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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.
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.
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 unique collection of essays explores the intricacies of how
the Internet has changed the way we currently approach
international security, civil society, and economic development.
The contributors move past the conventional wisdom, tapping new and
original sources to investigate new and unexpected developments.
One essay explores how wiring Russia's nuclear scientists into the
Internet increases the threat of weapons proliferation. Another
looks at Internet-enabled development projects and, despite early
success stories in Bangalore, India, explains why they will fail.
Together the essays in this collection try to bring a dose of
reality to the rose-colored futures many have predicted for world
politics in the Information Age.
Nuclear Weapons in a Transformed World sets out to examine one of
the most pressing issues of the twenty-first century: the future of
nuclear weapons. Acknowledging the growing consensus that pushing
nuclear weapons to the margins of world politics would represent
the wisest political and moral choice for the United States, a
stellar group of scholars has been assembled in this volume to
analyze one solution to the problem: virtual nuclear arsenals.
First proposed by Jonathan Schell in his 1984 book The Abolition ,
this option involves removing all nuclear weapons from operational
status and placing them in a dismantled, 'virtual' condition.
Essays by many of the world's top experts on arms control and
international relations combine to offer the first detailed
assessment of what may be the most promising and provocative idea
in the field today. Thorough, balanced, and probing, Nuclear
Weapons in a Transformed World opens the debate on a concept which
could possibly determine the future of arms control and US policy.
This book offers the first in-depth history of the greatest diplomatic challenge in the post-Cold War era-the North Korean nuclear program and the US and allied efforts to stop it. Michael J. Mazarr explains why North Korea may believe it needs nuclear weapons and how the US has tried to thwart its plans.
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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