The Us Military Profession Into The Twenty First Century

Author : Sam Sarkesian,Robert Connor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134244683

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The US Military Profession into the 21st Century by Sam Sarkesian,Robert Connor Pdf

This brand new edition of The US Military Profession into the Twenty-First Century re-examines the challenges faced by the military profession in the aftermath of the international terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001. While many of the issues facing the military profession examined in the first edition remain, the 'new war' and international terrorism have compounded the challenges. The US military must respond to the changed domestic and strategic landscapes without diminishing its primary function—a function that now many see that goes beyond success on the battlefield. Not only has this complicated the problem of reconciling the military professional ethos and raison d’etre with civilian control in a democracy, it challenges traditional military professionalism. This book also studies the notion of a US military stretched thin and relying more heavily on the US Federal Reserves and National Guard. These developments make the US military profession increasingly linked to public attitudes and political perspectives. In sum, the challenge faced by the US military profession can be termed a dual dilemma. It must respond effectively to the twenty-first century strategic landscape while undergoing the revolution in military affairs and transformation. At the same time, the military profession must insure that it remains compatible with civilian cultures and the US political-social system without eroding its primary function. This is an invaluable book for all students with an interest in the US Military, and of strategic studies and military history in general.

Author : Sam Charles Sarkesian,Robert E. Connor, Jr.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : United States
ISBN : 0415358515

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The US Military Profession in the Twenty-first Century by Sam Charles Sarkesian,Robert E. Connor, Jr. Pdf

"This new edition of The US Military Profession into the Twenty-First Century re-examines the challenges faced by the US military profession in the aftermath of September 11. While many of the issues examined in the first edition remain, the "new war" and international terrorism have compounded the challenges." "The authors define the challenge faced by the US military profession as a dual dilemma: it must respond effectively to the twenty-first-century strategic landscape and undergo a revolution in military affairs while ensuring that it remains compatible with civilian cultures and the US political-social system without eroding its primary function. To overcome this challenge, the authors argue, the military profession must not only maintain its capability in fighting large conventional wars, but also be effective in limited wars and unconventional conflicts. Equally important, it must ensure that its voice be heard within the National Command Authority, Congress and by the American people. Only by adopting a policy of constructive political engagement with the US political-social system can the military effectively respond to the challenge of a "new war" and strengthen military professionalism." "This book will be of great interest to students of civil-military relations, American politics, strategic studies and military sociology as well as to military colleges and policy-makers." --Book Jacket.

Author : Sam Sarkesian,Robert Connor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134244690

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The US Military Profession into the 21st Century by Sam Sarkesian,Robert Connor Pdf

This brand new edition of The US Military Profession into the Twenty-First Century re-examines the challenges faced by the military profession in the aftermath of the international terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001. While many of the issues facing the military profession examined in the first edition remain, the 'new war' and international terrorism have compounded the challenges. The US military must respond to the changed domestic and strategic landscapes without diminishing its primary function—a function that now many see that goes beyond success on the battlefield. Not only has this complicated the problem of reconciling the military professional ethos and raison d’etre with civilian control in a democracy, it challenges traditional military professionalism. This book also studies the notion of a US military stretched thin and relying more heavily on the US Federal Reserves and National Guard. These developments make the US military profession increasingly linked to public attitudes and political perspectives. In sum, the challenge faced by the US military profession can be termed a dual dilemma. It must respond effectively to the twenty-first century strategic landscape while undergoing the revolution in military affairs and transformation. At the same time, the military profession must insure that it remains compatible with civilian cultures and the US political-social system without eroding its primary function. This is an invaluable book for all students with an interest in the US Military, and of strategic studies and military history in general.

Author : Joseph J. Collins,Thomas Owen Jacobs
Publisher : CSIS
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0892063602

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American Military Culture in the Twenty-first Century by Joseph J. Collins,Thomas Owen Jacobs Pdf

This CSIS project examined American military culture -- its norms, values, philosophies, and traditions -- and the services' abilities to adapt to environmental stress and the demands of the twenty-first century.

Author : Alexander Lanoszka
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509545582

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Military Alliances in the Twenty-First Century by Alexander Lanoszka Pdf

Alliance politics is a regular headline grabber. When a possible military crisis involving Russia, North Korea, or China rears its head, leaders and citizens alike raise concerns over the willingness of US allies to stand together. As rival powers have tightened their security cooperation, the United States has stepped up demands that its allies increase their defense spending and contribute more to military operations in the Middle East and elsewhere. The prospect of former President Donald Trump unilaterally ending alliances alarmed longstanding partners, even as NATO was welcoming new members into its ranks. Military Alliances in the Twenty-First Century is the first book to explore fully the politics that shape these security arrangements – from their initial formation through the various challenges that test them and, sometimes, lead to their demise. Across six thematic chapters, Alexander Lanoszka challenges conventional wisdom that has dominated our understanding of how military alliances have operated historically and into the present. Although military alliances today may seem uniquely hobbled by their internal difficulties, Lanoszka argues that they are in fact, by their very nature, prone to dysfunction.

Author : David M. Kennedy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199895953

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The Modern American Military by David M. Kennedy Pdf

The advent of the all-volunteer force and the evolving nature of modern warfare have transformed our military, changing it in serious if subtle ways that few Americans are aware of. Edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David M. Kennedy, this stimulating volume brings together insights from a remarkable group of scholars, who shed important new light on the changes effecting today's armed forces. Beginning with a Foreword by former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry, the contributors take an historical approach as they explore the ever-changing strategic, political, and fiscal contexts in which the armed forces are trained and deployed, and the constantly shifting objectives that they are tasked to achieve in the post-9/11 environment. They also offer strong points of view. Lawrence Freedman, for instance, takes the leadership to task for uncritically embracing the high-tech Revolution in Military Affairs when "conventional" warfare seems increasingly unlikely. And eminent psychiatrist Jonathan Shay warns that the post-battle effects of what he terms "moral wounds" currently receive inadequate attention from the military and the medical profession. Perhaps most troubling, Karl Eikenberry raises the issue of the "political ownership" of the military in an era of all-volunteer service, citing the argument that, absent the political protest common to the draft era, government decision-makers felt free to carry out military operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Andrew Bacevich goes further, writing that "it's no longer our army; it hasn't been for years; it's theirs [the government's] and they intend to keep it." Looking at such issues as who serves and why, the impact of non-uniformed "contractors" in the war zone, and the growing role of women in combat, this volume brings together leading thinkers who illuminate the American military at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Author : Simon Reich,Peter Dombrowski
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501714641

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The End of Grand Strategy by Simon Reich,Peter Dombrowski Pdf

In 'The End of Grand Strategy', Simon Reich and Peter Dombrowski challenge this common view. They eschew prescription in favour of describing and explaining what America's military actually does. They argue that each presidental administration inevitably resorts to each of the six variant of grand strategy that they implement simultaneously as a result of a series of fundamental recent changes - what they term 'calibrated strategies.' Reich and Dombrowski support their controversial argument by examining six major maritime operations, stretching from America's shores to every region of the globe. Each of these operations reflects one major variant of strategy. They conclude that grand strategy, as we know it, is dead.

Author : Marcus Schulzke
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472220410

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Twenty-First Century Military Innovation by Marcus Schulzke Pdf

Contemporary war is as much a quest for decisive technological, organizational, and doctrinal superiority before the fighting starts as it is an effort to destroy enemy militaries during battle. Armed forces that are not actively fighting are instead actively reengineering themselves for success in the next fight and imagining what that next fight may look like. Twenty-First Century Military Innovation outlines the most theoretically important themes in contemporary warfare, especially as these appear in distinctive innovations that signal changes in states’ warfighting capacities and their political goals. Marcus Schulzke examines eight case studies that illustrate the overall direction of military innovation and important underlying themes. He devotes three chapters to new weapons technologies (drones, cyberweapons, and nonlethal weapons), two chapters to changes in the composition of state military forces (private military contractors and special operations forces), and three chapters to strategic and tactical changes (targeted killing, population-centric counterinsurgency, and degradation). Each case study includes an accessible introduction to the topic area, an overview of the ongoing scholarly debates surrounding that topic, and the most important theoretical implications. An engaging overview of the themes that emerge with military innovation, this book will also attract readers interested in particular topic areas.

Author : Christian Enemark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136261213

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Armed Drones and the Ethics of War by Christian Enemark Pdf

This book assesses the ethical implications of using armed unmanned aerial vehicles (‘hunter-killer drones’) in contemporary conflicts. The American way of war is trending away from the heroic and towards the post-heroic, driven by a political preference for air-powered management of strategic risks and the reduction of physical risk to US personnel. The recent use of drones in the War on Terror has demonstrated the power of this technology to transcend time and space, but there has been relatively little debate in the United States and elsewhere over the embrace of what might be regarded as politically desirable and yet morally worrisome: risk-free killing. Arguably, the absence of a relationship of mutual risk between putative combatants poses a fundamental challenge to the status of war as something morally distinguishable from other forms of violence, and it also undermines the professional virtue of the warrior as a courageous risk-taker. This book considers the use of armed drones in the light of ethical principles that are intended to guard against unjust increases in the incidence and lethality of armed conflict. The evidence and arguments presented indicate that, in some respects, the use of armed drones is to be welcomed as an ethically superior mode of warfare. Over time, however, their continued and increased use is likely to generate more challenges than solutions, and perhaps do more harm than good. This book will be of much interest to students of the ethics of war, airpower, counter-terrorism, strategic studies and security studies in general.

Author : Charles Cleveland,Benjamin M. Jensen,Arnel David,Susan F. Bryant
Publisher : Rapid Communications in Confli
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 160497950X

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Military Strategy for the 21st Century by Charles Cleveland,Benjamin M. Jensen,Arnel David,Susan F. Bryant Pdf

"This book, written by members of the Chief of Staff of the Army's Strategic Studies Group, takes an innovative approach to determining how the United States can counter extremist groups and engage in great power competition in the twenty first century. After proposing that the answer lies in switching the focus of current US strategy from the physical domain on which conflict occurs to the social, political, and cultural networks that comprise the human domain in which it occurs, it develops a new operating concept for conducting operations within that domain. This is an important book for those in security studies and international relations."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Peter J. Dombrowski
Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : OSU:32435081764730

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Naval Power in the Twenty-first Century by Peter J. Dombrowski Pdf

Author : Nikolas K. Gvosdev,Derek S. Reveron,John A. Cloud
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190680015

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The Oxford Handbook of U.S. National Security by Nikolas K. Gvosdev,Derek S. Reveron,John A. Cloud Pdf

"The Oxford Handbook of US National Security frames the context, institutions, and processes the US government uses to advance national interests through foreign policy, government institutions, and grand strategy. Contributors examine contemporary national security challenges and the processes and tools used to improve national security."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Don M. Snider,John A. Nagl,Tony Pfaff
Publisher : Strategic Studies Institute
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1999-12
Category : Command of troops
ISBN : 1584870117

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Army Professionalism, the Military Ethic, and Officership in the 21st Century by Don M. Snider,John A. Nagl,Tony Pfaff Pdf

This paper, jointly sponsored by SSI and CPME, is intended to be the first of many whose purpose is to promote scholarship on Officership and the Professional Military Ethic as well as enhance the discussion of military professionalism within the Army and sister services.

Author : Anthony King
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509543670

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Urban Warfare in the Twenty-First Century by Anthony King Pdf

Warfare has migrated into cities. From Mosul to Mumbai, Aleppo to Marawi, the major military battles of the twenty-first century have taken place in densely populated urban areas. Why has this happened? What are the defining characteristics of urban warfare today? What are its military and political implications? Leading sociologist Anthony King answers these critical questions through close analysis of recent urban battles and their historical antecedents. Exploring the changing typography and evolving tactics of the urban battlescape, he shows that although not all methods used in urban warfare are new, operations in cities today have become highly distinctive. Urban warfare has coalesced into gruelling micro-sieges, which extend from street level – and below – to the airspace high above the city, as combatants fight for individual buildings, streets and districts. At the same time, digitalized social media and information networks communicate these battles to global audiences across an urban archipelago, with these spectators often becoming active participants in the fight. A timely reminder of the costs and the horror of war and violence in cities, this book offers an invaluable interdisciplinary introduction to urban warfare in the new millennium for students of international security, urban studies and military science, as well as military professionals.

Author : Training and Doctrine Command,U. S. Department of the Army
Publisher : Militarybookshop.CompanyUK
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1780391536

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A Military Guide to Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century by Training and Doctrine Command,U. S. Department of the Army Pdf

"A Military Guide to Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century" is a capstone reference guide prepared under the direction of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), TRADOC G2 as a capstone reference guide on terrorism. This guide addresses foreign and domestic threats against the United States of America in a contemporary operational environment (COE). This informational handbook supports institutional training, professional military education, and operational missions for U.S. military forces in the War on Terrorism (WOT). This document provides an introduction to the nature of terrorism and recognition of terrorist threats to U.S. military forces. A common situational awareness by U.S. military forces considers three principal venues for armed forces: forces that are deployed, forces that are in transit to or from an operational mission, and forces that are primarily installation or institution support. Neither a counterterrorism directive nor antiterrorism manual, this handbook complements but does not replace Army training and intelligence products on terrorism. A selected bibliography presents citations for detailed study of specific terrorism topics.