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by Michael S. Chase, Arthur Chan
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016

Drawing on Chinese military writings, this report finds that China’s strategic-deterrence concepts are evolving in response to Beijing’s changing assessment of its external security environment and a growing emphasis on protecting its emerging interests in space and cyberspace. China also is rapidly...
by Seth G. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011

Examines reintegrating Taliban and other insurgents into their local communities in Afghanistan and outlines steps to facilitate that reintegration process. The author discusses the factors that increase the likelihood of reintegrating fighters and the key options for fighters as they consider reintegration....

How Terrorist Groups End

Lessons for Countering al Qa'ida

by Seth G. Jones, Martin C. Libicki
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008

All terrorist groups eventually end. But how do they end? The evidence since 1968 indicates that most groups have ended because (1) they joined the political process (43 percent) or (2) local police and intelligence agencies arrested or killed key members (40 percent). Military force has rarely been...

Security Force Assistance in Afghanistan

Identifying Lessons for Future Efforts

by Terrence K. Kelly, Nora Bensahel, Olga Oliker
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011

Security force assistance (SFA) is a central pillar of the counterinsurgency campaign being waged by U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan. This monograph analyzes SFA efforts in Afghanistan over time, documents U.S. and international approaches to building the Afghan force from 2001 to 2009, and...

Iran After the Bomb

How Would a Nuclear-Armed Tehran Behave?

by Alireza Nader
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013

This study explores how a nuclear-armed Iran would behave and what this would entail for the United States and its main regional allies. It analyzes the Islamic Republic's ideology, motivations, and national security doctrine; examines a nuclear-armed Iran's potential policies toward Saudi Arabia and...

Security in Iraq

A Framework for Analyzing Emerging Threats as U.S. Forces Leave

by David C. Gompert, Terrence K. Kelly, Jessica Watkins
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010

U.S. withdrawal could affect Iraq's internal security and stability, which could, in turn, affect U.S. strategic interests and the safety of U.S. troops and civilians in Iraq. U.S. policy-makers need a dynamic analytic framework with which to examine the shifting motivations and capabilities of the...

Iran’s Influence in Afghanistan

Implications for the U.S. Drawdown

by Alireza Nader, Ali G. Scotten, Ahmad Idrees Rahmani
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014

This study explores Iranian influence in Afghanistan and the implications for the United States after most U.S. forces depart Afghanistan in 2016. Iran has substantial economic, political, cultural, and religious leverage in Afghanistan. Although Iran will attempt to shape a post-2014 Afghanistan,...
by Sara Beth Elson, Douglas Yeung, Parisa Roshan
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012

In the months after the contested Iranian presidential election in June 2009, Iranians spoke out about the election using Twitter--a social media service that allows users to send short text messages, called tweets, with relative anonymity. This research analyzed more than 2.5 million tweets discussing...
by Jeffrey Martini, Becca Wasser, Dalia Dassa Kaye
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016

This report examines what binds and divides the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states—Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates—and presents the outlook for the GCC’s evolution over the next ten years. The study aims to help policymakers better understand intra-GCC...
by F. Stephen Larrabee, Alireza Nader
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013

Turkey and Iran tend to be rivals rather than close partners, despite sharing certain economic and security interests. For instance, Turkey supports the opposition in Syria, while Iran supports the regime. Turkey is further concerned about a possible nuclear arms race in the Middle East. U.S. and Turkish...

Hard Fighting

Israel in Lebanon and Gaza

by David E. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011

Like Israel in 2006, the United States today is likely ill prepared for hybrid warfare. To identify lessons that the U.S. military might learn from the Israeli experience in Lebanon, the author examines the state of the Israeli military before the Second Lebanon War, the lessons it learned during that...

Learning Large Lessons

The Evolving Roles of Ground Power and Air Power in the Post-Cold War Era

by David E. Johnson, David E. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2007

The relative roles of U.S. ground and air power have shifted since the end of the Cold War. At the level of major operations and campaigns, the Air Force has proved capable of and committed to performing deep strike operations, which the Army long had believed the Air Force could not reliably accomplish....

U.S. Military Information Operations in Afghanistan

Effectiveness of Psychological Operations 2001-2010

by Arturo Munoz
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012

The U.S. Marine Corps, which has long recognized the importance of influencing the civilian population in a counterinsurgency environment, requested an evaluation of the effectiveness of the psychological operations element of U.S. military information operations in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2010 based...

Invisible Women

Junior Enlisted Army Wives

by Margaret C. Harrell
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2001

Military manpower policy is often crafted by policymakers without an in-depth understanding of the life experiences and views of junior enlisted personnel. It is plausible to expect that some policymakers attribute the attitudes and experiences of these young soldiers to such features as youth or...
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