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Donald A Gagliano
This is a curated and comprehensive collection of the most important works covering matters related to national security, diplomacy, defense, war, strategy, and tactics. The collection spans centuries of thought…
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Subrata Saha
Analysts and policy makers articulate growing concerns on whether China’s rapid rise will remain peaceful or become confrontational. To understand Chinese grand strategy, this USAWC International Officer author draws on…
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
Fulvio Poli
In the last few years, notions like ‘asymmetric warfare, ’ and, more recently, ‘hybrid warfare’ have become as common and pervasive as to appear like new orthodoxy in military thought.
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Eungjo Do
Today’s strategic environment on the Korean Peninsula and in Northeast Asia is volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. One roadblock to peace in Northeast Asia is a territorial dispute over a…
Katzutomo Idogawa
Emerging China is undoubtedly one of the biggest future security concerns for both Japan and the United States. The friction between China and Japan has recently grown, especially over territorial…
Richard A Stakelum
The 2010 National Security Strategy of the United States identified the global security threat posed by failing states. The USG response for these threats in the past has vacillated between…
Jim Hartman
Dr. Jim Hartman’s chapter, extracted from a newly published book of the same name, examines the evolution of the Army’s sustainability program and its contributions to the national strategic security…
Richard A Baylor
This US Army War College student author looks closely at Field Marshal Slim’s ethical development and leadership during all phases of his long career. He argues that the examination shows…
Larry Strobel
This doctrinal analysis describes the U.S. Army and Joint frameworks integrating stability, irregular warfare and security cooperation.
It establishes a combined framework and describes its constituent parts, and then discusses…
Shawn McGinley
What is a sufficient U.S. military force structure for ground forces in Europe given the current strategic environment? A plan to draw forces down to only two ground brigades has…
Michael Chung
Cross-cultural awareness is especially important in a complex, globalized environment. Because each culture has different priorities in its basic values and beliefs, collisions can occur.
This AY-09 USAWC Resident Student…
Gregory Wilcoxon
In an environment in which the United States is the dominant conventional military power, many theorists argue that future wars will be unbalanced or asymmetrical. This USAWC AY-10 resident student…
Linwood Ham
Brazilian military dictatorships of 1964-1985 established national security strategies principally to modernize the country and populate the vast central and western areas of Brazil.
This USAWC resident student paper analyzes…
John Blankenbaker
This Ay 2009 USWAC resident student paper explores the U.S. and Mexico relationship. The author argues that while that relationship has significantly improved over the past few years, the U.S…
Naushad Kayani
Iran is currently viewed by the US as a source of instability within the Persian Gulf region. The recent emergence of a more strident Iranian government, apparently pursuing the acquisition…
Michel Duhamel
The Caribbean island of Hispaniola is host to two countries which stand-out because despite their geographic proximity the Dominican Republic and Haiti have evolved and occupy widely different tiers of…
Mark A Burrough
This USAWC AY09 resident course Strategy Research Project (SRP) paper examines the successes and failures of U.S. strategy and policy as related to the changing global and regional context of…
Bernie McMahon
In 1973 Horst Rittel and Melvin Webber in a seminal article, described a new form of problems as wicked and called for a new approach and understanding to solve these…
Eugene McFeely
Airpower, an important instrument in the tool kit of a Combatant Commander, may be used in both a kinetic and non-kinetic manner. In Afghanistan, where operations are spread across a…
Dennis Murphy
Insurgent use of information as an asymmetric strategic means has been extremely effective. If the United States military hopes to fight and win in a future information environment it must…
Kurt Ryan
In 2009, U.S. troop commitments are increasing in Afghanistan, complicating the ability to deploy and sustain forces operating in the region. To deploy and sustain up to sixty-thousand U.S. forces…
Donald C Bolduc
Darryl S Shaw
In the last century, the United States was protected from a direct physical attack by its adversaries due to its geographic isolation. However, today any adversary with sufficient capability can…
John R Chavez
While substantial effort has been and continues to be expended in developing the theories governing the conduct of war, not as much comparative effort has been given to addressing the…
This book is a guide to landscape sketching and provides practical tips and techniques for creating sketches. It is a valuable resource for artists, amateur and professional, and those interested…
Moo Bong Ryoo
The Korean War Armistice Agreement (KWAA) was signed on 27 July 1953 between the military commanders of the United Nations Command, the Chinese People’s Volunteer Army, and the Korean People’s…
James H Herrera
This AY-09 USAWC Resident Student paper examines peace at the individual, collective, and inter-collective levels. It does so by addressing three central questions: first, how is peace defined and what…
Jeffrey L Groh
The U.S. Army War College is pleased to present this anthology of selected student work from Academic Year 2011 representing examples of well-written and in-depth analyses on the vital subject…
Michael J Hartig
Since the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Field Artillery branch, more than any other branch in today’s Army, has been asked to conduct in-lieu-of missions rather than its core…
Richard D Creed
The U.S. Army heavy conventional ground capability that crushed Iraqi forces in 1991 and 2003 no longer exists, and further reduction of Heavy Brigade Combat Teams are proposed based upon…
Leslie F Brown
This strategy research project defines hybrid threats, examines the emergence of hybrid warfare, postulates reasons why hybrid warfare will be the dominant form of warfare that most sovereigns will apply…
James J Learmont
The United Kingdom Strategic Defense and Security Review published its findings on 20 October 2010. The central tenet of this review is that hybrid conflict, as seen most recently in…
James F Harp
The ‘hybrid’ theory of war set forth in this document is the result of combining the best aspects of existing war theories with the unique influences of the current strategic…
Edward J O'Neill
This U.S. Army War College student author believes that a strategic stationing plan for existing THAAD and JLENS missile defense assets must be developed concurrent with acquisition of new air…
Karlyna L Anderson
The concept of the responsibility to protect not only the peoples of one’s own state but also those people of another sovereign state should that state fail to protect its…
Lee E Hansen
Recent studies indicate that both states and warlords have been mining minerals to finance armed movements. This US Army War College student author explores the potential impact that gold, diamonds…
Scott F Romans
The United States has maintained a stockpile of strategic and critical materials, primarily ores and minerals, since 1939. Since the end of the Cold War, the United States government has…
Richard G Zoller
This AY2010 U.S. Army War College student author analyzes two cases of purported cyberattacks by Russia in 2007 and 2008. Although subsequent investigations were inconclusive, the cyberattacks were widely believed…
Jeffrey C Powell
The President, Secretary of Defense and the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff routinely publish strategic guidance in the form of the National Security Strategy, National Military Strategy, National Defense Strategy…
J Arthur Hagler
This AY2010 USAWC student research paper explores the impact of ongoing deficit spending in terms of future defense budgets, investor confidence and interest rates, the economic impact of competition for…
Howard E Arey
This AY-10 student research paper argues that the U.S. should adopt a grand strategy of economic renewal. The author believes that by taking steps to reduce its debt and leading…
John P Caraway
This AY-10 student research paper discusses the strategic significance of dealing effectively with the American debt and deficit, by first describing the background of our current government approach to the…
James B Zientek
The State Partnership Program, a National Guard supported initiative, is one of the many Theater Security Cooperation programs available that the six Geographic Combatant Commanders use to meet their objectives…
John E Leatherman
This US Army War College student author examines General Abrams’ ethical leadership at all levels of the Army. He concludes that Abrams’ ethical leadership was instrumental in the Army’s successful…
Raymond H Willcocks
This US Army War College student author looks closely at the events, doctrine, and technical developments of World War II that led to the destruction by area bombing of the…
Jeffery R Schilling
In February 2009, the Obama Administration commissioned a 60-day review of the United States’ cyber security. A near-term action recommended by the 60-day review was to prepare an updated national…
Donald H Myers
During the past sixty years, the People’s Republic of China has watched the pendulum of post-communist victory swing from a period marked by extreme hardship to a period marked by…
