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Which Wars Spread? Commitment Problems And Military Intervention, Zachary C. Shirkey

Publications and Research

This article argues that wars caused by commitment problems are more likely to experience outside military intervention than are wars with other causes. Wars caused by commitment problems are more likely to draw in outside states because they tend to be more severe and produce larger war aims. These larger stakes create both threats and opportunities for non-belligerent states thereby prompting military intervention. The greater stakes also generate incentives for belligerent states to seek outside aid. This relationship between commitment problems and intervention implies that while certain types of wars may be more likely to experience intervention, the same causes …

Exploring The Phenomenon Of Secondary Teachers Integrating The Lms Canvas In A Blended-Learning Course, Travis Towne

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Online learning has become fully ingrained within the educational environment and extensive LMS use in higher education settings is challenging secondary education institutions to keep pace with the growing trend to offer LMS resources to their teachers and students; however, schools that have chosen to implement an LMS face multiple challenges in motivating teachers and students to accept and integrate the new technology into their course curriculum. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to investigate teachers’ experiences integrating the LMS Canvas within a blended-learning course in a rural high school district located in the Southeastern United States. The study …

Ministry And Nonprofit Finance: A Guide To Promote Awareness, Stewardship, And Compliance, Larry Brown

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Scripture addresses few topics more frequently than that of finances (e.g., Prov 3:9, Matt 6:21, Ecc 5:10). Given this, and the legal aspects of ministry and nonprofit finances, it is imperative that such organizations ensure awareness of, and compliance with, financial requirements and best practices; this encompasses not only leaders, but also board members and staff/congregation of the organization. All these aspects are fused together under the term “stewardship”–properly and conscientiously managing the assets of another (or of others). This thesis reviews current literature, scriptural guidance, and established best practices to outline optimal practices for ministries/nonprofits. Additionally, this thesis uses …

A Study Of Flight Simulation Training Time, Aircraft Training Time, And Pilot Competence As Measured By The Naval Standard Score, Aaron D. Judy

Doctor of Education (Ed.D)

The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationships between US Navy T-45C flight simulation training time, actual aircraft training time, and intermediate and advanced jet pilot competence as measured by the Naval Standard Score (NSS). Examining the relationships between US Navy T-45C flight simulation time and actual aircraft flight time may provide further information on flight simulation training versus actual aircraft training to aviation authorities, flight instructors, the military aviation community, the commercial aviation community, and academia. The study was non-experimental, correlational, causal-comparative with an emphasis upon the establishment of mathematic and predictive relationships using archival data from …

Analysis Of Sensor Signals For Online Detection Of Hydrocarbons In Liquids In The Presence Of Interferents, Karthick Sothivelr

Dissertations (1934 -)

Current applicability of many chemical sensors is limited due to the lack of adequate selectivity to enable real-world applications. Often, the chemically sensitive element of the sensor is only partially selective to any specific target analyte, potentially giving rise to low probability of detection. Other challenges include the need to identify and quantify the target analytes in a mixture, especially in the presence of non-target interferents. In this dissertation, to enhance the selectivity of the sensor, analysis of sensor signals for detection and quantification of mixtures of hydrocarbon compounds in liquids in the presence of interferents using estimation theory and …

The Call For Freedom And Independence In West Papua, Samira L. Saunders , '18

Senior Theses, Projects, and Awards

No abstract provided.

Justification By Heaven: A Comparative Analysis Of Political Legitimacy In Confucianism And Mohism, Sung Min Kim

Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History

About the author:

Sung Min Kim attends UIUC (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) as a double major in History and East Asian Languages and Cultures. His field of interest is the history of early China from the Eastern Zhou to Han Dynasty.

A War That Never Ends: Internal Conflicts, External Interventions, And The Civil Wars In Afghanistan, Chang-Dae David Hyun

Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History

About the author:

Chang-Dae David Hyun received his H.B.A with a concentration in political science from the University of Toronto in 2017. He was a Winner of Kathleen & William Davis Scholarship and Saul & Lois Rae Scholarship at the University College. He received a full scholarship from the Tsinghua University of China during the summer of 2017. He was a former sergeant from the Republic of Korea Air Force (2007-2010).

Jewish Trail Of Tears Ii: Children Refugee Bills Of 1939 And 1940, Dennis Ross Laffer

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this dissertation was to compare and contrast the origins, formulation, course, and outcome of three major American immigration schemes to provide haven for German Jewish and non-Aryan refugees and British children: The Intergovernmental Committee for Political Refugees (better known as the Evian Conference), and particularly the German Refugee Children’s Bill (also labeled as the Wagner-Rogers Bill) and the Hennings Bill. The Evian Conference, called for by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the aftermath of the Anschluss, the German annexation of Austria, sought to create a global solution to the problem of forced migration. The Wagner-Rogers Bill, influenced …

Ancestors Change Constantly: Subversive Religious Colonial Deconstruction In The Religion Of Black Panther, Jon Ivan Gill

Journal of Religion & Film

This is one of a series of film reviews of Black Panther (2018), directed by Ryan Coogler.

Winter 2006 Full Issue, The U.S. Naval War College

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

From The Editors, Pelham G. Boyer

Naval War College Review

Carnes Lord, professor of military and naval strategy in the Strategic Research Department of the Center for Naval Warfare Studies, U.S. Naval War College, has recently been appointed editor of the Naval War College Press. Dr. Lord is a political scientist with broad interests in international and strategic studies, national security organization and management, and political philosophy.

The Russian Military: Power And Purpose,, Stephen Blank

Naval War College Review

The study of the Russian armed forces has, like those armed forces themselves, fallen upon hard times in the contempo- rary world. Therefore, this study is most welcome. The editors and authors Americans, Europeans, and Russians— are all acknowledged experts, so it is not surprising that all the essays are of uniformly high quality. The editors also deserve praise for including a chapter on the defense economy; its evolution is a telling indicator of Russia’s defense policy and overall political economy.

Blink: The Power Of Thinking Without Thinking, Richard Norton

Naval War College Review

Among the many attributes desired in professional military officers is the abil- ity to make extremely rapid decisions under conditions of extreme stress and peril, and for the highest imaginable stakes. Decisions may even have to be made in less time than is available con- sciously to weigh the alternatives and select a course of action. Although not unique—others, including doctors, law enforcement officials, and firefighters, face similar situations and under equiv- alent expectations—such demands are not a common part of most people’s work experience.

Warfighting And Disruptive Technologies: Disguising Innovation,, Robert C. Rubel

Naval War College Review

Captain Terry Pierce is a serving naval officer who has studied innovation at the John F. Kennedy School of Govern- ment at Harvard, under the supervision of Stephen Rosen. This book appears to be the author’s dissertation, written as part of a series on strategy and history edited by Colin Gray and Williamson Murray. Beyond that, nothing about this book is clear or straightforward, including the title. The title leads one to think that the book will examine how revolutionary technologies have transformed warfare, but the subtitle, “Disguising Innovation,” should serve as a warning—nothing is as it first seems.

Chain Of Command: The Road From 9/11 To Abu Ghraib, Ron Ratcliff

Naval War College Review

Seymour Hersh continues with his lat- est work his journey as a man with an agenda. Released in September 2004, it is a compilation of articles published in The New Yorker, with additional infor- mation intended to present a congruent, as well as compelling, story about the Bush administration’s efforts to wage a worldwide war on terrorism. That Hersh is a fan neither of the presi- dent and his closest aides nor of the Iraq war is made abundantly clear from the opening pages.

National Security Law, Second Edition,, Sean P. Henseler

Naval War College Review

In 1990 John Norton Moore and Robert F. Turner, along with Frederick S. Tipson, published a National Security Law casebook covering a “new field in American law and legal education,” a work designed for “use in law schools, advanced degree programs in international relations and national security, and the nation’s war colleges and service academies—as well as to serve as a handy desk reference for professionals and practitioners.” Since the publication of that first edi- tion the U.S. national security landscape has undergone a radical transforma- tion. Over the last fifteen years the United States has been to war in …

International Security: An Analytical Survey,, Tom Fedyszyn

Naval War College Review

National security students and practi- tioners commonly dive into esoteric de- bates on the merits of various grand strategies and foreign policies, having spent little or no time pondering the contemporary meaning of the term that drives the discussion—“security.” Michael Sheehan, professor of interna- tional relations at Swansea University in the United Kingdom, and author of a number of authoritative texts on related subjects, was driven to write this book by a felt need to shed more light on this “contested concept.” International Secu- rity does an admirable job of illustrat- ing the myriad ways in which scholars have used …

Book Reviews, The U.S Naval War College

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

U.S. Foreign Policy In Central Asia, Alan Lee Boyer

Naval War College Review

Located in the heart of Central Asia are five weak states: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Structural factors such as small populations and geographic remoteness, combined with a failure to provide ade- quate levels of “political goods,” are the sources of their weakness.1 The govern- ments’ failures are due in large part to the political and economic development paths they have followed since independence at the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. The governments in Central Asia are largely authoritarian and ruled by for- mer Communist Party officials.

Ssgn, Charles D. Sykora

Naval War College Review

As budget challenges put increasing pressure on the operational forces, the ability to deter both potential adversary nations and terrorists will require the warfighting platforms of the United States to be ready to perform diverse missions in parallel. Transformation of operational and tactical precepts will be required to support these increasing demands. The nuclear-powered guided-missile (actually, cruise-missile) submarine, or SSGN, is just such a transformational asset.

Future Navies—Present Issues, Jane G. Dalton

Naval War College Review

The U.S. Navy is transforming itself to deal with a wider range of missions than the traditional blue-water, major combat operations that it has tradi- tionally been equipped to handle.1 That emerging transformation has resulted in a number of new programs, technologies, and strategies that raise interesting, and sometimes complex, legal issues. Lawyers advising the Navy’s leadership through this transformational process are analyzing these legal issues now, in the present, to ensure that the future U.S. Navy is properly, and legally, orga- nized, trained, and equipped.

President’S Forum, J. L. Shuford

Naval War College Review

The King's orders to Nelson underscore the remarkable degree of independence and latitude historically exercised by a captain at sea. By tradition, ships have roamed freely on the high seas and responded as events dictated without further guidance. As a matter of practice driven by limits of communications at sea, mariners of previous generations seldom relied upon consultation, cooperation, or collaboration. Indeed, the U.S. Navy successfully organized itself and operated this way for most of its history.

Summer 2007 Issue, The U.S. Naval War College

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

Space Warfare: Strategy, Principles And Policy, Dana E. Struckman

Naval War College Review

We are a nation inextricably linked to space. Every instrument of our national power—diplomatic, information, mili- tary, economic—relies to some degree on access to and unimpeded use of space. Space Warfare: Strategy, Princi- ples and Policy uses this fact to illustrate its author’s point that despite an in- creasing reliance on space capabilities, the United States has yet to develop a comprehensive space-power theory. Klein has written extensively on space- power theory, and this book builds upon many of his previous works, ad- dressing the need for a national space strategy that adequately links space op- erations with national interests.

The Survival Imperative: Using Space To Protect The Earth, John R. Arpin

Naval War College Review

Nowadays we take for granted that space assets are necessary for military operations, but the nonmilitary use of space has also passed into the realm of the necessary. While the use of space as- sets, and thus access to space, is of vital importance to the nation, there is no watershed work that unites the politi- cal, economic, industrial, and military aspects into a single vision. Space pol- icy, in other words, is still waiting for its Mahan.

Shining Path: Guerrilla War In Peru’S Northern Highlands, 1980–1997, Paul D. Taylor

Naval War College Review

In Shining Path Lewis Taylor provides compelling evidence that the attitude of the people can be decisive in war. That point will not surprise students of war- fare; they will recall that two great strat- egists stressed the central importance of having the people on your side. Focusing primarily on state-to-state conflict, Carl von Clausewitz coined the notion that war’s dominant tendencies make a “paradoxical trinity,” of which one pole comprises primordial violence, hatred, and enmity, a blind natural force. The passions, Clausewitz wrote, “that are to be kindled in war must already be in- herent in the people.” Concentrating …

Addicted To Failure: U.S. Security Policy In Latin Americaand The Andean Region, Richard Norton

Naval War College Review

It does not take exceptional analytical talent to recognize that U.S. policies in the Andean region of South America face severe challenges, especially those dealing with the war on drugs. Neither does it take an exceptional historian to recognize that the United States has all too often paid insufficient attention to its regional neighbors and partners. Finally, it takes no exceptional mastery of international relations to recognize that South America is becoming in- creasingly important to the safety, well- being, and future prosperity of the United States. For all these reasons, a clear explanation of U.S. policies in the region …

From Mahan To Pearl Harbor:The Imperial Japanese Navy And The United States, James R. Holmes

Naval War College Review

Sea power analysts surveying the “rise” of China commonly compare this emerging Asian titan to imperial Germany, whose unification upset the European great- power concert ushered in after Waterloo, and for good reason. Naval enthusiasts like Kaiser Wilhelm II and Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, their imaginations fired by the works of Alfred Thayer Mahan, hurled Germany into naval competition with Great Britain, the dominant naval power of the day, with fateful results. References to Mahan are now routine among Chinese strategic thinkers. Will China’s Mahanians prod Beijing onto a similar path to sea power, and will similar results ensue?

Taiwan’S Security: History And Prospects, Michael S. Chase

Naval War College Review

Given the importance of the Taiwan is- sue for U.S. foreign and security policy in East Asia, it is striking that relatively little has been written on Taiwan’s de- fense reform and modernization programs, especially in contrast to the substantial amount of work scholars and policy analysts have produced in recent years on Chinese military mod- ernization and its implications for re- gional security. Bernard Cole’s Taiwan’s Security: History and Prospects, which provides a comprehensive and well written assessment of recent develop- ments in Taiwan’s defense establish- ment, represents an important step in filling this gap.