Adapting America S Security Paradigm And Security Agenda

Author : Roy Godson,Richard H. Shultz,Querine Hanlon,Samantha Fay Ravich,National Strategy Information Center
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Military doctrine
ISBN : 0981777627

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Adapting America's Security Paradigm and Security Agenda by Roy Godson,Richard H. Shultz,Querine Hanlon,Samantha Fay Ravich,National Strategy Information Center Pdf

More than half of the world's population lives in fragile and failing states. Hundreds of armed groups, political movements, and extremists are competing for control and influence of these territories and beyond, using irregular techniques. In this interconnected world, even micro groups are capable of causing macro damage. This current environment contrasts sharply with the kind of conflict and wars fought between states in the 20th century. Yet the U.S. national security systemand those of most alliesis still calibrated to clashes between major powers rather than the persistent conflicts that now dominate. The traditional U.S. security paradigmand much of the underlying US strategy and operational capabilitiesneeds to be adapted and reoriented.The National Strategy Information Center research team worked with creative senior practitioners from democracies around the world to lay out the essential intellectual and analytic foundation for this adaptation. They identified key 21st-century actors, their visions, strategic cultures, and the techniques they are using. The team also examined effective practices from US and foreign experiences. In Adapting America's Security Paradigm and Security Agenda, they conclude that managing the complex dimensions of the 21st-century security environment goes beyond force levels and firepower. The U.S. needs capabilities that it does not now have or that can be adapted to match the new environment. They include intelligence, military, and civilian operators with special skill sets. The adapted agenda focuses on:1.Intelligence dominance based on acquiring and operating with local knowledge; 2.Security, Stability, and Rule/Culture of Law Teams trained to assist local leaders in fostering stability, development, and rule of law principles; 3.Military Units organized and trained to address the full spectrum of irregular challenges;4.Strategic Communication, closely integrated with policy implementation;5.Coalition Buildersskilled professionals forging cooperation among leaders in fragile states and to prevent and prevail in irregular conflicts.

Author : Stephen J. Flanagan,James A. Schear
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781597971201

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Strategic Challenges by Stephen J. Flanagan,James A. Schear Pdf

Experts analyze seven key security challenges

Author : Barry Buzan,Ole Wæver,Jaap de Wilde
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 1555877842

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Security by Barry Buzan,Ole Wæver,Jaap de Wilde Pdf

Sets out a comprehensive framework of analysis for security studies, examining the distinctive character and dynamics of security in five sectors: military, political, economic, environmental, and societal. It rejects traditionalists' case for restricting security in one sector, arguing that security is a particular type of politics applicable to a wide range of issues, and offers a constructivist operational method for distinguishing the process of securitization from that of politicization. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Robert Mandel
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804786492

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Global Security Upheaval by Robert Mandel Pdf

This book calls into question the commonly held contentions that central governments are the most important or even the sole sources of a nation's stability, and that subnational and transnational nonstate forces are a major source of global instability. By assessing recent real-world trends, Mandel reveals that areas exist where it makes little sense to rely on state governments for stability, and that attempts to bolster such governments to promote stability often prove futile. He demonstrates how armed nonstate groups can sometimes provide local stability better than states, and how power-sharing arrangements between states and armed nonstate groups may sometimes be viable. He concludes that these trends in the international setting call for major shifts in our understanding of what constitutes stable governance—proposing that we adopt a fluid "emergent actor" approach. And he calls for significant deviation from standard policy responses to the opportunities and dangers posed by nontraditional sources of national authority.

Author : Bjoern H. Seibert
Publisher : Strategic Studies Institute
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781584874652

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Operation EUFOR TCHAD/RCA and the European Union's Common Security and Defense Policy by Bjoern H. Seibert Pdf

Addressing security challenges posed by weak and failed states will require increasingly demanding military interventions, often over a great distance and prolonged periods of time. As a result of several engagements over the last decade, the U.S. military has gained valuable experience in undertaking stability operations. However, the United States should not be expected to fulfill such operations alone; we must look to our partners and allies to share some of the global responsibility. In this, Europe is unquestionably the most capable and natural U.S. ally. While most U.S. policymakers are familiar with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, developments in the field of security and defense within the European Union (EU) have thus far received little attention in the United States, despite the EU's increasing importance. One such operation in Africa, Operation EUFOR TCHAD/RCA, provides a look inside the workings of an EU military operation, highlights successes and failures, and draws lessons learned. --

Author : Robert Shultz
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612511412

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The Marines Take Anbar by Robert Shultz Pdf

The U.S. Marine Corps’ four-year campaign against al Qaeda in Anbar is a fight certain to take its place next to such legendary clashes as Belleau Wood, Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Chosin, and Khe Sanh. Its success, the author contends, constituted a major turning point in the Iraq War and helped alter the course of events and set the stage for the Surge in Baghdad a year later. This book brings to light all the decisive details of how the Marines, between 2004 and 2008, adapted and improvised as they applied the hard lessons of past mistakes. In March 2004, when part of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force (I MEF) was deployed to Anbar Province in the heart of the Sunni triangle, the Marines quickly found themselves locked in a bloody test of wills with al Qaeda, and a burgeoning violent insurgency. By the spring of 2006, according to all accounts, enemy violence was skyrocketing, while predictions for any U.S. success were plummeting. But at that same time new counterinsurgency initiatives were put in place when I MEF returned for its second tour in Anbar, and the Marines began to gain control. By September 2008 the fight was over. Richard Shultz, a well-known author and international security studies expert, has thoroughly researched this subject. His book effectively argues the case for the Marines changing the course of the war at Anbar, which is contrary to the conventional wisdom that the Surge was the turning point."

Author : IOS Press
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781614992721

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Future Trends and New Approaches in Defeating the Terrorism Threat by IOS Press Pdf

The threat of terrorism has become an ever present preoccupation, necessitating the constant review and updating of defensive strategies to counter it from national governments and policymakers. This book presents selected articles based on some of the lectures delivered at the NATO Centre of Excellence – Defence against Terrorism (COE – DAT) Advanced Training Course (ATC) Future Trends and New Approaches in Defeating the Terrorism Threat, held in Algiers, Algeria, in October 2011. Subjects covered by these articles include an overview of terrorism; respecting human rights in the countering of terrorism; suicide terrorism; terrorism involving weapons of mass destruction; bioterrorism; terrorism, media and public information; strategic communications in the defence against terrorism; the challenges posed by non-state armed groups; and sources of instability. This collection of articles will be of interest to all those involved in countering the threat of terrorism worldwide.

Author : Rufus C. Phillips III
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780700633043

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Stabilizing Fragile States by Rufus C. Phillips III Pdf

Stabilizing Fragile States: Why It Matters and What to Do About It is a masterclass on intervening to help fragile states stabilize in the face of internal challenges that threaten national security and how the United States can do better at less cost with improved chances of success. Written from the point of view of an on-the-ground practitioner after exceptional government and voluntary service abroad, Rufus C. Phillips III uses his experience to explain why US efforts to help fragile countries stabilize is important to national security. Helping stabilize fragile states has been too much of a poorly informed, impersonal, technocratic, and conflicted process that has been dominated by reactions to events and missing a more human approach tailored to various countries’ circumstances. In his book, Phillips explains why we have not been more successful and what it would take to make our stabilization efforts effective, sustainable, and less expensive. Recent US involvements have ranged in intensity and size from Colombia, which did not put US boots on the ground, to massive interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, which did. The lack of success in Afghanistan and Iraq has tended to dominate the national conversation about dealing with fragile states. Stabilizing Fragile States provides a thorough analysis of what has gone wrong and what has gone right in US involvement. • Stabilizing fragile states is more of an unconventional political and psychological endeavor requiring an operational mindset rather than conventional war or normal diplomacy. • Defines the focus of counterinsurgency not as killing insurgents but as a positive effort to win local people’s support by involving them in their own self-defense and political, social, and economic development. • Americans must understand the religious, historical, political, and social context of the host country and be consistent, patient, and persistent in what they do. • Security-force training in host countries must include respect for civilians and the definition by their leadership of a national cause that the trainees believe is worth risking their lives to defend. • Recommends creating a dedicated cadre of expeditionary diplomacy and development professionals in Department of State/USAID and a special training school as an addition to the Global Fragility Act. This book is part of the ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy series.

Author : Richard J Bailey,James W Forsyth,Mark O Yeisley
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781682470176

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Strategy by Richard J Bailey,James W Forsyth,Mark O Yeisley Pdf

How does one engage in the study of strategy? Strategy: Context and Adaptation from Archidamus to Airpower argues that strategy is not just concerned with amassing knowledge; it is also about recognizing our imperfect understanding of the environment and respecting the complex nature of adaptation to the unforeseen or unexpected. In essence, the strongest strategists are those who commit to an education that cultivates a more holistic and adaptive way of thinking. With that thought in mind, the contributors to Strategy, each a current or former professor at the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, widely considered the Department of Defense’s premier school of strategy, offer ways of thinking strategically about a variety of subject matters, from classical history to cyber power. Practitioners in the profession of arms, perhaps more than any other profession, must employ critical thinking where the application of power on land, at sea, in the air, and in space and cyberspace are concerned. Strategy examines various sub-disciplines regarding the use of power, and illuminates different approaches to thinking which have implications beyond the implementation of force.

Author : A. Svendsen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137283313

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Understanding the Globalization of Intelligence by A. Svendsen Pdf

In this concise introduction to the complexities of contemporary western intelligence and its dynamics during an era of globalization, Adam Svendsen discusses intelligence cooperation in the early 21st century, with a sharp focus on counter-terrorism and WMD counter-proliferation during the 'War on Terror.'

Author : Richard H. Shultz Jr.
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781626167650

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Transforming US Intelligence for Irregular War by Richard H. Shultz Jr. Pdf

When Joint Special Operations Command deployed Task Force 714 to Iraq in 2003, it faced an adversary unlike any it had previously encountered: al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). AQI’s organization into multiple, independent networks and its application of Information Age technologies allowed it to wage war across a vast landscape. To meet this unique threat, TF 714 developed the intelligence capacity to operate inside those networks, and in the words of commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal, USA (Ret.) “claw the guts out of AQI.” In Transforming US Intelligence for Irregular War, Richard H. Shultz Jr. provides a broad discussion of the role of intelligence in combatting nonstate militants and revisits this moment of innovation during the Iraq War, showing how the defense and intelligence communities can adapt to new and evolving foes. Shultz tells the story of how TF 714 partnered with US intelligence agencies to dismantle AQI’s secret networks by eliminating many of its key leaders. He also reveals how TF 714 altered its methods and practices of intelligence collection, intelligence analysis, and covert paramilitary operations to suppress AQI’s growing insurgency and, ultimately, destroy its networked infrastructure. TF 714 remains an exemplar of successful organizational learning and adaptation in the midst of modern warfare. By examining its innovations, Shultz makes a compelling case for intelligence leading the way in future campaigns against nonstate armed groups.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Unified operations (Military science)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105214545274

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Joint Force Quarterly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dominic J. Caraccilo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313391507

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Beyond Guns and Steel by Dominic J. Caraccilo Pdf

This work is a doctrinal examination of war termination strategy and conflict resolution as a dependent pair, requiring a plan to achieve both in unison in advance of a fight. The necessity of a plan for conflict resolution should be intuitively obvious for policymakers, yet a survey of recent conflicts, including Afghanistan and Iraq, shows that not to be the case. Beyond Guns and Steel: A War Termination Strategy provides a practical approach to establishing a plan for war termination and conflict resolution before the bullets fly. In explaining the difference between strategy and policy, Colonel Dominic J. Caraccilo clarifies the most important, and often the most constraining, element of a nation's power—its resources. He posits that termination strategy and conflict resolution are interdependent and need to be included in conflict plans from the outset. Caraccilo's book fills a void in current strategy for the development of long-term plans that bring conflicts to timely and acceptable conclusions, providing a methodology that allows interagency requirements and resources for war termination to be defined, allocated, and employed effectively.

Author : Willem Th. Oosterveld,Stephan de Spiegeleire,Marjolein de Ridder,Tim Sweijs,Frank Bekkers,Dana Poláčková,Scott Ward,Kamal Eldin Salah,Rik Rutten,Nathalie Olah
Publisher : The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789492102317

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SI VIS PACEM, PARA UTIQUE PACEM by Willem Th. Oosterveld,Stephan de Spiegeleire,Marjolein de Ridder,Tim Sweijs,Frank Bekkers,Dana Poláčková,Scott Ward,Kamal Eldin Salah,Rik Rutten,Nathalie Olah Pdf

Analyses of the international security environment typically provide somber overviews of the various drivers and manifestations of conflict and instability around the world. Recent developments such as the terrorist attacks in Paris, Beirut and elsewhere, a Middle East in flames, a resurgent Russia, incessant violence in West Africa or turmoil in South China Sea only reinforce this view. By framing our analysis of the security environment in these terms, debates about how to anticipate and respond to these current and future threats invariably focus on those forces of instability and conflict: how to identify threats and enemies and then eliminate them. This report is based on the premise that this conflict-centric mindset has led to portfolio choices in terms of strategies (‘what do we do and how do we do it?’), capabilities (‘what do we do it with?’), and partners (‘who do we do it with?’) that have been excessively onesided. This report argues that there is an alternative, complementary way of framing security that is equally real and equally actionable for defense and security organizations (DSOs4 ): a resilience-centric one.

Author : Martin Anderson
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780203102831

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Contemporary Ergonomics and Human Factors 2012 by Martin Anderson Pdf

The broad and developing scope of ergonomics - the application of scientific knowledge to improve people‘s interaction with products, systems and environments - has been illustrated for 25 years by the books which make up the Contemporary Ergonomics series. This book presents the proceedings of the international conference on Ergonomics and Human F