Strategic Studies Institute

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15 Publications Found in 1993

Added December 01, 1993

Type: Book

Turkey's Strategic Position at the Crossroads of World Affairs

Authored by Dr. Stephen J. Blank, Dr. William T. Johnsen, Dr. Stephen C. Pelletiere.

This report analyzes the implications of Turkey's policies and the reactions of Turkey's neighbors in three discrete chapters. The authors focus their conclusions and options for U.S. policymakers on the effect of Turkish policies in Europe, the Middle East, and the former Soviet republics. The final chapter summarizes their conclusions with respect to the three regions and provides policy options for continuing U.S.-Turkish relations that are so important in the search for peace and stability in these regions.

Added December 01, 1993

Type: Book

The Future of Insurgency

Authored by Dr. Steven Metz.

Security professionals and strategists are discovering the post-cold war world is as rife with persistent, low-level violence as its predecessors. In fact, many regions are experiencing a rise in the amount of conflict in the absence of restraints previously imposed by the superpowers.

Added December 01, 1993

Type: Monograph

The Military-News Media Relationship: Thinking Forward

Authored by COL Charles W. Ricks, Dr. Rod Lyon, Prof. William T. Tow.

Given the volatile, unstable, and ambiguous environment in which armed forces can find themselves, the actions of field forces have a greater chance than ever before of affecting subsequent strategic decisions made at higher levels. The pressure on field commanders to "get it right the first time" is demonstrably greater than ever.

Added November 01, 1993

Type: Book

The Army and Multinational Peace Operations: Problems and Solutions

Authored by COL William J. Doll.

Effectiveness in multinational peace operations has become an important issue for the Army. In addition to traditional peacekeeping to monitor cease-fires and truces, the Army is now involved in activities such as peace enforcement and the reconstruction of failed states. While the Army has well-established procedures for traditional peacekeeping, it clearly has much to analyze and learn about these new types of multinational peace operations.

Added October 01, 1993

Type: Book

The Future of the United Nations: Implications for Peace Operations

Authored by Dr. Steven Metz.

President Clinton has expressed clear support for greater U.N. effectiveness in the peaceful resolution of conflict and the organization of collective security. This entails finding ways to improve U.N. peacekeeping, peacemaking, and peace-enforcement.

Added July 01, 1993

Type: Book

Paradigm Lost?: Transitions and the Search for a New World Order

Authored by Dr. David Jablonsky.

After every momentous event, there is usually a transition period, in which participants in the events, whether individuals or nation-states, attempt to chart their way into an unfamiliar future. In the United States in this century, there are three such transitions, each focused on America's role in the international arena.

Added June 01, 1993

Type: Book

Afghanistan and Beyond: Reflections on the Future of Warfare

Authored by Dr. Stephen J. Blank.

This report provides an historical analysis of lessons from one of the most important wars of the 1980s, the war in Afghanistan. After reading this study, you will better understand the nature of operations "other than war" in multiethnic states. Many fear that these wars will set the paradigm for wars in the 1990s and will exert pressure on U.S. forces to conduct peacekeeping, peace-enforcement and humanitarian assistance operations in especially dangerous areas.

Added March 01, 1993

Type: Book

The Nature of the Post-Cold War World

Authored by Mr. Charles William Maynes, Mr. William G. Hyland.

The editors of the nation's two leading journals on foreign policy were asked to examine the nature of the post-cold war world and America's transitional role. Charles Maynes believes power will become more evenly distributed as America's military dominance recedes and others' economic power increases. William Hyland advises against grand strategic visions.

Added February 01, 1993

Type: Book

Strategy, Forces and Budgets: Dominant Influences in Executive Decision Making, Post-Cold War, 1989-91

Authored by Dr. Don M. Snider.

The monograph illuminates the critical series of events that resulted in the development of the National Military Strategy of the United States and the "base force."

Added February 01, 1993

Type: Book

Peacekeeping, Peacemaking and Peace-Enforcement: The U.S. Role in the New International Order

Authored by Dr. Donald M. Snow.

The author examines the bases of American military participation in the array of Third World activities falling under the general rubric of peacekeeping and peace-enforcement. The author then examines the effects of these actions on the principle of sovereignty. He next turns to the emerging roles of peacekeeping and peace-enforcement and the conceptual and practical differences between them, and concludes with some cautionary lessons for the Army.

Added February 01, 1993

Type: Book

General George C. Marshall: Strategic Leadership and the Challenges of Reconstituting the Army, 1939-41

Authored by COL John T Nelson, II.

The study of strategic leadership as a formal, analytical concept is relatively new. Therefore, concrete, historical examples of leaders who have wrestled with the width and breadth of strategic-level challenges are of inestimable value.

Added February 01, 1993

Type: Book

Eisenhower as Strategist: The Coherent Use of Military Power in War and Peace

Authored by Dr. Steven Metz.

Few if any American officers performed a wider array of strategic functions as Dwight D. Eisenhower--he was a staff planner in the War Department, wartime commander of a massive coalition force, peacetime Chief of Staff, and Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.

Added February 01, 1993

Type: Monograph

Land Warfare in the 21st Century

Authored by Colonel James M. Dubik, General Gordon R. Sullivan.

Change will inevitably coexist with at least three constants--the root causes of war, the nature of war, and the essence of fighting power.

Added February 01, 1993

Type: Monograph

Domestic Missions for the Armed Forces

Authored by Senator Sam Nunn.

This paper details Senator Nunn's ideas for new missions.

Added January 01, 1993

Type: Book

Alternative World Scenarios for a New Order of Nations

Authored by Dr. Charles W. Taylor.

The author provides a set of plausible scenarios against which users can build policies and decisions while anticipating and judging their consequences before implementation.

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