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Today the U.S. military is more nimble, mobile, and focused on rapid responses against smaller powers than ever before. One could argue that the Gulf ...
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The Strategic Studies Institute's XXI Annual Strategy Conference, held at Carlisle Barracks from April 6-8, 2010, addressed the topic of the meaning o...
Definition, Background, and Strategic Concepts
In war, there are always differences between the opponents. At times these are insignificant, passing disparities with no bearing on the outcome. At o...
Strategic Alternatives and Military Implications
The Information Revolution and Post-modern Warfare
The Military Implications of Alternative Futures
Year ago the Chief of Staff of the Army initiated the Army After Next Project (AANP) as a means of stimulating constructive thinking about the Army's ...
Strategic Studies Institute Annual Strategy Conference Report
For more than 2 decades, the Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) has hosted an annual strategy conference. Each conference was designed to convene some ...
The Strategic Role of American Landpower
The authors examine the trends in the strategic environment in their development of the Future War/Future Battlespace. One fact is clear. Traditional ...
Strategic Alternatives and Implications
U.S. strategy in the Balkans and the Army s role there is examined. The author recommends continued U.S. involvement, consideration of a long-term Ame...
Strategy and the Phoenix of American Capability
Dr. Steven Metz argues that the way the Department of Defense and U.S. military spend the time when counterinsurgency support is not an important part...
the information revolution and post-modern warfare
A Guide to Internet Resources
For strategic analysts, the ability to collect information rapidly and to evaluate its relevance and validity is a crucial skill. By allowing the near...
An Updated Guide to Internet Resources
Every day of the "Information Age" makes more material available via the Internet. Yet simply "surfing the 'Net'," while perhaps enjoyable as recreati...
Reconceptualizing Threat and Response
Modern insurgency warfare presents fresh challenges for the United States, which must re-conceptualize its approach to fighting such conflicts. Becaus...
The African Crisis Response Initiative and Beyond
Traditionally, the U.S. military has not been heavily involved in Sub-Saharan Africa. Since the end of the Cold War, though, this has begun to change....
From Theory to Policy
A small band of "RMA" analysts has emerged in the military and Department of Defense, in the academic strategic studies community, and in defense-rela...
Counterinsurgency in American Strategy
While the involvement of the United States in counterinsurgency has a long history, it had faded in importance in the years following the end of the C...
Strategic Context and Operational Concepts
Within the U.S. Army, this is a time of both excitement and challenge. As immense change takes place in the global security environment, American land...
The U.S. military and national security community lost interest in insurgency after the end of the Cold War. Other defense issues such as multinationa...
Removing Saddam Hussein by Force
One of the defining characteristics of strategy making in the Bush administration was the treatment of any decision involving transnational terrorism ...
U.S. Counterinsurgency Strategy
Participants at the seminar developed these key insights: Regardless of whether counterinsurgency (COIN) will be the dominant form of military activit...
The Strategic Shift of 2007
In this second volume of the series, Dr. Metz looks carefully at the 2007 decision to surge forces into Iraq, a choice which is generally considered t...
This report gives a simple and comprehensive definition of strategic asymmetry reflecting the need for military doctrine which transcends today's spec...
Insurgency has existed throughout history but ebbed and flowed in strategic significance. Today the world has entered another period when insurgency i...
The debate over proper civil-military relationships began while America was still a collection of British colonies. The relationship was the subject o...
Strategic Studies Institute
The recent bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma has highlighted the complexity of the phenomenon of political extremism. Until this occurred, i...
American combat effectiveness in the Gulf War suggested that a historic revolution in military affairs (RMA) is underway, possibly solving many of the...