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Trends. The Pros And Cons Of Decapitation: An Example From Dagestan, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article explores the pros and cons of destroying or severely degrading the strategic command, control, and communication (C3) assets of a politico-military adversary--i.e., decapitation.

Trends. An Implosion Of Ideology: Bosnia, Kosovo, Northern Ireland, Palestine, The Soviet Union, And Beyond, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The article discusses multiethnic, representative democracies (MRDs) that often promulgate and effect foreign policies that are founded on the ideological premise that instilling MRDs throughout the world is necessarily the optimal road to Good.

Ibpp Research Associates: East Timor, Anonymous

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The article is a rushed letter from an anonymous individual involved in East Timor in late August or early September 1999 when Indonesian troops were present in the area. The letter was sent to the International Peace Practitioners Network (IPPN). For reference, IPPN is a project of the Peace Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association and of Psychologists for Social Responsibility

The letter itself was subsequently forwarded to IBPP by IPPN, and the content of the letter was not verified by IBPP.

IBPP commentary includes a discussion of the role of political psychologists, and other interested parties, in the …

Trends. Employment Policies For Nuclear Weapons: Uses Of First Use, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) public policy advocating a "first use" of nuclear weapons during the Cold War.

Nonexplosive Warfare: Is It New Or Old?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article provides a contrary opinion to the analysis of the new United States Secretary of the Navy, Richard Danzig, concerning biological warfare agents and computer-attack variants of information warfare. The opinion is based on the perspective of science and technological change within the context of social, cultural, and political phenomena.

Trends. Terrorism And Biological Warfare: A Problem Of Perspective, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the cunundrum of how to best deter or manage a biological warfare (BW) attack by terrorists.

Trends. Troubles: The Northern Ireland Settlement, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author analysis the two different stances of the recent "landmark settlement" on Northern Ireland forged by various factions of Catholics and Protestants from Northern Ireland, the national leaderships of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, and at least two United States interlocutors.

Trends. A Strategic Defense Initiative Against Biological Warfare: Sense? Nonsense? Mal Vu, Mal Dit?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) that was initiated by United States (US) President Ronald Reagan during his first term.

The Case For The Vietnam War, W. W. Rostow

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

Moltke And The German Military Tradition: His Theories And Legacies, Antulio J. Echevarria Ii

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

Melancholy Reunion: A Report From The Future On The Collapse Of Civil-Military Relations In The United States, Charles J. Dunlap Jr.

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Putting Naval Before History, Mark R. Shulman

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The New Military Revolution: Post-Industrial Change, Antulio J. Echevarria Ii, John M. Shaw

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

Be All You Can Be (Without The Protection Of The Constitution), Keith M. Harrison

Law Faculty Scholarship

[Excerpt] “Despite the generous inclusion by President Reagan of the many soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines in the concept of "the people" of this republic, it is not altogether dear whether one whose status has changed from ordinary "citizen" to "a member of the armed forces" can legitimately claim any of the constitutional protections of citizenship until he or she is no longer a member of the armed forces. In the course of this nation's history the Supreme Court has denied some or all of the protection of the Constitution to many groups of people, including African-Americans, 2 women,3 Native …

Carrying A Big Carrot: Linking Multilateral Disarmament And Development Assistance, David A. Koplow, Philip G. Schrag

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

This article proposes, as a new element of the "liberal internationalism" that should characterize the post-Cold War world, a simultaneous solution to these three problems. The nations of the world should negotiate a series of multilateral agreements to stop the spread of advanced weaponry, and include in each of them, as an overt incentive for developing states to accept the disarmament and verification obligations, provisions that explicitly require the affluent, developed states to make specified monetary and in-kind transfers to the third world parties. The new regime should also provide stronger-than-customary treaty procedures for clarifying ambiguities, adjudicating claims, and resolving …

Saddam Hussein: Master Air Strategist, Charles J. Dunlap Jr.

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The Modern Defenses Of The Coast Of Maine, 1891 - 1945 (Vol.1), Joel W. Eastman

Maine Collection

The Modern Defenses of the Coast of Maine, 1891 - 1945 (Vol.1)

by Joel W. Eastman.

Contents: Preface and Acknowledgements, I. History, II. Inventory of Sites and Structures, III. Evaluation of Specific Sites and Structures, IV. Appendices, The Author.

Prepared for Maine Historical Preservation Commission, Augusta, Maine

October 31, 1988

The Modern Defenses Of The Coast Of Maine, 1891 - 1945 (Vol. 2), Joel W. Eastman

Maine Collection

The Modern Defenses of the Coast of Maine, 1891 - 1945 (Vol. 2) - Annexes.

by Joel W. Eastman

Contents: Annex 1 -- Maps of Forts, Reservations and Locations., Annex 2 -- Representative Batteries and Ordnance., Annex 3 -- Plans of Representative Structures., Annex 4 -- Photographs of Representative Structures.

Prepared for Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Augusta, Maine

October 23, 1988

The Army's Command Sergeant Major Problem, John C. Bahnsen, James W. Bradin

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

Insurgency And Counterinsurgency: The Role Of Strategic Theory, Charles Maechling Jr.

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

The Soviet Invasion Of Afghanistan: Its Inevitability And Its Consequences, Lawrence E. Grinter

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

The Pentagon's Exercise, 'Proud Spirit': Little Cause For Pride, John J. Fialka

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

Détente And South Asia, Archer K. Blood

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

The Legal Process In Foreign Affairs: Military Intervention -- A Testing Case, Thomas Ehrlich

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

An Alternative To The Connally Reservation, William Legro

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

Annual Report Of The Adjutant General Of The State Of Maine For The Years Ending June 30, 1945 And June 30, 1946 & History Of The State Guard From Its Inception To 30 June 1946, Office Of The Adjutant General

Maine Collection

Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine for the Years Ending June 30, 1945 and June 30, 1946 & History of the State Guard From Its Inception to 30 June 1946. (cover title)

This volume includes three distinct reports bound together:

- Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine for the Year Ending June 30, 1945. (116 pgs.)

- Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine for the Year Ending June 30, 1946. (86 pgs.)

- History Maine State Guard From Its Inception to 30 June 1946. (126 …

An Alphabetical Index Of Revolutionary Pensioners Living In Maine, Charles Alcott Flagg

Maine Collection

An Alphabetical Index of Revolutionary Pensioners Living in Maine

by Charles Alcott Flagg (1870-1920)

"Limited Edition of 200 Copies." Reprinted from Sprague's Journal of Maine History, Dover, Maine 1920.

The War With Germany: A Statistical Summary, Leonard P. Ayres

United States Army: Publications

Includes a statistical summary of the larger steps in the military preparation and action of the United States in the First World War (United States involvement, April 6, 1917-November 11, 1918). The data presented were compiled by the several sections of the Statistics Branch of the General Staff. In the main they set forth facts taken from the reports made by the Branch each week during the war to the President, the Secretary of War, and to the Chief of Staff. These have been supplemented by facts and figures secured from the offices of the Statistics Branch maintained during the …

The Bible Against War, Amos Dresser

Historical Quaker Books

This book discusses the Bible's objections to war.

252 pages, 15 cm.