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Lessons from U.S. Allies in Security Cooperation with Third Countries

The Cases of Australia, France, and the United Kingdom

by Jennifer D. P. Moroney, Celeste Ward Gventer, Stephanie Pezard
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011

Several key U.S. allies engage in security cooperation, albeit on a smaller scale than the United States. To see what the U.S. Air Force can learn from these efforts, the authors examined how and why three allies--Australia, France, and the United Kingdom--provide security cooperation and highlight three...

The Posture Triangle

A New Framework for U.S. Air Force Global Presence

by Stacie L. Pettyjohn, Alan J. Vick
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013

U.S. Air Force (USAF) global posture—its overseas forces, facilities, and arrangements with partner nations—faces a variety of fiscal, political, and military challenges. This report seeks to identify why the USAF needs a global posture, where it needs basing and access, the types of security...

U.S. Overseas Military Presence

What Are the Strategic Choices?

by Lynn E. Davis, Stacie L. Pettyjohn, Melanie W. Sisson
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012

The role of the United States and its global military presence are under debate in the face of changing strategic and economic realities. The authors present a menu of global postures and compare them in terms of the U.S. Air Force bases, combat forces, active-duty personnel, and base operating costs....

Denying Flight

Strategic Options for Employing No-Fly Zones

by Karl P. Mueller
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013

In the past two decades, the U.S. Air Force has participated in three contingencies involving no-fly zones (NFZs) over Bosnia, Iraq, and Libya, and NFZ proposals have been proffered for some time as an option for intervention in the Syrian civil war that would avoid placing Western troops on the ground....

America's Security Deficit

Addressing the Imbalance Between Strategy and Resources in a Turbulent World: Strategic Rethink

by David Ochmanek, Andrew R. Hoehn, James T. Quinlivan
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015

This report analyzes defense options available to the United States in responding to current and emerging threats to U.S. security and interests in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. It focuses on ways that the United States might adapt military instruments to meet these emerging challenges, assessing in broad terms the cost of defense investments commensurate with the interests at stake.

Band of Brothers or Dysfunctional Family?

A Military Perspective on Coalition Challenges During Stability Operations

by Russell W. Glenn
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011

During stability operations, coalitions must incorporate participation by government agencies other than the military, the indigenous government, and its population more than is expected during conventional combat operations. This book investigates challenges confronting coalitions today and considers...

The Global Technology Revolution 2020, Executive Summary

Bio/Nano/Materials/Information Trends, Drivers, Barriers, and Social Implications

by Richard Silberglitt, Philip S. Anton, David R. Howell
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2006

In 2020, areas of particular importance for technology trends will include biotechnology, nanotechnology, materials technology, and information technology. The authors of this report assessed a sample of 29 countries across the spectrum of scientific advancement (low to high) with respect to their...
by Scott Hassell, Noreen Clancy, Nicholas Burger
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010

This report addresses the conceptual basis, design, and implementation of the National Environmental Performance Track program. The voluntary program sought to encourage facilities to improve their environmental performance and provide a more collaborative relationship between facilities and regulators....

Considering the Creation of a Domestic Intelligence Agency in the United States

Lessons from the Experiences of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom

by Brian A. Jackson, Cheryl Y. Marcum, Albert A. Robbert
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009

With terrorism still prominent on the U.S. agenda, whether the country's prevention efforts match the threat the United States faces continues to be central in policy debate. One element of this debate is questioning whether the United States should create a dedicated domestic intelligence agency....

China's International Behavior

Activism, Opportunism, and Diversification

by Evan S. Medeiros
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2009

China is now a global actor of significant and growing importance. It is involved in regions and on issues that were once only peripheral to its interests, and it is effectively using tools previously unavailable. China's international behavior is clearly altering the dynamics of the current international...

Afghanistan's Local War

Building Local Defense Forces

by Seth G. Jones, Arturo Munoz
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010

In Afghanistan, local communities have played a critical role in security, especially in rural areas. Afghan national security forces are important to the top-down strategy, but the Afghan government and NATO forces also need to leverage local communities to gain a complementary bottom-up strategy....

NATO's Air War for Kosovo

A Strategic and Operational Assessment

by Benjamin S. Lambeth
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2001

This book offers a thorough appraisal of Operation Allied Force, NATO's 78-day air war to compel the president of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic, to end his campaign of ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. The author sheds light both on the operation's strengths and on its most salient weaknesses. He outlines...

Blinders, Blunders, and Wars

What America and China Can Learn

by David C. Gompert, Hans Binnendijk, Bonny Lin
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014

The history of wars caused by misjudgments, from Napoleon’s invasion of Russia to America’s invasion of Iraq, reveals that leaders relied on cognitive models that were seriously at odds with objective reality. Blinders, Blunders, and Wars analyzes eight historical examples of strategic blunders...
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...
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