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Episode 7: Japanese Threat Perceptions and the Taiwan Problem
No full textA discussion with guest Dr. Ayumi Teraoka concerning Japanese threat perceptions relating to Taiwan, the U.S.-Taiwan aliance, and the U.S. hub-and-spokes model in East Asia.
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Ayumi Teraoka, PhD, is an America in the World Consortium postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on international security, alliance politics, and Japanese foreign policy. She earned her doctorate from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs.https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/seapower/1006/thumbnail.jp
Episode 33: Karl Von Clausewitz
No full textIn this episode, Jon O’Gorman hosts Vanya Bellinger in discussing the author of On War. First, we discuss if Clausewitz was a product or a critic of the Prussian military reform movement. We then move to the importantance of studying Clausewitz\u27s experience as an officer and military practitioner to understand his theory. We talk about Clausewitz relationship to mentor Prussian Gen. Scharnhorst. We also speak about the Prussian military reform school that helped beat Napoleon and why the same school failed so spectacularly in the first half of the twentieth century with the Schlieffen Plan. Lastly, we talk about Marie Von Clausewitz and her relationship with her husband and the book On War.https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/profiles-in-strategy/1032/thumbnail.jp
Expanding Space for Women in the Security Sector: A Philippine Case Study
Get PDFMany of the provinces in the Philippines still have small enclaves populated by armed rebel groups and/or organized criminal syndicates. These groups have the capability to disrupt the security, stability and development progress of communities. Women pay a disproportionately high price during armed conflict as existing inequalities are magnified and women become more vulnerable to sexual violence. Despite the significant role of women in peace and conflict, women are underrepresented in spaces dealing with conflict management, peacekeeping and peacebuilding.
The session looks at security sector institutions in the Philippines, particularly the institutional responses on mainstreaming the agenda of women, peace, and security. It argues that interventions and affirmative actions on gender mainstreaming, while notable, are still obviously lacking. Pushing and expanding the boundaries of gender rights in security discourses, especially in the context of a non-international armed conflict, remain a challenge.https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/wps/1003/thumbnail.jp
Women in Disarmament, Non-Proliferation, and Arms Control
Get PDFThis presentation provides an overview of the similar principles and shared tenets of the UN Security Council’s WPS Agenda and those established by the collective of 193 UN Member States in the General Assembly on Women, Disarmament, Non-Proliferation, and Arms Control. The author argues that applying a gender lens to recruitment, participation, promotion, leadership inclusiveness, and education may correct the noticeable gender imbalance in disarmament, non-proliferation, and arms control, where women are underrepresented at all levels. Empowering women in WMD non-proliferation, arms control, and disarmament negotiations and governance will underwrite global peace and security at a time when new approaches and synergies are sought in order to counter grave and persistent WMD threats and violent extremism.https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/wps/1002/thumbnail.jp
Women, Peace, and Security and Defense Objective 1: Assessing Meaningful Participation of Women in U.S. Army Combat Arms Units
Get PDFDefense Objective 1 in the U.S. Department of Defense WPS Strategic Framework and Implementation Plan (SFIP) focuses on ensuring the DOD exemplifies an organization that “allows for women’s meaningful participation” across the U.S. military. The ban on women in combat arms jobs was long seen as one of the most significant structural barriers to women’s meaningful participation in the U.S. Army, denying women access to promotion to the highest echelons of military leadership—which often includes officers who come from the combat arms branches—as well as generating a culture that viewed women as second-class citizens within the military. In 2015, DOD lifted the ban on women in combat arms jobs, but there is more to be done to ensure successful gender integration.
This presentation will include an analysis of women’s integration into U.S. Army combat arms jobs through the lens of WPS and Defense Objective 1 of the DOD SFIP: examine a concrete and actionable definition of “meaningful participation” within the military context; assess meaningful participation of women in U.S. Army combat arms jobs thus far; and make recommendations for the U.S. Army to remove barriers to women’s meaningful participation in combat arms—leading to greater mission, functional, and operational effectiveness.https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/wps/1024/thumbnail.jp
The Future of Precision-Strike Warfare—Strategic Dynamics of Mature Military Revolutions
Get PDFThe precision conventional revolution, which yielded early U.S. military successes, is entering a more mature phase. Future great-power wars could tend toward protracted conflicts as superpowers seek to coerce each other without escalating to nuclear warfare. The proliferation and massing of precision conventional weapons may worsen such conventional military stalemates, with each side eviscerating the other’s power-projection capabilities
The Strategic Use of Ransomware Operations as a Method of Warfare
Get PDFThis article examines the potential use and legal limitations of ransomware to achieve strategic effects in armed conflicts. Ransomware is defined here as the temporary encryption of data until some pre-condition is met to release the encryption. The article focuses on international law as applicable to a State’s use of ransomware against another State, where both are parties to an existing international armed conflict. The author finds that international humanitarian law does not currently prohibit most uses of ransomware against non-military related targets in armed conflicts. While the encryption of data may be a legal violation when it inhibits the functionality of specific protected categories, civilian data cannot be said to have per se protection. This argument is strengthened when considered in the context of temporary encryption, as opposed to permanent corruption. Recognizing the potential dangers presented by the use of ransomware in armed conflicts, this article identifies primary legal and ethical questions that States must resolve to protect non-military related data from ransomware operations in armed conflicts