been appropriately acknowledged as "the rape capital of the world." While the country has been trapped in conflict, the use of rape as a weapon of war has been rampant and unyielding. The sexual violence inflicted upon women has been nothing less than brutal and destructive, physically, socially, and psychologically. This paper analyzes the use of rape as a weapon of war in the Congo, taking into context the ongoing war, cultural and social situations that facilitate its existence, and the many consequences the victims are forced to endure.


The Immigrant Experience: Mexico And Central America To The United States, Shannon R. Nelson Mar 2011

The Immigrant Experience: Mexico And Central America To The United States, Shannon R. Nelson

Social Sciences

No abstract provided.