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MAGAZINE

January–February 2014 “Air and Space Power Journal” issue is now available for downloading from the Air University website

 Please take a moment to visit us at http://www.airpower.au.af.mil/. We appreciate your patience and hope that you enjoy the issue.

In this issue. . . . 

General Mark A. Welsh III, USAF
General Hawk Carlisle, USAF

Maj Gen Kenneth S. Wilsbach, USAF
Lt Col David J. Lyle, USAF


Capt Adam B. Young, USAF


Lt Col Aaron D. Burgstein, USAF

Capt Albert C. Harris III, USAF

LTC Kelvin Mote, USA
The Editor 
Air and Space Power Journal 

Air, Space Power Journal, November-December 2013, v. 27, no. 6
http://www.au.af.mil/au/audocs/ASPJ-Nov-Dec-2013.pdf
  • Search and Rescue in the High North: An Air Force Mission?
  • Cyberspace Superiority: A Conceptual Model
  • A Strategic Assessment of Infrastructure Asset-Management Modeling
  • Who's in Charge? Commander, Air Force Forces or Air Force Commander?
  • Deployed Communications in an Austere Environment: A Delphi Study
  • Missile-Warning Augmentation: A Low-Risk Approach
Combating Terrorism Exchange (CTX), November 2013, v. 3, no. 4 
https://globalecco.org/documents/10180/507287/CTXVol3No4.pdf
  • Protecting Soft Networks: Time to Counter the Enemy’s Logical Strategy
  • The Ideologies of Anti-Technology Violence
  • De-radicalizing Muslim Youth in Western Societies
  • The Role of Medical Development in Support of Security
  • The Challenge of Combat Search and Rescue for Colombian National Army Aviation
  • The Future of SOF Education: A Vision for Global Special Forces Education
  • The Haqqani Network: Pursuing Feuds under the Guise of Jihad?
  • To Pay or Not to Pay: Criminal Extortion from a Game Theory Perspective
  • CTAP INTERVIEW - COL Billy Shaw, U.S. Army Special Forces, with Doug Borer
  • Kill v. Capture—With a Twist
  • The Wildest Province: SOE in the Land of the Eagle
  • The Deceptive American

IPCS SPECIAL FOCUS
Year in Review
IPCS DEBATE
China and Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ)
Center for Terrorism and Security Studies

Perspectives on Terrorism, December 2013, v. 7, no. 6
  • Media Metrics: How Arab and Western Media Construct Success and Failure in the ‘Global War on Terror’ 
  • Sri Lanka’s Post-Conflict Strategy: Restorative Justice for Rebels and Rebuilding of Conflict-affected Communities
  • Salafi Violence and Sufi Tolerance? Rethinking Conventional Wisdom
  • Simultaneous Attacks by Terrorist Organisations
  • Al-Shabaab’s Somali Safe Havens: A Springboard for Terror
  • Rethinking International Counterterrorism Assistance to the Greater Horn of Africa: Toward a Regional Risk Reduction Strategy
  • Research Note on the Energy Infrastructure Attack Database (EIAD)
  • Risks of Terrorism, Homicide and Illness: a Methodological Consideration
  • Literature on the Conflict in Syria (2011 – November 2013)
  • Selected Dissertations and Theses on Terrorism, Counterterrorism and Political Violence, 1980 – 2013 

Parameters, Winter 2013-14



Special Commentary
American Power in Transition
Fighting Irregular Fighters
Conflict by Other Means
Preparing for Netwars
Of Note


INDIA

The Tactical Reach and Requirement of the Indian Navy 

State of India’s Cities and Towns—A Book of Charts on the NCT Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Mizoram 

Construction Finishing of Likely New Indian Centrifuge Facility at Rare Materials Plant 

India and Asian Geopolitics

India Should Rebalance Regional Focus 

India’s Policy Objectives in Afghanistan 

India and China—Exploring Partnership in Afghanistan


IDSA COMMENT

Analysis
Manoj Joshi

IDSA COMMENT

ISSUE BRIEF


Shyam Saran

PRAVEEN SWAMI



by Toral Varia

by Howard Schultz and Miles White

Issue Net Edition

IDSA COMMENT

Ravi Joshi

Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan



Wajahat Habibullah



 AFPAK

Sources of Tension in Afghanistan & Pakistan: Perspectives from the Region in 2013: 3. India 

Islam, Jamhooriyat and Pakistan (Islam, Democracy and Pakistan)

Pakistan’s New Taliban Challenge

China’s Reactor Sale to Pakistan: The Known Unknowns 

Pakistan's Strategic Agenda and Security Policy

Pakistan's Security Today and Tomorrow: Highlights from the Conference 22-23 January 2009, Ottawa 

Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS)

Conflict & Peace Studies, Spring 2013, v. 5, no. 1 http://san-pips.com/download.php?f=250.pdf
  • Afghanistan and Pakistan: A Common Security Perspective 
  • Pak-Iran Relations: Views of Political and Religious Parties and Militant Groups
  • Anti-Americanism Deconstructed
  • Culture of Violence versus Culture of Silence
  • The Role of Religious Scholars in Counter-Radicalization
  • Evolution of Militant Groups in Pakistan (3)

Afghanistan: Future Scenarios 

Pakistan's Illegal Nuclear Procurement Exposed in 1987
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nukevault/ebb446/

Charting the Data for US Airstrikes in Pakistan, 2004 - 2013 [updated November 22, 2013] 


 Further Construction Progress on the Fourth Heavy Water Reactor at Khushab Nuclear Site http://isis-online.org/uploads/isis-reports/documents/Khushab_November_2013.pdf

Counterinsurgency, Local Militias, and Statebuilding in Afghanistan 

United States Should Include Pakistan in its Rebalance Policy Toward Asia, Argues CFR Special Report

Afghanistan: Can India and Pakistan work Together?

Post 2014 Afghanistan: India’s Interests and Concerns

Grabbing the Wolf's Tail

Keep Foreign Troops in Afghanistan

The Looming Narco-State in Afghanistan

Karzai's Future and the Afghan Elections

Al-Qaeda has no future in the Arab world

Was our Afghan saga useless – or worse?
DOUG SAUNDERS
The Globe and Mail

Pakistan 2013: Civil-Military Relations
YEAR IN REVIEW

Real Assumptions for the Way Forward in Afghanistan

Afghanistan: The Desert of Death

Assisting Afghanistan Militarily

Murder on the Roof of the World

Making sense of the Kishenganga final award
Bharat H Desai and Balraj K Sigh

AFPAK TO APAC HANDS: LESSONS LEARNED

Imran Khan, a Pakistani provincial leader, complicates NATO plans for Afghanistan

The intelligence assessment is too pessimistic about Afghanistan
By Michael O’Hanlon

Afghanistan after the US drawdown
by Daveed Gartenstein Ros

Afghanistan gains will be lost quickly after drawdown, U.S. intelligence estimate warns
By Ernesto Londoรฑo, Karen DeYoung and Greg Miller, 

Brookings Institute Analyst Says New CIA Intelligence Estimate on Afghanistan Is Wrong

Afghanistan-Pakistan: The Covert War
By Umar Farooq

By DAVEED GARTENSTEIN-ROSS 

Afghanistan: Security Trends and Implications for India



CHINA

China’s Strategic Capabilities and Intent 
http://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/2013/pdf/IB4111.pdf

*** Balancing Without Containment: An American Strategy for Managing China

2013 Annual Report to Congress
November 20, 2013
Report PDFs: 
Chapters: 


China Brief, November 7, 2013, v. 13, no. 22 
http://www.jamestown.org/uploads/media/China_Brief_Vol_13_Issue_22_.pdf

  • Diplomacy Work Forum: Xi Steps Up Efforts to Shape a China-Centered Regional Order
  • Hunting Season for Multinationals in China?
  • Moscow Talks Business, Beijing Answers with Geo-strategy
  • Mixed Views of China’s “One Size Fits All” Trade Diplomacy in Central Asia

Chinese Intrusions Across the LAC 
http://idsa.in/system/files/IB_Chineseintrusion.pdf

Taking Stock of Chinese Leader Xi Jinping’s One Year Rule 

China Brief, December 5, 2013, v. 13, no. 24 

  • East China Sea Air Defense Moves: What for and Why Now?
  • Philippine Military Modernization More Urgent and Less Likely after Hurricane
  • China’s East China Sea ADIZ: Framing Japan to Help Washington Understand
  • AirSea Battle and ADIZ: A Reaction to a Reaction
  • Critical Node: Taiwan’s Cyber Defense and Chinese Cyber-Espionage
  • Ending the Sino-Mongolia Chill


  • Taiwan Trade Agreements with Singapore, Japan, Should Calm Fears of PRC Economic Domination
  • Major Party Meeting Calls for PLA Reform and Restructuring
  • Xi’s Power Grab Towers Over Market Reform
  • Economic Reform in the Third Plenum: Balancing State and Market
  • Firm Warning, Light Consequences: China’s DPRK Policy Upholds Status Quo
  • China’s New Exit-Entry Law: Strike Hard Against Immigration


China and the Arctic: China's Interests and Participation in the Region 
http://www.cigionline.org/publications/2013/11/china-and-arctic-chinas-interests-and-participation-region






S ASIA

Stability and Growth in South Asia
Editor
2013
Publisher: Pantagon Press
ISBN 978-81-8274-748-7
Price: Rs.995/- [Download Now]

Preventing Nuclear War in South Asia: Unprecedented Challenges, Unprecedented Solutions 
http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/files/pre


Combating Islamism in South Asia: Keeping Bangladesh on the Democratic Path 
http://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/2013/pdf/BG2870.pdf

Iran, Afghanistan, and South Asia—Resolving Regional Sources of Instability
http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/images/publications/IAS_Resolving_Regional_Sources_of_Instability_web.pdf

Ethnic Conflict in Burma/Myanmar: From Aspirations to Solutions 
http://www.tni.org/sites/www.tni.org/files/download/seminarbangkok112013_web_0.pdf


Myanmar Stumbles on Press Freedom
By Bridget Di Certo

Expanse of Federalism: South Asia Sui Generis?
IPCS DEBATE, D Suba Chandran,  Director, IPCS 

Japan: Death by Demographics?

Northeast 2013: A Year of Peace and Violence
YEAR IN REVIEW

South Korea Calling India
By Sreeram Chaulia

North East Asia Strategically Notices India
By Dr Subhash Kapila

Stirring the pot
DELHI

Out With a Whimper

Bangladesh under Siege
By Bhaskar Roy

Bangladesh Elections 2013: Fate of a Nation
Chiranjib Haldar 

A Troubling Turn for the Worse in Bangladesh

For Bangladesh, Elections Bring Little Relief

South Asia: 2013
N Sathiya Moorthy

Maldives: President Yameen: Problems being faced in settling down
By Dr. S. Chandrasekharan

A Year-end Security Review of Southern Asia

How to Prevent a War Between China and Japan
By Kishore Mahbubani

Bangladesh Liberation 1971: Recalling United States and China’s Record
By Dr. Subhash Kapila

China adapts to new Myanmar reality
By Yun Sun 

Nepal: Parties Back to their Old Ways Despite a Fresh Mandate: Update No. 290
By Dr. S.Chandrasekharan



Terror in Burma: Buddhists vs. Muslims

Burma's Senseless Census

Sorry Bangladesh…..Once Again
Raza Habib Raja

ASEAN

The ASEAN Economic Community: A Work in Progress
 http://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/pub/2013/aec-work-progress.pdf

Border Roads Organisation in the North-East: Need for Priority 
http://idsa.in/system/files/gsen_161213.pdf

Japan is Back: Unbundling Abe’s Grand Strategy


North East Asia Strategically Notices India

Easing China's One-Child Policy Won't Stop Demographic Decline

Southeast Asia: 10 Trends to Watch For in 2014
By Prashanth Parameswaran

South China Sea and ASEAN Chairmanship
By Dr. Subhash Kapila

Democracy in Peril in Asia

Russia and China Headed for an Inevitable Geopolitical Clash
By Dr Subhash Kapila

Why is Thailand's democracy so dysfunctional? Blame the king.

The Year of the Horse

Japan as a Unique Bulwark to Chinese Hegemony in Asia

The awkward state of U.S.-China relations
By Nina Hachigian

South China Sea and The United States
By Dr Subhash Kapila

India's Newly Aspirational Classes Change Stakes for 2014 Elections

Kerry’s Return to Vietnam Is All About Blocking China

EUROPE

The Thawing Arctic: Risks and Opportunities http://www.cfr.org/arctic/thawing-arctic-risks-opportunities/p32082

 Europe's Societal Challenges: An analysis of global societal trends to 2030 and their impact on the EU 
http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR479.html

The FP transcript (Xth and last): What the last 9 segments tell us about the state of the American confrontation with Iran
Source Link
BY THOMAS E. RICKS

Crisis in Ukraine Not the same movie
Source Link

The Fall of France
By Janine di Giovanni
http://www.newsweek.com/fall-france-225368

Why Did Ukraine’s Eurolution Fail?
ByVijai Maheshwari
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/05/why-did-ukraine-s-eurolution-fail.html

Russia and China Headed for an Inevitable Geopolitical Clash
By Dr Subhash Kapila
http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/node/1435

Europe’s Tea Parties
Source Link

Nations vie for clout in Arctic; US far from lead
http://www.stripes.com/nations-vie-for-clout-in-arctic-us-far-from-lead-1.260115
By Deb Riechmann

Sochi Watch: Everything You Need to Know about Russia's Massive Olympic Security Operation
Source Link
BY CATHERINE A. TRAYWICK

Drill Down
Source Link
BY KEITH JOHNSON

Can Europe Frack Itself to Energy Independence?
Source Link
BY KEITH JOHNSON

The Celtic Cougar
Source Link
BY SEAN KAY

The Realist Prism: For U.S., Keeping Ukraine on Side No Longer a Vital Interest
Source Link

Germany Faces Tough Choices on Russia
Source Link
By Stephen Szabo

Garry Kasparov: How Putin's poker game makes fools of the West
Garry Kasparov
http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9099872/the-new-great-game/


ARAB

Iran and The Gulf Military Balance II: The Nuclear and Missile Dimensions http://csis.org/files/publication/131207_gulf_military_balance.pdf


Sunni-Shia Relations After the Iraq War http://www.usip.org/sites/default/files/PB160.pdf
How to Think About the Middle East Before the “Arab Spring” – and After http://www.fpri.org/docs/Garfinkle_-_HI_-_ME_Before_and_After_Arab_Spring.pdf

The Rhyme of History: Lessons from the Great War http://www.brookings.edu/research/essays/2013/rhyme-of-history

The Moscow Riots, Russian Nationalism and the Eurasian Union http://www.iss.europa.eu/uploads/media/Brief_42_Russian_nationalism.pdf

Stratfor By Reva Bhalla

The P5+1 and Iranian Joint Plan of Action on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Nuclear Program: Assessing the Details and Risks

How Spying Props Up the Decaying American Empire


The West's Catastrophic Defeat in the Middle East

The Possibility of Regime Change in the Middle East: The Egyptian, Syrian, Saudi Arabian and Iranian Case Models

The End of Erdogan’s Islamization?

Nuke deal looks better yet for Iran

Mali: Reform or Relapse
Africa Report N°210
The full report is available in French.

*** The Gaza Withdrawal and Israel's Permanent Dilemma
Stratfor
By George Friedman

AFRICA
Africa’s Information Revolution : Implications for Crime, Policing, and Citizen Security 
http://africacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/ARP5-Africas-Information-Revolution1.pdf

Africa’s Rising Exposure to China: How Large Are Spillovers Through Trade?
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2013/wp13250.pdf


What Is Next for Mali? The Roots of Conflict and Challenges to Stability 
http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=1185

These Are the Wars That Will Rage in Africa in 2014
Peter Dรถrrie in War is Boring

Breakdown in South Sudan What Went Wrong -- and How to Fix It

Green Rush

Why Do African States Fail? Don't Blame Neo-Colonialism

We're Not Sending Poor Countries the Stuff They Want



CENTRAL ASIA


Kazakhstan’s National Development Strategies: An Assessment 

Reforming the Police in Post-Soviet States: Georgia and Kyrgyzstan
http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=1184

China vs. Central Asia. The achievements of the past two decades 
http://www.osw.waw.pl/sites/default/files/prace_45_cina_vs_asia_ang-net.pdf


CAR: Back to chaos and lawlessness
Maneo Kayina


USA

Rebalancing the US Army Towards Asia 
http://www.eastwestcenter.org/download/6696/34359/apb244.pdf

Arctic Strategy
http://www.defense.gov/pubs/2013_Arctic_Strategy.pdf

America's Secret War in 134 Countries
Source Link
By Nick Turse

Elections Don't Matter, Institutions Do
By Robert Kaplan
http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2014/01/16/elections_dont_matter_institutions_do.html

U.S. Military Begins Testing ‘Smart’ Rifles
by BRENDAN MCGARRY
http://defensetech.org/2014/01/15/u-s-military-begins-testing-smart-rifles/

Rand Paul Rethinks the Art of Diplomacy
PETER BEINART
Source Link

Elections Don't Matter, Institutions Do
Global Affairs
http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/elections-dont-matter-institutions-do#ixzz2qa9PyHMJ
By Robert D. Kaplan

Why Europe Can't Leave Asia to the U.S.
By Richard Gowan & Hans Kundani
http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2014/01/15/why_europe_cant_leave_asia_to_the_us_110221.html

Nuclear Scholars Initiative
By Sarah Weiner
http://csis.org/files/publication/140109_Weiner_NuclearScholarsInitiative2013_WEB.pdf

Robert Gates' Indictment of Obama's White House
http://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2014/01/08/bob_gates_scathing_indictment_of_obamas_white_house_107021.html

Time for U.S. to focus on Western Sahara
Source Link
By Michael Rubin, Special to CNN

A Safer World, Filled With Nukes
BY KEITH JOHNSON
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/01/08/nukes_everywhere#sthash.dwnyLpqc.dpuf

Strategy 101
Source Link

CULPABLE COMPLACENCY & U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY
http://warontherocks.com/2013/12/culpable-complacency-u-s-national-security-strategy/
Frank Hoffman

ROSY ASSUMPTIONS: U.S. STRATEGY IN AFGHANISTAN POST-2014
Ryan Evans
http://warontherocks.com/2014/01/rosy-assumptions-u-s-strategy-in-afghanistan-post-2014/

Culpable Complacency & U.S. National Security Strategy
Source Link
Frank Hoffman

America to China: Do as We Say...
by Greg Scoblete
Source Link

The Year America’s Post-9/11 Foreign Policy Failed
Source Link
BY DAVID ROTHKOPF

Defining a New Type of Major Country Relationship Between the U.S. and China
Source Link
By Ely Ratner

As Indian Diplomat Exits After Arrest, a Culture Clash Lingers
By ELLEN BARRY and BENJAMIN WEISER
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/11/world/asia/indian-diplomat-flies-home-after-indictment-in-us.html?hp&_r=0

10 Reasons U.S. Influence Has Fallen in the Middle East
By Brian Michael Jenkins
Source Link

The Realpolitik of the American People
Source Link
By Zachary Keck

Chicago and Toronto became safe places. Can other cities?
DOUG SAUNDERS
Source Link

U.S. Strategy in Syria: Having Lost Sight of the Objective…
By Anthony H. Cordesman
http://strategicstudyindia.blogspot.in/2013/09/us-strategy-in-syria-having-lost-sight.html

Opinion: Navy Needs Intellectual Diversity
By: Lt. Alexander P. Smith, USN
http://news.usni.org/2014/01/20/opinion-navy-needs-intellectual-diversity

State of American Energy
READ & DOWNLOAD THE REPORT

Misreading Obama
http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/misreading-obama-9739
David Shorr

The Future of War (III): Some questions for consideration in light of the changes
Source Link
BY THOMAS E. RICKS


ICTEC


The Cyberspace Operations Planner: Challenges to Education and Understanding of Offensive Cyberspace Operations 
http://smallwarsjournal.com/printpdf/14857

White paper: The Intelligence Community’s Role Within U.S. Cyber R&D 
http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/ncrdic-cyber.pdf


U.S. Governmental Information Operations and Strategic Communications: A Discredited Tool or User Failure? Implications for Future Conflict 
http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=1182

 Future Technology Landscapes: Insights, Analysis and Implications for Defence: Case Study Documentation 
http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR478z1.html


NSA Will Keep Breaking Encryption, No Matter What a White House Panel Says

Germany's NSA Naivete

The Cyber Security Challenge

Vietnam's 'Cyber Troops" Take Fight to the U.S. and France

NSA Surveillance Will Change. Just Not Very Much


Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Calls for Greater Transparency at NSA


***Coming next in military tech
Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know
By: P. W. Singer and Allan Friedman
New York: Oxford University Press, 2014

N.S.A. Devises Radio Pathway Into Computers

Why Google Paid Three Billion Dollars for a Thermostat Company

When's the Best Time to Launch a Cyberattack?
Posted by Alex B. Berezow

China’s Crackdown on Cyber Activism

Cybersecurity and Tailored Deterrence
By Franklin D. Kramer and Melanie J. Teplinsky

What Was Edward Snowden Doing in India? ***

What about deterrence in an era of cyberwar?
By Peter W. Singer and Allan Friedman


Matters Mil

Military Review: November-December 2013


The complete edition as well as all articles are in pdf format. Complete issues may have large file sizes that may take some time to download. Individual articles can be accessed by clicking on the article title below.



Mission Command in the Regionally Aligned Division Headquarters by Brig. Gen. Wayne W. Grigsby Jr., U.S. Army; Col. Patrick Matlock, U.S. Army; Lt. Col. Christopher R. Norrie, U.S. Army; and Maj. Karen Radka, U.S. Army

1st Armored Division provides a force generation model for a regionally aligned headquarters based on a mission command philosophy and forward-focused mindset.

The Strategic Planning “Problem” by Maj. Gen. Gordon B. "Skip" Davis Jr., U.S. Army; Brig. Gen. Thomas C. Graves, U.S. Army; and Col. Christopher N. Prigge, U.S. Army

A group of senior officers call for further education of our officer corps to develop better collaboration, communication, and influence skills at the strategic level and critical and creative thinking skills in general.

Delivering the Command and General Staff Officer Course at the Operational Edge by Lt. Col. John A. Schatzel, U.S. Army, Retired, and Lt. Col. Wendell Stevens, U.S. Army, Retired

Professional military education is critical to developing leaders who run the Army and lead our soldiers in unified land operations. The Command and General Staff College educates officers serving throughout the world with its resident and nonresident courses.

Taking Ownership of Mission Command by Maj. Demetrios A. Ghikas, U.S. Army

An award winning author posits that mission command is the Army’s answer to the uncertainty, ambiguity, and fog of war and conflict. Leaders in every situation and every setting must practice mission command.


If we are to have leaders who truly practice mission command and can win the peace, our Army requires a fundamental reorientation, one that supports deep changes to Army culture, doctrine, training, personnel management, and education.

Leader Preparation to Support Rebuilding by Lt. Gen. Frederic J. (Rick) Brown, Ph.D., U.S. Army, Retired

To improve the effectiveness and efficiency of operating and generating forces, one accomplished author suggests teams of leaders using high performing leader team building and intensive collaboration across borders.

Fighting and Winning Like Women by Dr. Robert M. Hill

Success in the Army, or any military service, should not be determined by race, gender, sexual orientation, or even sexual identity but by one’s competence.

Commanders Intent and Concept of Operations by Maj. Richard Dempsey, U.S. Army, and Maj. Jonathan M. Chavous, U.S. Army

The author argues that the “expert” multi-paged concept of operations in electronic media used now could lead to a disjointed understanding of the concept of operations. He calls for a return to doctrinally complete mission orders.


Fighting sexual assault in the Army is in some ways like fighting an insurgency. Using the principles of COIN to identify possible predators, their territory, and their weapons will help stop sexual assaults.

The Electron Theory of Leadership: Enabling Senior Leaders to Really See Their Organizations by Maj. Gen. Richard Longo, U.S. Army, and Lt. Col. Joe Doty, Ph.D., U.S. Army, Retired

The authors offer five methods commanders can use to help assess their subordinate units without having to wonder if they are seeing the real deal or a “dog and pony show.”

A Role for Land Warfare Forces in Overcoming A2/AD by Col. Vincent Alcazar, U.S. Air Force, and Col. Thomas M. Lafleur, U.S. Army

Preparing for land warfare in the future begins today with an emphasis on future tactics, techniques, and procedures and associated concept of operations to maximize U.S. technologies in innovate ways.

REVIEW ESSAY - Captain Witold Pilecki by Daniel Paliwoda, Ph.D.

Witold Pilecki just about signs his own death warrant by allowing himself to be sent to Auschwitz; for that reason, one realizes immediately that Pilecki was a special man whose moral code is rare.


MANPADS Threat and International Efforts to Address It 
http://blogs-cdn.fas.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/The_MANPADS_Threat.pdf


Joint Pub 2-0, Joint Intelligence, 22 October 2013 
http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/new_pubs/jp2_0.pdf

Joint Pub 1-05, Religious Affairs in Joint Operations, 20 November 2013
http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/new_pubs/jp1_05.pdf

Joint Pub 3-06, Joint Urban Operations, 20 November 2013
http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/new_pubs/jp3_06.pdf

Educating the Force for Strategic Land Power 
http://smallwarsjournal.com/printpdf/14868

State Collapse, Insurgency, and Counterinsurgency: Lessons from Somalia 
http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=1176

From ‘Three Blocks’ to ‘Three Islands’: The Thin Line Between Police and Military Operations in Contested Maritime Spaces 
http://smallwarsjournal.com/printpdf/14929

The Network vs the BCT: Organizational Overmatch in Hybrid Strategies
http://smallwarsjournal.com/printpdf/14923

Russia & Iran: Strategic Alliance or Marriage of Convenience 
http://smallwarsjournal.com/printpdf/14953

Security Of Cities—Ecology And Conflict On An Urbanizing Planet
http://www.stimson.org/images/uploads/research-pdfs/SecurityOfCities.pdf

The United States and the Middle East: Avoiding Miscalculation and Preparing for Conflict 

IDA Research Notes, Fall 2013 
  • DOD Acquisition—Starting Viable Programs
  • Defining acquisition trade space through “DERIVE”
  • Supporting acquisition decisions in air mobility
  • Assessing system reliability with limited flight testing
  • Promise, reality, and limitations of software defined radios
  • Implications of contractor working capital on contract pricing and financing
  • The mechanisms and value of competition
  • Initiation and early management of acquisition programs

Lessons From Previous Competitive Strategies
Journal Article, Octavian Manea

Understanding War’s Enduring Nature Alongside its Changing Character

Is Precision the Future of CAS?
By AARON MEHTA

Conference: Modern Warfare's Complexity and the Human Dimension
SWJ Blog Post 

Lions and donkeys: 10 big myths about World War One debunked

David Axe in War is Boring

America's Emaciated Army

America's Secret War in 134 Countries


MISC

The Politics of Plenty: Balancing Climate and Energy Security 
http://carnegieendowment.org/files/politics_of_plenty.pdf


Beyond Crisis Management: A Practical Lifeline for Decision-makers in the Dark
http://www.crisis-response.com/PDF/Navigating_the_Unknown-Lagadec_2013.pdf

Poverty, Peace, and China: PKSOI and World Bank Perspectives
http://pksoi.army.mil/PKM/publications/relatedpubs/documents/Peace_and_Poverty_Spangler.pdf



Common Goals and Differential Commitments. The Role of Emerging Economies in Global Development 
http://www.die-gdi.de/CMS-Homepage/openwebcms3_e.nsf/(ynDK_contentByKey)/CHOD-9EJLBY/$FILE/DP%2026.2013.pdf

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