Prevailing in a well-armed world: Devising competitive strategies against weapons proliferation

Henry D. Sokolski

Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College

U.S. Army War College guide to strategy

Education & Teaching

Joseph R. Cerami

Higher & Continuing Education

Transnational threats: Blending law enforcement and military strategies

Carolyn Pumphrey

Criminal Law

Since the mid-1990s, the concept of strategic asymmetry has begun to receive serious attention from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). The 1997 Quadrennial Defense Review, for instance, stated, "U.S. dominance in the conventional military arena may encourage adversaries to use . . . asymmetric means to attack our forces and interests overseas and Americans at home." But while American strategists and defense leaders sense the importance of strategy asymmetry, much analytical work remains to be done before it is fully understood. To help with this process, the Strategic Studies Institute has begun a Special Series on Strategic Asymmetry. The study that follows-Preparing for Asymmetry by Melissa Applegate-is the first of these. In it, the author assesses the revisions to Joint Vision 2020, DoD's roadmap to the future, that must be undertaken in order to prepare for asymmetric challenges.

Preparing for asymmetry: As seen through the lens of Joint Vision 2020 (Studies in asymmetry)

Applegate, Melissa A

The costs of conflict: The impact on China of a future war

Andrew Scobell

The past as prologue?: A history of U.S. counterinsurgency policy in Colombia, 1958-66 (Implementing Plan Colombia special series)

Rempe, Dennis M

Global political violence is clashing with global economic integration. More often than not, the causes and consequences of the resultant instabilities tend to be exploited by such destabilizers as rogue states, sub-state and transnational political actors, insurgents, illegal drug traffickers, organized criminals, warlords, ethnic cleansers, militant fundamentalists, and 1,000 other .snakes with a cause..and the will to conduct terrorist and other asymmetric warfare. The intent is to impose self-determined desires for .change. on a society, nation-state, and/or other perceived symbols of power in the global community.and, perhaps, revert to the questionable glories of the 12th century. In these conditions.exacerbated by the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, and by the devastating U.S.-led attacks on Afghanistan subsequently-the United States has little choice but to reexamine and rethink national and global stability and security-and a peaceful and more prosperous tomorrow. To help civilian and military leaders to come to grips analytically with the implications of the realities of the contemporary global security environment, the author attempts several things. First, he outlines the violent characteristics of the new security arena. Second, he briefly examines the relationship of the central strategic problems in the contemporary environment-terrorism and governance. Third, he describes the complex threat situation. Fourth, he presents a basic outline for a reasoned multidimensional political-economic-stability capability-building response to these problems. Finally, he enumerates some civil-military implications for playing effectively in the global security arena. His recommendations focus on implications for the military in general and the U.S. Army in particular.

The inescapable global security arena

Politics & Social Sciences

Manwaring, Max G.

Politics & Government

The United States was thrust so suddenly into the war on terrorism that it was forced to deal with both immediate operational issues and broad strategic questions simultaneously. Even while the American military is consolidating battlefield success in Afghanistan, strategic thinkers and leaders are developing a long-term strategy. In this process, nothing is more important than defining victory. In this monograph, Dr. Colin Gray, one of the world's leading strategic thinkers, explores the concept of victory in the war in terrorism, but he does so by placing it within the larger currents of change that are sweeping the global security environment. He contends that the time-tested idea of decisive victory is still an important one, but must be designed very carefully in this dangerous new world. To do so correctly can provide the foundation for an effective strategy. To fail to do so could be the first step toward strategic defeat.

Defining and achieving decisive victory

Gray, Colin S.

Tweaking NATO: The Case for Integrated Multinational Divisions

Tweaking NATO: The case for integrated multinational divisions

Millen, Raymond A.

<p>The tenor of U.S.-China relations for much of the first year of the administration of President George W. Bush was set by a crisis that need not have occurred. How the situation was handled and eventually resolved is instructive. It tells us about a beleaguered communist leadership in the buildup to major generational transition (scheduled for late 2002 and early 2003) and the mettle of a democratically elected U.S. government tested early in its tenure by a series of foreign policy crises and a carefully coordinated set of devastating terrorist strikes against the continental United States. The way the April 2001 crisis on Hainan Island was resolved must be chalked up as a success for the United States. the key was Washington's ability to convince Beijing that holding the air crew was hurting, and not advancing, Chinese interests.</p>

China's growing military power: Perspectives on security, ballistic missiles, and conventional capabilities

Scobell, Andrew - Wortzel, Larry M. - Army War College (U.S.)

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