What is a MiPAL?

MiPALs are published by the National Defense University (NDU) Library as a current awareness service for MERLN users; our objective is to provide access to key U.S. policy statements on the country or topic of the MiPAL.

While MiPALs emphasize U.S. military policy, each MiPAL includes resources analyzing the topic from governmental and non-governmental sources, including think tanks and scholarly journals. All documents are available full-text on the internet. Some may be available only through commercial databases; these are clearly identified.

Each MiPAL is accompanied by an archive.  The current MiPAL contains items released in the last 12 months.  Older material is contained in the archive. 

Available MiPALs:

Afghanistan  •  Central Asia  •  China  •  Colombia  •  Haiti  •  India  •  Iran  •  Iraq  •  North Korea  •  Pakistan  •  Russia  •  Saudi Arabia  •  Syria

Homeland Security  •  National Security Strategy  •  Terrorism  •   Transformation  •  Weapons of Mass Destruction

Regional Policy Overviews:

Africa •  East Asia & the Pacific  •  Europe & Eurasia  •  Near East & North Africa  •  South & Central Asia  •  Western Hemisphere

Recursos Militares - Guía a los recursos militares jurídicos en América latina, América del Norte y el Caribe (Guide to legal military resources from Latin America, North America, and the Caribbean).