On November 8-9, 2011, the National Defense University (NDU) held a conference entitled 'Forging ...

Security Force Assistance is analyzed, and some specific recommendations designed to improve U.S....

The 2009 Failed States Index identifies many nations as being in danger of becoming failed states...

While 'knowing your enemy' has long been a Chinese stratagem, cultural intelligence only recently...

Today we continue to face an uncertain, complicated and rapidly changing international security e...

The U.S. Army has had a 'Total Forces Policy' for over 30 years, with an increased focus for the ...

If the United States is likely to fight in a coalition with small allies in the future, then it i...

Through the prism of operations in Afghanistan, the author examines how the U.S. Government's Str...

As the United States reassesses relations with Russia and develops doctrine that addresses a turb...

The interagency process was the focus of a Capstone project and Research Symposium at the Bush Sc...

The United States, particularly the Army, has a long history of involvement with Cuba. This histo...

The American way of war has been much written about over the years. That literature is remarkable...

This is one in the Special Series of monographs stemming from the February 2001 conference on Pla...

The U.S. military and national security community lost interest in insurgency after the end of th...

The ideas of military transformation have been percolating within the U.S. military for more than...

The Gulf region has been vital to the interests of the United States and the industrial world for...

The United States is likely to face crucial grand strategic decisions in the coming years. This b...

Learning By Doing

The Army's Office of Economic and Manpower Analysis published a series of monographs during 2009 ...

On March 20, 2008, the Bush School of Government and Public Service and the European Union Center...

There has been widespread discussion of Russia's efforts to exploit its energy assets to influenc...

Prior to World War II, the majority of instances where American armed forces were used abroad inv...

The Iraq War has been the subject of heatedpolitical debate and intense academic scrutiny. Muchar...

In March 2001, the U.S. Army War College, the Triangle Institute for Security Studies, and Duke U...

Contrary to the wave of euphoria following the collapse of the Soviet Empire, the new world order...

The intent of this monograph is to identify some of the most salient characteristics of contempor...

Most of the ideas that form of the foundation of American defense policy and military strategy to...

Developing an effective U.S. national security strategy for Latin America hinges upon how well Co...

For the past 2 decades, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has made great gains in national dev...

To support warfighters in the 21st century, Army and joint space operations must adapt to a conge...

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is moving forward with a broad set of innovation initiatives...

This monograph is meant to provide an unbiased examination of: the scarcity of natural gas in the...

The U.S. President and nearly all his critics agree that the spread of nuclear weapons and the po...

Civil-military relations is one of the most challenging dimensions to deal with regarding North K...

Mao Tse-tung counseled, 'To achieve victory we must as far as possible make the enemy blind and d...

In 2010, NATO decided to expand its ballistic missile defense program, in part because of the Ame...

An apparent lack of interest by Russia in Sub-Saharan Africa over recent years masks persistent k...

Central Asia is a key theater in the war on terrorism. It is a region of fragile new states, all ...

After the 9 11 attacks on the United States, homeland defense became the primary issue in U.S. de...

A sea-change has occurred in troubled Colombia, as detailed in this monograph. For the first time...

U.S. plans for missile defense have been a contentious issue in transatlantic relations for nearl...

The Joint Strategic Planning System has been considered the primary formal means by which the Cha...

Recent events in Mali, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere demonstrate that building p...

Defense planning unavoidably must be in the nature of a mystery tour. The inability to know the f...

This publication is the first in a new series, entitled PKSOI Papers, being published by the Stra...

The Department of Defense (DoD) is committed to transforming its conventional warfare capabilitie...

Failed states-states in which government authority has collapsed, violence has become endemic, an...

The transformation of the U.S. military is entering a critical stage. The Department of Defense i...