Mind the Gap: Promoting a Transatlantic Revolution in Military Affairs

Engineering & Transportation

Libicki, Martin C.

Kugler, Richard L.

Gompert, David C.

Engineering

Diane Pub Co.

The Future U.S. Military Presence in Europe: Forces and Requirements for the Post-Cold War Era/R-4194-Eucom/Na (Rand Report)

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

UNKNO

This study examines the foreign policy and security implications of a single dominant hypothesis: that a dangerous world may lie ahead. It proposes a scenario with three main aspects: political and economic tension in three primary regions, geopolitical relations of the West with Russia and China, and the tenuous Western Alliance cohesion.

Toward a Dangerous World?: U.S. National Security Strategy for the Coming Turbulence

History

Military

RAND Corporation

A political-military analysis of NATO expansion into Eastern Europe.

Enlarging NATO: The Russian Factor

Operation Anaconda, conducted in the Shahikot Valley of Afghanistan during early March 2002, was a complex battle fought in rugged mountainous terrain under difficult conditions. The battle ended as an American victory at the cost of eight U.S. military personnel killed and more than 50 wounded. But the difficult early stages of the battle provide insights for thinking about how to organize, train, and equip U.S. forces for future joint expeditionary operations and how to pursue transformation.

Operation Anaconda: Lessons for Joint Operations

Binnendijk, Hans

Baranick, Michael

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

This book is intended to help fill a void in the literature while making a contribution to public awareness. Most books on national security affairs focus on substantive issues, such as nuclear proliferation, arguing in favor of one policy or another. This book addresses something more basic: how to conduct policy analysis in the field of national security, including foreign policy and defense strategy. It illuminates how key methods of analysis can be employed, by experts and nonexperts, to focus widely, address small details, or do both at the same time. To my knowledge, there is no other book quite like it.

Policy Analysis in National Security Affairs: New Methods for a New Era

Social Sciences

Forging national security strategies is one of the most important and difficult challenges that the U.S. government faces. In this landmark book, Dr. Richard Kugler addresses the U.S. track record in this arena over the past century. For each president, from Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama, he asks whether U.S. key decisions were wise or unwise. Kugler reaches a troubling conclusion: although the United States has often acted wisely, too often it has acted unwisely in ways that have had damaging, unforeseen consequences. Kugler starts by reviewing U.S. strategy during the decades covering WWI and WWII. He then devotes five chapters to the Cold War from the late 1940s to the 1980s. He offers four long chapters on the modern age, covering Presidents George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. Along the way he provides considerable detail about the strategies of these four presidents—their successes and their mistakes. The result is an in-depth portrayal of these years that exceeds other strategy books. The book provides extensive and critical documentation in notes, bibliography, and index. This book offers readers an excellent opportunity to learn about U.S. national security strategy and how to evaluate it.

A Search for Strategic Wisdom: Guiding the Twists and Turns of US National Security Strategy

By David C. Gompert, et al. Addresses the problem of the growing disparity in combat capability between European and United States forces. Lays out a multi tiered strategy for its solution which is specific and practical, including processes and procedures for implementation.

S/N 008-020-01457-5

National Defense University

Seeing the Elephant: The U.S. Role in Global Security

What is the current state of the global security system, and where is it headed? What challenges and opportunities do we face, and what dangers are emerging? How will various regions of the world be affected? How can the United States best act to help shape the future while protecting its security, interests, and values? How can the United States deal with the threats of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction? An intellectual history of U.S. national security thinking since the end of the fall of the Soviet Union, Seeing the Elephant is an attempt to see the evolving international security system and America’s role in it through the eyes of more than fifty perceptive authors who have analyzed key aspects of the unfolding post–Cold War drama. Its premise is that, like the blind men in the Buddhist fable who each feels a different part of an elephant, these authors and their assessments, taken together, can give us a better view of where the world is headed.

Americas

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