Aligning Ends Ways And Means

Author : D. Robert Worley
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : National security
ISBN : 9781105333323

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Aligning Ends, Ways, and Means by D. Robert Worley Pdf

After four decades of relative stability in national security strategy, American behavior has been erratic in search of a new and sustainable role on the world stage. Rather than facing an ideologically driven great power alliance, the new threat appears to be emanating from failed or failing states. And rather than preparing to deter, and if necessary, defeat, a military super power the United States has entered into long, costly, and uncertain nation building efforts that are falling out of favor with the American public facing a deep recession. Nation building efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan have exposed an imbalance in the capabilities of the departments and agencies and an inability to achieve a unity of effort, a whole of government effort. High level commissions recommend a reallocation of resources to achieve a new balance in the instruments of power and major reorganizations to affect a better orchestration of the instruments. Others are completely redefining national security. Traditionally, threats to national security were military problems with military solutions. What were considered issues of foreign policy -- including pandemics and environmental degradation -- are increasingly cast as national security matters. They are not military problems with military solutions. A national security strategy aligns ends, ways, and means. Finding a new alignment must take place in an environment of a deep and wide recession, partisan gridlock, and uncertainty about the very meaning of national security. This book presents the reader with the information necessary to engage in an informed debate on national security strategy and the system that supports it.

Author : Anna Simmons,Joe McGraw,Duane Lauchengco
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781612510668

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The Sovereignty Solution by Anna Simmons,Joe McGraw,Duane Lauchengco Pdf

The Sovereignty Solution is not an Establishment national security strategy. Instead, it describes what the U.S. could actually do to restore order to the world without having to engage in either global policing or nation-building. Currently there is no coherent plan that addresses questions like: If terrorists were to strike Chicago tomorrow, what would we do? When Chicago is burning, whom would we target? How would we respond? There is nothing in place and no strategy on the horizon to either reassure the American public or warn the world: attack us, and this is what you can expect. In this book, a Naval Postgraduate School professor and her Special Forces coauthors offer a radical yet commonsensical approach to recalibrating global security. Their book discusses what the United States could actually do to restore order to the world without having to engage in either global policing or nation-building. Two tracks to their strategy are presented: strengthening state responsibility abroad and strengthening the social fabric at home. The authors’ goal is to provoke a serious debate that addresses the gaps and disconnects between what the United States says and what it does, how it wants to be perceived, and how it is perceived. Without leaning left or right, they hope to draw many people into the debate and force Washington to rethink what it sends service men and women abroad to do.

Author : Gerlinde Groitl
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031186592

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Russia, China and the Revisionist Assault on the Western Liberal International Order by Gerlinde Groitl Pdf

This book analyzes Russian and Chinese revisionism in the face of US and Western post-Cold War liberal international order building and asks why both powers have turned revisionist in the late 2000s. The study develops a neoclassical realist model of international order building and contestation and posits to view revisionism as a strategic choice. States go revisionist if the status quo international order threatens their vital security needs (broadly defined not only as territorial security, but also political, economic, normative and ontological) and if they have the means to challenge the undesirable status quo. Russia and China were both unhappy with the post-Cold War international order of American designs, but had to opt for accommodation in the 1990s and early 2000s (“strategic accommodation” in the Chinese case, “resentful accommodation” in the Russian case), before revisionism became even more of a necessity and a real policy option from the late 2000s onward (“constructive revisionism” in the Chinese case, “destructive revisionism” in the Russian case). The author calls for a policy of neo-containment to counter Moscow’s and Beijing’s efforts to game and erode the international order.

Author : Håkan Edström,Jacob Westberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000438673

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Military Strategy of Great Powers by Håkan Edström,Jacob Westberg Pdf

This book explores the military strategies of the five system-determining great powers during the twenty-first century. The book’s point of departure is that analyses of countries’ defence strategies should acknowledge that states come in various shapes and sizes and that their strategic choices are affected by their perceptions of their position in the international system and by power asymmetries between more and less resourceful states. This creates a diversity in strategies that is often overlooked in theoretically oriented analyses. The book examines how five major powers – the United States, China, the United Kingdom, France and Russia – have adjusted their strategies to improve or maintain their relative position and to manage power asymmetries during the twenty-first century. It also develops and applies an analytical framework for exploring and categorising the strategies pursued by the five major powers which combines elements of structural realism with research on power transition theory and status competition. The concluding chapter addresses questions related to stability and change in the present international system. This book will be of interest to students of strategic studies, foreign policy, and International Relations.

Author : Williamson Murray,Richard Hart Sinnreich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107062733

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Successful Strategies by Williamson Murray,Richard Hart Sinnreich Pdf

Reveals the key factors that have contributed to the development and execution of successful military and political strategies throughout history.

Author : Håkan Edström,Jacob Westberg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000830514

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Military Strategies of the New European Allies by Håkan Edström,Jacob Westberg Pdf

This book analyses how and to what extent ex-communist states have adjusted their defence strategies since joining the EU and NATO, and how differences and similarities between their strategies can be explained. Between 1999 and 2013, four phases of enlargement took place when the European Union (EU) and NATO allowed 11 new former communist states to enter both organisations. These states share some common attributes and experiences related to strategic culture and common experiences during the Cold War era that can potentially explain similarities in behaviour and preferences among them. However, the strategic adjustments among these states are far from uniform. In an effort to explain these differences, the book introduces three intervening variables: (1) differences in relative power and position in the international system, (2) national geographical characteristics; and (3) historical experiences related to formative periods of state-building processes as well as wars and armed conflicts. Empirically, the book strives to present and analyse the defence strategies of each of the new allies by conducting a structured focused comparison of official strategic documents from the twenty-first century for each of the 11 cases. Theoretically and methodologically, it introduces an analytical framework enabling us to explain both similarities and differences in the formulation of the strategies of the 11 states, and to shed light on their external and internal efforts to promote their strategic interest by operationalising the dependent variable - defence strategy. The analytical framework combines elements of structural realism with classical realism, and constructivist research on unit-level characteristics related to relative power and perceptions of strategic exposure. This book will be of much interest to students of strategic studies, European Union policy, NATO and International Relations in general.

Author : Jason W. Warren
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780813177601

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Landpower in the Long War by Jason W. Warren Pdf

War and landpower's role in the twenty-first century is not just about military organizations, tactics, operations, and technology; it is also about strategy, policy, and social and political contexts. After fourteen years of war in the Middle East with dubious results, a diminished national reputation, and a continuing drawdown of troops with perhaps a future force increase proposed by the Trump administration, the role of landpower in US grand strategy will continue to evolve with changing geopolitical situations. Landpower in the Long War: Projecting Force After 9/11, edited by Jason W. Warren, is the first holistic academic analysis of American strategic landpower. Divided into thematic sections, this study presents a comprehensive approach to a critical aspect of US foreign policy as the threat or ability to use force underpins diplomacy. The text begins with more traditional issues, such as strategy and civilian-military relations, and works its way to more contemporary topics, such as how socio-cultural considerations effect the landpower force. It also includes a synopsis of the suppressed Iraq report from one of the now retired leaders of that effort. The contributors—made up of an interdisciplinary team of political scientists, historians, and military practitioners—demonstrate that the conceptualization of landpower must move beyond the limited operational definition offered by Army doctrine in order to encompass social changes, trauma, the rule of law, acquisition of needed equipment, civil-military relationships, and bureaucratic decision-making, and argue that landpower should be a useful concept for warfighters and government agencies.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Military planning
ISBN : MINN:31951D03492781T

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The Quadrennial Defense Review by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Pdf

Author : Wuyi Omitoogun,Eboe Hutchful
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199262667

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Budgeting for the Military Sector in Africa by Wuyi Omitoogun,Eboe Hutchful Pdf

In this comprehensive study, 15 African experts describe and analyse the military budgetary processes and degree of parliamentary oversight and control in nine countries of Africa, spanning across all the continent's sub-regions. Each case study addresses a wide range of questions, such as the roles of the ministries of finance, budget offices, audit departments and external actors in the military budgetary processes, the extent of compliance with standard public expenditure management procedures, and how well official military expenditure figures reflect the true economic resources devoted to military activities in these countries.

Author : Robert Albro,George Marcus,Laura A McNamara,Monica Schoch-Spana
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315434803

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Anthropologists in the SecurityScape by Robert Albro,George Marcus,Laura A McNamara,Monica Schoch-Spana Pdf

As the military and intelligence communities re-tool for the 21st century, the long and contentious debate about the role of social scientists in national security environments is dividing the disciplines with renewed passion. Yet, research shows that most scholars have a weak understanding of what today's security institutions actually are and what working in them entails. This book provides an essential new foundation for the debate, with fine-grained accounts of the complex and varied work of cultural, physical, and linguistic anthropologists and archaeologists doing security-related work in governmental and military organizations, the private sector, and NGOs. In candid and provocative dialogues, leading anthropologists interrogate the dilemmas of ethics in practice and professional identity. Anthropologists in the SecurityScape is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand or influence the relationship between anthropology and security in the twenty-first century.

Author : Isabelle Duyvesteyn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781316518472

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Rebels and Conflict Escalation by Isabelle Duyvesteyn Pdf

Duyvesteyn critically examines the potential explanations for the escalation and de-escalation during conflicts involving states and non-state actors, such as terrorists and insurgents.

Author : D. Robert Worley
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781612347523

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Orchestrating the Instruments of Power by D. Robert Worley Pdf

National security, a topic routinely discussed behind closed doors by Washington’s political scientists and policy makers, is believed to be an insider’s game. All too often this highly specialized knowledge is assumed to place issues beyond the grasp—and interest—of the American public. Author D. Robert Worley disagrees. The U.S. national security system, designed after World War II and institutionalized through a decades-long power conflict with the Soviet Union, is inadequate for the needs of the twenty-first century, and while a general consensus has emerged that the system must be transformed, a clear and direct route for a new national security strategy proves elusive. Furnishing the tools to assist in future national security reforms, Orchestrating the Instruments of Power articulates and synthesizes the concepts of America’s economic, political, and military instruments of power.

Author : Stephen J. Hadley,Peter D. Feaver,William C. Inboden,Meghan L. O'Sullivan
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 775 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780815739784

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Hand-Off: The Foreign Policy George W. Bush Passed to Barack Obama by Stephen J. Hadley,Peter D. Feaver,William C. Inboden,Meghan L. O'Sullivan Pdf

Hand-Off details the Bush administration’s national security and foreign policy as described at the time in then-classified Transition Memoranda prepared by the National Security Council experts who advised President Bush. Thirty of these Transition Memoranda, newly declassified and here made public for the first time, provide a detailed, comprehensive, and first-hand look at the foreign policy the Bush administration turned over to President Obama. In a postscript to each memorandum, these same experts now in hindsight take a remarkably self- critical look at that Bush foreign policy legacy after more than a dozen years of watching subsequent administrations attempt to deal with the same vexing agenda of threats and opportunities-- China, Russia, Iran, the Middle East, terrorism, proliferation, cyber, pandemics, and climate change—an agenda that still dominates America’s national security and foreign policy. Hand-Off will be an invaluable resource for scholars, students, policy analysts, and general readers seeking to understand afresh the Bush administration’s foreign policy, particularly in view of the records of the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations.

Author : Marius Kristiansen
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781977266262

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Small State Irregular Warfare in the Twenty-First Century by Marius Kristiansen Pdf

From a Norwegian perspective, and by focusing on the Special Operations Forces component within the Norwegian Armed Forces, this book provides a scholar-practitioner’s perspective on how to increase the strategic utility of different types of military efforts in an SSA context. The overarching project encompasses a wide range of elements for understanding the contemporary security environment and, in particular, how the military component fits into the strategic picture within an international context for small states. It shows that small states must be aware of the different limitations for existing strategic options for the various actors involved. It also outlines the strategic utility of potential niche capabilities, and how elements within the Norwegian Armed Forces can take on a strategic, enabling role for Norway, bilateral partners, and even coalitions in future conflicts. Small State Irregular Warfare in the Twenty-First Century serves as both a guide and a handbook on how small states might utilize SSA as an instrument of national power to meet national strategic objectives.

Author : W. Mitchinson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137451613

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The Territorial Force at War, 1914-16 by W. Mitchinson Pdf

William Mitchinson analyses the role and performance of the Territorial Force during the first two years of World War I. The study looks at the way the force was staffed and commanded, its relationship with the Regular Army and the War Office, and how most of its 1st Line divisions managed to retain and promote their local identities.