Strategic Studies Institute

All Publications By Date

21 Publications Found in 2012

Added May 15, 2012

Type: Article

Colloquium Brief: Learning By Doing: The PLA Trains at Home and Abroad

Authored by Anton Wishik II.

Added May 10, 2012

Type: Book

Disjointed Ways, Disunified Means: Learning from America's Struggle to Build an Afghan Nation

Authored by Colonel Lewis G. Irwin.

Remarkably ambitious in its audacity and scope, NATO’s irregular warfare and nation-building mission in Afghanistan has struggled to meet its nonmilitary objectives by most tangible measures. This book explores shortfalls in the U.S. Government’s strategic planning processes and the mechanisms for interagency coordination of effort that have contributed to this situation, as well as reforms needed to meet emerging 21st century national security challenges.

Added May 03, 2012

Type: Article

Op-Ed: Where Do We Go From Here?¹

Authored by COL Louis H. Jordan, Jr.

Added May 01, 2012

Type: Monograph

Lessons of the Iraqi De-Ba'athification Program for Iraq's Future and the Arab Revolutions

Authored by Dr. W. Andrew Terrill.

This monograph considers both the future of Iraq and the differences and similarities between events in Iraq and the Arab Spring states. Serious and expanding mistakes by new governments are possible in the aftermath of the Arab Spring revolutions, and any lessons that can be gleaned from earlier conflicts will be of considerable value to those nations. Moreover, U.S. Army officers and senior noncommissioned officers (NCOs) may often have unique opportunities and unique credibility to offer advice on the lessons of Iraq to their counterparts in some of the Arab Spring nations.

Added April 27, 2012

Type: Monograph

Ambassador Stephen Krasner's Orienting Principle for Foreign Policy (and Military Management)—Responsible Sovereignty

Authored by Dr. Max G. Manwaring.

This monograph takes the logic of the contemporary security dilemma to another level. The intent is to operationalize and elaborate Ambassador Stephen Krasner’s "Responsible Sovereignty" orienting principle for foreign policy and military management.

Added April 25, 2012

Type: Monograph

Enabling Unity of Effort in Homeland Response Operations

Authored by Lieutenant General (Ret.) H Steven Blum, Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Kerry McIntyre.

The authors assert that attaining unity of effort is the fundamental prerequisite for effective homeland response operations. They conclude that the best way to improve unity of effort is to create a dynamic system for producing, validating, and updating a unifying national homeland response doctrine.

Added April 19, 2012

Type: Monograph

Drug Trafficking, Violence, and Instability

Authored by Dr. Phil Williams, Dr. Vanda Felbab-Brown.

The world of armed groups has changed and is continuing to change. What impact will these changes have on the threats and challenges to national and global security in the world today? This monograph focuses on the complex relationship between human security, crime, illicit economies, and law enforcement. It also seeks to disentangle the linkages between insurgency on the one hand and drug trafficking and organized crime on the other, suggesting that criminal activities help sustain an insurgency, but also carry certain risks for the insurgency.

Added April 17, 2012

Type: Book

Conflict Management and "Whole of Government": Useful Tools for U.S. National Security Strategy?

Edited by Dr. Volker C. Franke, Dr. Robert H. Dorff.

Intended to facilitate dialogue between academic experts, military leaders, policymakers, and civilian practitioners, this edited volume provides a state of the art analysis of current whole of government (WoG) approaches and their effectiveness for coordinating stabilization and peacebuilding efforts. It explores the question: Can “smart power”—using the right tool for each operational context—successfully shift the burden of stability operations to civilian actors and enable the timely scaling-down of military deployments?

Added April 12, 2012

Type: Book

Tactical Nuclear Weapons and NATO

Edited by Dr. Tom Nichols, Dr. Douglas Stuart, Dr. Jeffrey D. McCausland.

What is the role that tactical or non-strategic nuclear weapons (NSNWs) play in NATO defense policy and strategy? This book examines the key issues surrounding this question as the Alliance seeks to redefine itself in the 21st century and meet the requirements in the Defense and Deterrence Policy Review.

Added April 09, 2012

Type: Article

Op-Ed: Heading Toward the NATO Summit

Authored by Dr. Jeffrey D. McCausland.

Added March 29, 2012

Type: Book

Project on National Security Reform - Vol. 2: Case Studies Working Group Report

Authored by Dr. Richard Weitz.

The case studies in this volume confirm that flawed responses recur in issue areas as diverse as biodefense, public diplomacy, and military intervention as well as across presidential administrations. The piecemeal national security organizational reforms enacted to date have not fostered improved policy outcomes or decisionmaking, while capability building, especially in the civilian national security agencies, remains less than optimal.

Added March 14, 2012

Type: Monograph

Delegitimizing Al-Qaeda: A Jihad-Realist Approach

Authored by Dr. Paul Kamolnick.

Preventing radicalization and recruitment to al-Qaeda’s terrorism is vital to U.S. national security. This monograph suggests a distinct “jihad-realist” approach for partially accomplishing this elusive strategic objective.

Added March 06, 2012

Type: Article

The Impact of Visual Images: Addendum

Authored by Dr. Cori E. Dauber.

Added March 04, 2012

Type: Article

Op-Ed: Zen and the Art of Social Selfishness

Authored by COL Louis H. Jordan, Jr.

Added February 24, 2012

Type: Monograph

Categorical Confusion? The Strategic Implications of Recognizing Challenges Either as Irregular or Traditional

Authored by Dr. Colin S. Gray.

"First, do no harm" is a golden rule for both medicine and strategic theory. Challenges to national security are simply challenges, they are neither irregular nor traditional.

Added February 23, 2012

Type: Article

Busting the Myths About the North Korea Problem

Authored by Dr. David Lai.

Added February 08, 2012

Type: Monograph

Once Again, the Challenge to the U.S. Army During a Defense Reduction: To Remain a Military Profession

Authored by Dr. Don M. Snider.

The exact shape of the recently initiated Department of Defense reductions and the defense strategy that our down-sized land forces are to execute in the future are only now becoming clear. How can the U.S. Army best meet these challenges?

Added February 06, 2012

Type: Article

Op-Ed: Weekend at Osama's

Authored by Dr. Cori E. Dauber.

Added January 24, 2012

Type: Article

The Importance of Images to America's Fight Against Violent Jihadism

Authored by Dr. Cori E. Dauber.

Added January 11, 2012

Type: Article

Preserving U.S. National Security Interests Through a Liberal World Construct

Authored by LTC Kevin Fujimoto.

Added January 09, 2012

Type: Article

Op-Ed: The Technology Avalanche and the Future of War

Authored by COL Phillip R. Cuccia.

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