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

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

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

Despite changes in the global security environment stemming from the end of the Cold War, U.S. ov...

The relationship between China and North Korea surely ranks as one of world's strangest. While on...

As the Army downsizes its personnel while still being asked to conduct a wide variety of missions...

While sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has never been the centerpiece of U.S. foreign or defense policy, ...

In this monograph, Dr. Evan Ellis seeks to do several things. He documents and examines the chara...

The September 11 attacks against U.S. targets came as a frightening shock to most Americans who h...

The United States has a core national interest in maintaining peace and stability in the Middle E...

Since the early stages of World War II, militaries in general, and the U.S. Army in particular, h...

Critics often charge that the major revision of U.S. military strategy which took place after the...

During a recent address to the National Defense University on U.S. counterterrorism strategy, Pre...

This monograph examines the role of pseudo operations in several foreign counterinsurgency campai...

Stories about unmanned vehicles now appear regularly in the national news-and not always in good ...

This monograph is another in the series of studies on aspects of Russian defense and foreign poli...

In March 2006, President George W. Bush signed a new National Security Strategy that he refers to...

David C. Hendrickson and Robert W. Tucker examine the contentious debate over the Iraq war and oc...

The future of the Global War on Terror is now, and may continue indefinitely to be, a key concern...

The future of Iraq is uncertain. The country is in a dangerous phase. The removal of a brutal dic...

The United States no doubt will be involved in the Middle East for many decades. To be sure, sett...

The post-9 11 security environment and the demands of global, integrated operations and campaigns...

The Middle East is facing a period of great instability and uncertainty. The region is beset with...

China's global rise has prompted numerous discussions and studies of this historically monumental...

Dr. Max Manwaring wrote this monograph in response to the fact that today over half the countries...

Russia's seizure of Crimea from Ukraine in March 2014 underscored the vast differences between th...

The U.S. Army faces global challenges that have required it to use reserve components in a manner...

The United States has found no shortage of difficulties in recent years as it has moved forward i...

The euphoria over the exceptionally successful combat operations of the Iraqi War has subsided as...

As a region with abundant resources and rapidly growing transit potential surrounded by nuclear-a...

Chinese-Russian security relations directly concern many subjects of interest to the Strategic St...

Hezbollah's conduct of its 2006 campaign in southern Lebanon has become an increasingly important...

One of the greatest challenges facing the United States today is the translation of its overwhelm...

Since 1995, peace operations in the Balkans have been an important part of the Army's contributio...

The role of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in regional politics, and the significanc...

The military response to Hurricane Sandy was historically significant. For the first time, dual s...

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

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...