Rethinking Asymmetric Threats

Author : Stephen Blank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Asymmetric warfare
ISBN : 1584871393

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Rethinking Asymmetric Threats by Stephen Blank Pdf

For several years U.S. policymakers, officials, and writers on defense have employed the terms "asymmetric" or "asymmetry" to characterize everything from the nature of the threats we face to the nature of war and beyond. The author challenges the utility of using those terms to characterize the threats we face, one element of the broader debate over the nature of war, U.S. strategy, and the threats confronting us. As a work of critique, it aims to make an important contribution to the threat debate. A correct assessment of the nature of the threat environment is essential to any sound defense doctrine for the U.S. Army and the military as a whole. That correct assessment can only be reached through a process of critique and debate.

Author : Stephen Blank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Asymmetric warfare
ISBN : UVA:X004571721

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Rethinking Asymmetric Threats by Stephen Blank Pdf

For several years U.S. policymakers, officials, and writers on defense have employed the terms "asymmetric" or "asymmetry" to characterize everything from the nature of the threats we face to the nature of war and beyond. The author challenges the utility of using those terms to characterize the threats we face, one element of the broader debate over the nature of war, U.S. strategy, and the threats confronting us. As a work of critique, it aims to make an important contribution to the threat debate. A correct assessment of the nature of the threat environment is essential to any sound defense doctrine for the U.S. Army and the military as a whole. That correct assessment can only be reached through a process of critique and debate.

Author : Stephen J. Blank,Strategic Studies Institute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 1312335033

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Rethinking Asymmetric Threats by Stephen J. Blank,Strategic Studies Institute Pdf

Assessment of the threat environment is a critical element in the formulation of any state's strategy and defense doctrine. It also should be an inherently critical process that seeks to free policymakers from incorrect, antiquated, or misconceived perceptions about the threat. Consequently, the nature of the threat(s) the United States or any other government faces is the subject of a never-ending debate. For several years U.S. policymakers, officials, and writers on defense have employed the terms "asymmetric" or "asymmetry" to characterize everything from the nature of the threats we face to the nature of war and beyond. This monograph challenges the utility of using those terms to characterize the threats we face, one element of the broader debate over the nature of war, U.S. strategy, and the threats confronting us. As a work of critique, it aims to make an important contribution to the threat debate.

Author : Max G. Manwaring
Publisher : Strategic Studies Institute
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Asymmetric warfare
ISBN : 1584870680

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Internal Wars by Max G. Manwaring Pdf

The purpose of this monograph is not to find fault or identify villains. It is to draw from the lessons of the recent past to better prepare today's civilian and military leaders to meet the unconventional and asymmetric warfare challenges that face the United States and the rest of the international community. This country is in a new global security environment that involves the integration of free markets, technologies, and countries to a degtree never before witnessed. The growling, nuclear-armed Soviet bear was relatively easy to understand and deal with ...

Author : Anthony D McIvor
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612512587

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Rethinking the Principles of War by Anthony D McIvor Pdf

This work features the fresh thinking of twenty-eight leading authors from a variety of military and national security disciplines. Following an introduction by Lt. Gen. James Dubik, Commander I Corps, U.S. Army, the anthology first considers the general question of whether there is a distinctly American way of war. Dr. Colin Gray's opening essay "The American Way of War: Critique and Implications" provides a state of the question perspective. Sections on operational art, with writers addressing the issues in both conventional and small wars; stability and reconstruction; and intelligence complete the volume. Among the well-known contributors are Robert Scales, Mary Kaldor, Ralph Peters, Jon Sumida, Grant Hammond, Milan Vego, and T.X. Hammes. The anthology is part of a larger Rethinking the Principles project, sponsored by the Office of Force Transformation and the U.S. Navy to examine approaches to the future of warfare. Footnotes, index, and a bibliographic essay make the work a useful tool for students of war and general readers alike.

Author : Sean Kay
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442206151

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Global Security in the Twenty-first Century by Sean Kay Pdf

This second edition of Global Security in the Twenty-first Century offers a thoroughly updated and balanced introduction to contemporary security studies. Sean Kay examines the relationship between globalization and international security and places traditional quests for power and national security in the context of the ongoing search for peace. Sean Kay explores a range of security challenges, including fresh analysis of the implications of the global economic crisis and current flashpoints for international security trends. Writing in an engaging style, Kay integrates traditional and emerging challenges in one easily accessible study that gives readers the tools they need to develop a thoughtful and nuanced understanding of global security.

Author : Myriam Dunn Cavelty,Victor Mauer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317076957

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Power and Security in the Information Age by Myriam Dunn Cavelty,Victor Mauer Pdf

The marriage of computers and telecommunications, the global integration of these technologies and their availability at low cost is bringing about a fundamental transformation in the way humans communicate and interact. But however much consensus there may be on the growing importance of information technology today, agreement is far more elusive when it comes to pinning down the impact of this development on security issues. Written by scholars in international relations, this volume focuses on the role of the state in defending against cyber threats and in securing the information age. The manuscript is captivating with the significance and actuality of the issues discussed and the logical, knowledgeable and engaged presentation of the issues. The essays intrigue and provoke with a number of 'fresh' hypotheses, observations and suggestions, and they contribute to mapping the diverse layers, actors, approaches and policies of the cyber security realm.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Unified operations (Military science)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105214545274

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Joint Force Quarterly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Adam B. Lowther
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780275996369

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Americans and Asymmetric Conflict by Adam B. Lowther Pdf

As the War in Iraq continues to rage, many in the White House, State Department, Department of Defense, and outside government are left to wonder if it was possible to foresee the difficulty the United States is currently having with Sunni nationalists and Islamic extremists. Recent American military experience offers significant insight into this question. With the fog of the Cold War finally lifting and clarity returning to the nature of conflict, the dominance of asymmetry in the military experience of the United States is all too evident. Lebanon (1982-1984), Somalia (1992-1994), and Afghanistan (2001-2004) offer recent and relevant insight into successes and failures of American attempts to fight adversaries utilizing asymmetric conflict to combat the United States when it intervened in these three states. The results illustrate the difficulty of engaging adversaries unwilling to wage a conventional war and the need for improved strategic and tactical doctrine. It is easy, Lowther writes, for Americans to forget the lessons of past conflicts as the politics of the present dominate.... His purpose here is to highlight some of history's recent lessons so that we may move forward with an awareness of what experience offers.

Author : Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg,Volker Epping
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783540490906

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International Humanitarian Law Facing New Challenges by Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg,Volker Epping Pdf

This book features the contributions of a distinguished group of experts in the field of the law of armed conflicts that gathered in Berlin in June 2005. The goal of the colloquium, which marked the 70th birthday of Knut Ipsen, was to find operable solutions for problems and challenges that confront the contemporary law of armed conflict.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Air Force law
ISBN : NWU:35559006495950

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The Air Force Law Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Maitland Hyslop
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317086314

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Obstructive Marketing by Maitland Hyslop Pdf

In Obstructive Marketing, Maitland Hyslop deals with a very negative kind of activity which embraces activities, legal or otherwise, designed to prevent or restrict the distribution of a product or service, temporarily or permanently, against the wishes of the product manufacturer, service provider or customer. When the author defined this phenomenon as Obstructive Marketing and started to research it more than a decade ago, it was seen as a valid concept that was perhaps ahead of its time. The World has moved on and in the era of globalization a study of this negative aspect of marketing is now required. Obstructive Marketing is now seen as the business equivalent of asymmetric warfare, which is increasingly understood because the rise of the South and East at the expense of the North and West has brought some Obstructive Marketing stratagems into sharp focus. Using the author’s own research, this book explains what Obstructive Marketing is and why it is not called Anti-Marketing. The author explains who practises Obstructive Marketing, where, when and how; and why businesses are particularly vulnerable when entering new markets and engaging in change and innovation. Intriguing concepts such as cultural risk are illuminated along with formal links between Obstructive Marketing, asymmetric warfare and terrorism. This all leads to identification of the need for a strong Government/Business partnership to counter the effects of this darkest kind of marketing.

Author : Transatlantic Policy Consortium. Annual Colloquium
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : International relations
ISBN : 9783825806552

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Transatlantic Perspectives on Security Imperatives by Transatlantic Policy Consortium. Annual Colloquium Pdf

The third volume of the Transatlantic Public Policy Series contains papers prepared by members of the Transatlantic Policy Consortium (TPC), representing American and European universities and institutions. The 13 contributions focus on the future of NATO, the possibilities of transatlantic cooperation in the Middle East problems, and the challenges to human security. The collection serves as an illustration of the state of the debate on security problems in transatlantic relations at this specific time. It will contribute to greater synergies of thinking and studies of global security pursued in American and European institutions.

Author : Giuseppe Caforio
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848558908

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Advances in Military Sociology by Giuseppe Caforio Pdf

A selection of the papers presented at RC01's international conference in Seoul (July 2008). It offers an overview of the panorama of social studies on armed forces and conflict resolution in a context of fast-moving change. It presents studies that move beyond the very concept of globalization.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 4576 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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