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An engaging new interpretation of Clausewitz's classic On War and its relevance to contemporary world conflicts....
A Very Short Introduction
This Very Short Introduction adapts Clausewitz's framework to highlight the dynamic relationship between the main elements of strategy: purpose, metho...
The West's Technological Revolution and Visions of Wars to Come, 1880-1914
Focusing on an age of rapid technological change and increased competition among nations, Imagining Future Wars compares visions of warfare's future a...
Surveys how American strategic theorists have understood the nature and character of war in the twentieth century....
US Military Practice from the Revolution to Afghanistan
Challenging several longstanding notions about the American way of war, this book examines US strategic and operational practice from 1775 to 2014. It...
In an era of broad and perhaps profound change, new theories and concepts are to be welcomed rather than shunned. However, before they are fully embra...
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Perhaps the single most important phenomenon of the 21st century is globalization. It is clearly redefining the international security environment, as...
An Assumptions-based Critique
Technological innovation plays a paradoxical role in military transformation. With each problem it solves, technological innovation tends to introduce...
Changing Our Warfighting Doctrine - Again!
Over the last 25 years, the center of gravity concept has grown increasingly central to the U.S. military's warfighting doctrine. It has been hailed b...
Many references to "the war of ideas" have appeared in defense literature recently. However, few of them actually shed any light on what wars of ideas...
"Military strategy plays a vital role in every conflict. Inspired by the great military theoreticians Sun Tzu, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Carl von Clau...
Critical thinkers analyze and refine ideas underpinning the foundation of American defense policy and military strategy today so the defense community...
Just a few years into the new millennium and it is already a truism to say that globalization, the spread of information and information technologies,...
The American way of war has been much written about over the years. That literature is remarkable for its explicit and implicit consensus regarding th...
This monograph examines the fundamental argument that America's adversaries are shifting more toward irregular methods due to the demonstrated prowess...
A Strategic Perspective
The topic of homeland security includes a broad array of missions and mission areas ranging from national missile defense to military assistance to ci...
Globalization and Homeland Security
Much of today's defense literature calls for new ways of thinking, ways that appreciate the challenges of a new millennium. Yet, we find surprisingly ...
An Assumptions-Based Critique
Most experts agree that no genuine military transformation or revolution will occur without a corresponding change in operational concepts. Merely rep...
Defense planners and strategists have recently proposed a variety of alternatives for America's role in what many see as a dramatically different inte...