The role of the United States and its global military presence are under debate in the face of changing strategic and economic realities. The authors present a menu of global postures and compare them in terms of the U. S. Air Force bases, combat forces, active-duty personnel, and base operating costs. Ultimately, the choice will depend on perspectives on the role overseas military presence can play in achieving U.S. global security interests.

U.S. Overseas Military Presence: What Are the Strategic Choices?

History

Davis, Lynn E.

McNerney, Michael J.

Pettyjohn, Stacie L.

Worman, Stephen M.

Sisson, Melanie W.

Military

RAND Corporation

This independent assessment is a comprehensive study of the strategic benefits, risks, and costs of U.S. military presence overseas. The report provides policymakers a way to evaluate the range of strategic benefits and costs that follow from revising the U.S. overseas military presence by characterizing how this presence contributes to assurance, deterrence, responsiveness, and security cooperation goals.

Overseas Basing of U.S. Military Forces: An Assessment of Relative Costs and Strategic Benefits

Business & Money

Halliday, John

Peltz, Eric

Frelinger, David R.

Sollinger, Jerry M.

Eaton, Derek

Greenfield, Victoria A.

Lostumbo, Michael J.

Mills, Patrick

Nardulli, Bruce R.

Management & Leadership

Ending the U.S. war in Iraq required redeploying 100,000 military and civilian personnel; handing off responsibility for 431 activities to the Iraqi government, U.S. embassy, USCENTCOM, or other U.S. government entities; and moving or transferring ownership of over a million pieces of property in accordance with U.S. and Iraqi laws, national policy, and DoD requirements. This book examines the planning and execution of this transition.

Ending the U.S. War in Iraq: The Final Transition, Operational Maneuver, and Disestablishment of United States Forces-Iraq

Campbell, Jason

Connable, Ben

Ries, Charles P.

Hanauer, Larry

Kelly, Terrence K.

McMahon, K. Scott

Brennan, Richard R.

Young University of Southern In, Stephanie L.

Middle East

Based on an analysis of security cooperation (SC) data and state fragility scores for 107 countries in 1991–2008, the report describes the correlation between provision of SC by the United States and a reduction in partner state fragility.

Assessing Security Cooperation as a Preventive Tool

Documents the planning and execution of the U.S. military’s exit from Iraq, the transition of responsibilities to the Iraqi government and other U.S. departments and agencies, and lessons for future military drawdowns and the resulting diplomatic transitions

Ending the U.S. War in Iraq: The Final Transition, Operational Maneuver, and Disestablishment of the United States Forces--Iraq

BRENNAN, Richard

Campbell, Jason H.

This report addresses the challenge of creating a U.S. Department of Defense–wide (DoD-wide) system for security cooperation assessment, monitoring, and evaluation (AME) by (1) analyzing existing planning and AME principles, processes, and practices inside and outside DoD and (2) presenting a conceptual framework that explains how AME methods might be applied, integrated, and implemented by major security cooperation organizations

Developing an Assessment, Monitoring, and Evaluation Framework for U.S. Department of Defense Security Cooperation

Stebbins, David

Marquis, Jefferson P.

Zimmerman, S. Rebecca

Boback, Jeremy

Congress has authorized billions of dollars for new security cooperation programs since 2001 to meet an ever-widening set of national security challenges. This report analyzes the obstacles that the Department of Defense faces in tracking its spending on security cooperation activities and recommends ways to streamline its reporting process to meet new requirements for transparency imposed by the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act.

Follow the Money: Promoting Greater Transparency in Department of Defense Security Cooperation Reporting

Grill, Beth

Thaler, David E.

Miles, Renanah

Clapp-Wincek, Cynthia

This fascinating book places 23 human-effigy folk gravestones and the persons and families they represent in genealogical, historical, and geographical context. Starting with nothing more than crudely inscribed information obtained from gravestones in rural and long-abandoned cemeteries, the authors identify the individuals and their extended family ties. Several individuals and families are traced to their Virginia, Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky homelands. A profusely illustrated, readable slice of pioneer life and an excellent example of combining gravestone and genealogical charts. Families include: Hazel, Rolston, Hays, Cotton, Hill, Ditterline, Ellis, Cannaday, Sullenger, Watson, Scott, Beanard and (Shuffle) Barger. 42 pages, 9 maps, 40 photos, 6 genealogical charts.

Early pioneer gravestones of Pope County, Illlinois

American Kestrel Books

This is the story of a uniquely shaped pioneer gravemarker brought by the first wave of immigrants arriving in southern Illinois in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Although the book focuses on the spatial and the temporal distribution of the style in Illinois, it also provides a cultural context for this folk gravemarker as the nation rapidly changes from a frontier society to a commercial/industrial society beginning about 1845 and continuing into the 20th century. The book explores the origins of the marker in America and Europe, offers a preliminary look at stylistic change, and tracks the migration of some of the families whose names are inscribed on the markers.

A Shape in Time and Space: The Migration of the Necked Discoid Gravemarker-the Illinois Sample

Americas

Borgo Publishing

This report defines and describes will to fight and provides a model of unit will to fight that can be applied to ground combat units of any scale. The model provides a research-grounded template for case-by-case adviser assessment of partner or allied military forces and the intelligence analysis of adversary forces. This report also provides a theoretical basis for adding will to fight to military war gaming and simulation.

Will to Fight: Analyzing, Modeling, and Simulating the Will to Fight of Military Units

Marcellino, William

Castillo, Jasen J.

Posard, Marek N.

Frank, Aaron

Lander, Natasha

Hargrove, Henry

Sladden, James

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