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Desert Storm aims to examine the lessons of the Gulf War from a
high-level, strategic defense perspective. It opens up an informed
debate concerning the true military and geopolitical lessons of the
conflict.
This book is the product of a continuing joint effort by the Korea
Institute for Defense Analyses and the Washington-based Center for
Strategic and International Studies to find roads to a lasting
settlement of the dangerous intra-Korean confrontation.
From Saddam Hussein's first bold threats in 1990 to the stunning
ground phase of Desert Storm in early 1991, the crisis in the Gulf
captured the world's attention. This high-tech, low-cost war was
televised nightly from beginning to end, accompanied by on-the-spot
interpretations of strategy and its implications. But what did we
learn from this crisis? Did the United States bungle its attempts
at discouraging Saddam's aggressive actions, or is deterrence
simply not a reliable foreign policy tool? Are chemical weapons
truly the "poor man's atom bomb"? Does the war represent a good
model for future crises, or did circumstances make this war more of
an anomaly than a precedent? How did the ail-volunteer U.S. force
perform? By combining exciting, detailed vignettes of the crisis
with insightful discussions of its consequences, this book opens up
an informed debate concerning the true military and geopolitical
lessons of the conflict. Representing a distillation of the best
thinking on defense and foreign policy in Washington, Desert Storm
also incorporates the testimony of the inside players during the
crisis-the people who actually planned and fought the war.
Combining academic rigor and in-depth military expertise, the
authors challenge the complacency of the emerging conventional
wisdom regarding the conflict, taking us beyond mere chronicling
and instant analysis to a riveting reenactment of the war and the
serious consideration of its long-term implications.
This book is the product of a continuing joint effort by the Korea
Institute for Defense Analyses and the Washington-based Center for
Strategic and International Studies to find roads to a lasting
settlement of the dangerous intra-Korean confrontation.
A sense of malaise and uncertainty surrounds the so-called war on
terror. This volume offers a bold rethinking of the central
challenge in that conflict: the rise of radical Islamism. Mazarr
argues that this movement represents the latest in a series of
anti-modern political and philosophical rebellions: in its causes,
the shape of its ideology, and its social consequences, the
movement shares much in common with German fascism, Russian
revolutionary doctrines, and Japanese imperialist nationalism. The
book builds a model of how anti-modern movements arise and suggests
broader truths about the changing character of world politics and
the psychological basis of national security in a globalized world.
It concludes with a critique of the war on terror as currently
pursued and a wide-ranging proposal for a strikingly different
approach to the challenge of this latest challenge to modernity.
A sense of malaise and uncertainty surrounds the so-called war on
terror. This volume offers a bold rethinking of the central
challenge in that conflict: the rise of radical Islamism. Mazarr
argues that this movement represents the latest in a series of
anti-modern political and philosophical rebellions: in its causes,
the shape of its ideology, and its social consequences, the
movement shares much in common with German fascism, Russian
revolutionary doctrines, and Japanese imperialist nationalism. The
book builds a model of how anti-modern movements arise and suggests
broader truths about the changing character of world politics and
the psychological basis of national security in a globalized world.
It concludes with a critique of the war on terror as currently
pursued and a wide-ranging proposal for a strikingly different
approach to the challenge of this latest challenge to modernity.
Leap of Faith is the first comprehensive and objective history of
the decision to invade Iraq. Based on nine years of research, over
100 interviews with participants in the drama, and information from
hundreds of U.S. and British declassified documents, Mike Mazarr
shows how the most impressive and experienced foreign policy team
made the greatest strategic folly of the century. Mazarr reveals
that a combination of messianic certainty, cultural deference, and
administrative infighting and incompetence allowed the decision to
be made without any examination of the ways in which it could
unravel. So when it did, no one had any answers. Leap of Faith is a
parable of how good intentions can go wrong, and a cautionary tale
about any international entanglement.
This book examines the role of risk management in the recent
financial crisis and applies lessons from there to the national
security realm. It rethinks the way risk contributes to strategy,
with insights relevant to practitioners and scholars in national
security as well as business. Over the past few years, the concept
of risk has become one of the most commonly discussed issues in
national security planning. And yet the experiences of the
2007-2008 financial crisis demonstrated critical limitations in
institutional efforts to control risk. The most elaborate and
complex risk procedures could not cure skewed incentives, cognitive
biases, groupthink, and a dozen other human factors that led
companies to take excessive risk. By embracing risk management, the
national security enterprise may be turning to a discipline just as
it has been discredited.
This book examines the role of risk management in the recent
financial crisis and applies lessons from there to the national
security realm. It rethinks the way risk contributes to strategy,
with insights relevant to practitioners and scholars in national
security as well as business. Over the past few years, the concept
of risk has become one of the most commonly discussed issues in
national security planning. And yet the experiences of the
2007-2008 financial crisis demonstrated critical limitations in
institutional efforts to control risk. The most elaborate and
complex risk procedures could not cure skewed incentives, cognitive
biases, groupthink, and a dozen other human factors that led
companies to take excessive risk. By embracing risk management, the
national security enterprise may be turning to a discipline just as
it has been discredited.
This manuscript examines the increasingly important form of rivalry
and statecraft that has become known as "gray zone strategies." In
regions from Eastern Europe to the South China Sea, such tactics in
the hands of ambitious regional powers pose a growing challenge to
U.S. and allied interests. This monograph aims to provide a broad
introduction to the issue to help leaders in the U.S. Army and the
wider joint Department of Defense and national security community
better understand this challenge. Dr. Michael Mazarr, a Senior
Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation and Associate Program
Director of the Army's Arroyo Center there, defines the issue,
examines the most notable current cases of gray zone strategies,
offers several hypotheses about the nature of this form of
conflict, and suggests a number of policy responses. The monograph
emphasizes that many gray zone tools and techniques have been
employed for centuries.
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