Security In Iraq A Framework For Analyzing Emerging Threats As U S Forces Leave

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:610006172

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Security in Iraq: A Framework for Analyzing Emerging Threats as U.S. Forces Leave by Anonim Pdf

A critical question surrounding the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq is Iraq's internal security and stability. Although the U.S. withdrawal plan is designed with care to avoid weakening Iraq's security, the end of U.S. occupation may alter the strategies of the main Iraqi political actors, each of which has enough armed power to be able to shatter Iraq's domestic peace. In view of the potential for insecurity in Iraq, the United States cannot afford to take a passive or reactive stance. To anticipate dangers and act purposefully, U.S. policy-makers need a dynamic analytic framework with which to examine the shifting motivations and capabilities of the actors that affect Iraq's security. This monograph offers such a framework.

Author : David C. Gompert,Terrence K. Kelly,Jessica Watkins
Publisher : RAND Corporation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 083304771X

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Security in Iraq by David C. Gompert,Terrence K. Kelly,Jessica Watkins Pdf

U.S. withdrawal could affect Iraq's internal security and stability, which could, in turn, affect U.S. strategic interests and the safety of U.S. troops and civilians in Iraq. U.S. policy-makers need a dynamic analytic framework with which to examine the shifting motivations and capabilities of the actors that affect Iraq's security. Within this framework, the United States should be able to contribute to continued strengthening of the internal security and stability of Iraq even as it withdraws its forces.

Author : Kimberly Marten
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801464584

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Warlords by Kimberly Marten Pdf

Warlords are individuals who control small territories within weak states, using a combination of force and patronage. In this book, Kimberly Marten shows why and how warlords undermine state sovereignty. Unlike the feudal lords of a previous era, warlords today are not state-builders. Instead they collude with cost-conscious, corrupt, or frightened state officials to flout and undermine state capacity. They thrive on illegality, relying on private militias for support, and often provoke violent resentment from those who are cut out of their networks. Some act as middlemen for competing states, helping to hollow out their own states from within. Countries ranging from the United States to Russia have repeatedly chosen to ally with warlords, but Marten argues that to do so is a dangerous proposition. Drawing on interviews, documents, local press reports, and in-depth historical analysis, Marten examines warlordism in the Pakistani tribal areas during the twentieth century, in post-Soviet Georgia and the Russian republic of Chechnya, and among Sunni militias in the U.S.-supported Anbar Awakening and Sons of Iraq programs. In each case state leaders (some domestic and others foreign) created, tolerated, actively supported, undermined, or overthrew warlords and their militias. Marten draws lessons from these experiences to generate new arguments about the relationship between states, sovereignty, "local power brokers," and stability and security in the modern world.

Author : Reese Erlich,Baer Robert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317261988

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Conversations with Terrorists by Reese Erlich,Baer Robert Pdf

Drawing on original research and firsthand interviews, Conversations with Terrorists offers critical portraits of six Middle Eastern leaders often labeled as terrorists: Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad, Hamas top leader Khaled Meshal, Israeli politician Geula Cohen, Iranian Revolutionary Guard founder Mohsen Sazargara, Hezbollah spiritual advisor Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Fadlallah, and former Afghan Radio and Television Ministry head Malamo Nazamy. Veteran journalist Reese Erlich offers them a chance to explain key issues and to respond to charges leveled by the United States. Critiquing these responses and synthesizing a broad range of material, Erlich shows that yesterday’s terrorist is today’s national leader, and that today’s freedom fighter may become tomorrow’s terrorist. He concludes that the global war on terror has diverted public attention from the war’s real goal—expanding U.S. influence and interests in the Middle East—and offers policy remedies.

Author : Jocelyne Cesari
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107513297

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The Awakening of Muslim Democracy by Jocelyne Cesari Pdf

Why and how did Islam become such a political force in so many Muslim-majority countries? In this book, Jocelyne Cesari investigates the relationship between modernization, politics, and Islam in Muslim-majority countries such as Egypt, Iraq, Pakistan, Tunisia, and Turkey - countries that were founded by secular rulers and have since undergone secularized politics. Cesari argues that nation-building processes in these states have not created liberal democracies in the Western mold, but have instead spurred the politicization of Islam by turning it into a modern national ideology. Looking closely at examples of Islamic dominance in political modernization, this study provides a unique overview of the historical and political developments from the end of World War II to the Arab Spring that have made Islam the dominant force in the construction of the modern states, and discusses Islam's impact on emerging democracies in the contemporary Middle East.

Author : Bert Chapman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313385803

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Geopolitics by Bert Chapman Pdf

This concise introduction to the growth and evolution of geopolitics as a discipline includes biographical information on its leading historical and contemporary practitioners and detailed analysis of its literature. An important book on a topic that has been neglected for too long, Geopolitics: A Guide to the Issues will provide readers with an enhanced understanding of how geography influences personal, national, and international economics, politics, and security. The work begins with the history of geopolitics from the late 19th century to the present, then discusses the intellectual renaissance the discipline is experiencing today due to the prevalence of international security threats involving territorial, airborne, space-based, and waterborne possession and acquisition. The book emphasizes current and emerging international geopolitical trends, examining how the U.S. and other countries, including Australia, Brazil, China, India, and Russia, are integrating geopolitics into national security planning. It profiles international geopolitical scholars and their work, and it analyzes emerging academic, military, and governmental literature, including "gray" literature and social networking technologies, such as blogs and Twitter.

Author : National Intelligence Council
Publisher : Cosimo Reports
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1646794974

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Global Trends 2040 by National Intelligence Council Pdf

"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCR:31210023599044

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The Future Security Environment by Anonim Pdf

Author : Iraq Study Group (U.S.),James Addison Baker,Lee H. Hamilton
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : MINN:31951D02473965Y

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The Iraq Study Group Report by Iraq Study Group (U.S.),James Addison Baker,Lee H. Hamilton Pdf

Presents the findings of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, which was formed in 2006 to examine the situation in Iraq and offer suggestions for the American military's future involvement in the region.

Author : Steven Metz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Counterinsurgency
ISBN : NWU:35556036781615

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Learning from Iraq by Steven Metz Pdf

While the involvement of the United States in counterinsurgency has a long history, it had faded in importance in the years following the end of the Cold War. When American forces first confronted it in Iraq, they were not fully prepared. Since then, the U.S. military and other government agencies have expended much effort to refine their counterinsurgency capabilities. But have they done enough?

Author : Conrad C. Crane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Democratization
ISBN : IND:30000139803153

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Reconstructing Iraq by Conrad C. Crane Pdf

Author : Bruce R. Pirnie,Edward O'Connell
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780833045843

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Counterinsurgency in Iraq (2003-2006) by Bruce R. Pirnie,Edward O'Connell Pdf

Examines the deleterious effects of the U.S. failure to focus on protecting the Iraqi population for most of the military campaign in Iraq and analyzes the failure of a technologically driven counterinsurgency (COIN) approach. It outlines strategic considerations relative to COIN; presents an overview of the conflict in Iraq; describes implications for future operations; and offers recommendations to improve the U.S. capability to conduct COIN.

Author : Special Inspector for Afghanistan Reconstruction (U.S.),Special Inspector General for Afghanista
Publisher : U.S. Independent Agencies and Commissions
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0160948312

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Reconstructing the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces: Lessons from the U.S. Experience in Afghanistan by Special Inspector for Afghanistan Reconstruction (U.S.),Special Inspector General for Afghanista Pdf

This publication is the second in a series of lessons learned reports which examine how the U.S. government and Departments of Defense, State, and Justice carried out reconstruction programs in Afghanistan. In particular, the report analyzes security sector assistance (SSA) programs to create, train and advise the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) between 2002 and 2016. This publication concludes that the effort to train the ANDSF needs to continue, and provides recommendations for the SSA programs to be improved, based on lessons learned from careful analysis of real reconstruction situations in Afghanistan. The publication states that the United States was never prepared to help create Afghan police and military forces capable of protecting that country from internal and external threats. It is the hope of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), John F. Sopko, that this publication, and other SIGAR reports will create a body of work that can help provide reasonable solutions to help United States agencies and military forces improve reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan. Related items: Counterterrorism publications can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/counterterrorism Counterinsurgency publications can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/counterinsurgency Warfare & Military Strategy publications can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/warfare-military-strategy Afghanistan War publications can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/afghanistan-war

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814462754

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Human Security: From Concept to Practice by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard L. Kugler
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1579060706

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Policy Analysis in National Security Affairs by Richard L. Kugler Pdf

This book addresses how to conduct policy analysis in the field of national security, including foreign policy and defense strategy. It is a philosophical and conceptual book for helphing people think deeply, clearly, and insightfully about complex policy issues. This books reflects the viewpoint that the best policies normally come from efforts to synthesize competing camps by drawing upon the best of each of them and by combining them to forge a sensible whole. While this book is written to be reader-friendly, it aspires to in-depth scholarship.