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A Proposed Human Capital Model Focused Upon Talent
The Strategic Studies Institute has published a 6-part Officer Corps Strategy Series analyzing the development of an officer corps strategy. This book...
Employing Talent
Towards a U.S. Army Officer Corps Strategy for Success: Employing Talent is the last of six monographs focused upon officer talent management in the U...
Retaining Talent
The U.S. Army has made significant investments in its future, especially in its leadership. In particular, the Army has devoted billions of dollars to...
Use, Potentials, and Military Implications
The work is divided into an introduction to the topical area, a UAV historical overview and discussion of present use by the U.S. military, a chronolo...
Fostering Institutional Adaptability
Since 1983, the mission of the U.S. Army Office of Economic and Manpower Analysis (OEMA) has been to provide a sound basis for policy and planning for...
Developing Talent
The U.S. Army has always touted itself as a capstone developmental experience and still does so today- You made them strong-we'll make them Army Stron...
Nuclear Power and Nonproliferation
The President of the United States and nearly all his critics agree that the spread of nuclear weapons and the possibility of their seizure and potent...
When U.S. President Barack Obama cancelled a scheduled September 2013 summit meeting with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, "lack of progress o...
Bosnia-Herzegovina, once thought to be on the way to joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union (EU), is instead fal...
Assessing the Defense Capabilities of Key U.S. Allies and Security Partners
With the United States facing two major revisionist powers, Russia and China, as well as additional security threats from North Korea, Iran, and jihad...
Sadism as an Instrument of Cartel Warfare
The United States has diplomatic relations with 194 independent nations. Of these, none is more important to America than Mexico in terms of trade, in...
Putting the Kurds on the Map?
The withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from Iraq at the end of 2011 left behind a set of unresolved problems in the relationship between the Kurdistan R...
With the assistance of the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College, the Army's Office of Economic and Manpower Analysis published a s...
Goal in Sight?
The depth and scale of change that the Russian military has undergone during the last 5 years of transformation is impossible to overstate. This book ...
On November 23, 2013, the Chinese government announced plans to establish a new air defense intercept zone which will include the Diaoyu or Senkaku Is...
On November 23, 2013, China's Ministry of National Defense spokesman announced that a new air defense intercept zone (ADIZ) will be established by the...
Alliance Revitalization and Partner Development
The United States prefers to fight in coalitions, and has made this clear in both word and deed. Most of the key American national security or defense...
This volume provides unique insights into the PLA's achievements over the span of Hu Jintao's tenure as Central Military Commission Chair from 2002 to...
Americans are averse to war and easily frustrated with wars of limited objectives. As such, Americans have a cultural aversion to counterinsurgency (C...
The Letort Papers
Initial operations in Afghanistan in 2001, and Iraq in 2003, seemed to validate claims for the decisive impact of American airpower in modern war. How...
It is important to involve the security sector agents themselves in the process to overcome institutional opposition; appealing to professional ethics...
Most of the papers included in this volume, except for the editor's introduction, come from the conference on Visual Propaganda and Online Radicalizat...
After 13 years of prolonged ground combat, a weary American public is leery of further interventions requiring land forces. Shifting geostrategic cond...
The Military Dimension
The relative rise of China is likely to lead a major shift in the world's strategic architecture, which the United States will need to accommodate. Fo...
Navigation AIDS for the Mystery Tour
The purpose of this book is to explore and examine the challenge to America's defense planners of needing to make purposeful and prudent choices in mi...
Does Forward Presence Still Matter? the Case of the Army in the Pacific
The time has come for a reappraisal of the U.S. Army's forward presence in East Asia, given the significantly changed strategic context and the extrao...
U.S. military leaders, planners, and decision makers face a new security environment in the 21st century, characterized by its complex networked natur...
Profound changes in regional geopolitical dynamics in the Arabian Gulf since the early-2000s render the region a highly challenging environment for U....
The current international security environment is characterized by unprecedented uncertainty. In the Asia-Pacific, our allies adjust to China's rise a...
Suicide bombers are today's weapon of choice. Terrorists are using suicide bombers because they are a low cost, low technology, and low risk weapon. S...
Lessons from the United Kingdom Reserve Model
In the current age of economic austerity, there is increasing pressure for the military in the United States and the United Kingdom (UK) to be streaml...
This book analyzes the interconnections between the democratic institutionalization of the newly independent states using the examples of Ukraine, Geo...
The Syrian civil war has allowed al-Qaeda to recover from its setbacks up to 2010. Its main affiliate in the region seems to be testing a new strategy...
This book addresses the role of tribal militias in the context of the fight against Al-Qaida. The intent is to enrich policy analysis and clarify opti...
The Cases of Lebanon, Israel-palestine
The United States plays a significant role in the Middle East. When dealing with the region, often the dilemma is: should there be a strong or weak re...
Until the end of the Cold War, terrorism was a phenomenon practically unknown in the Soviet Union. The chaotic disappearance of the Union of Soviet So...
Human Security As Grand Strategy
Dire forecasts of "game-changing" political, social and environmental upheaval over the next thirty years only add to the pessimism generated by const...
The Foundation of A U.S. Army Officer Corps Strategy
Accessing Talent: The Foundation of a U.S. Army Officer Corps Strategy, is the fourth of six books focused upon officer talent management in the U.S. ...
Does the Army's Culture Facilitate Integration, Character Development, and Trust in the Profession?
The context for this book lies in the trust relationships that American military professions must retain with the society they serve if they are to re...
Strategy for Security, Prosperity, and Peace
Transportation is the "web of union", and sustainability of systems relies upon political will. Sustainable transportation is the result of intentiona...