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\u3ci\u3eRaven Sentry\u3c/i\u3e: Employing AI for Indications and Warnings in Afghanistan
Get PDFThis article examines Raven Sentry, a project that employed artificial intelligence to provide advance warning of insurgent attacks in Afghanistan. During 2019 and 2020, the Resolute Support Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence (J2) benefited from a command culture open to innovation, the urgency created by the US drawdown, and a uniquely talented group of personnel that, aided by commercial sector experts, built an AI system that helped predict attacks. The war’s end cut Raven Sentry short, but the experience provides important lessons on AI and the conditions necessary for successful innovation
Book Review: The Decline and Fall of Republican Afghanistan
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Reviewed by Dr. Whitney Grespin, visiting research fellow, King\u27s College London, UK Defence Academy; non-resident fellow, Joint Special Operations University; and Africa Regional Program Lead, DSCA/DSCU Institute for Security Governance
Foreign-policy expert Dr. Whitney Grespin reviews a “deservedly cutting reflection on mistakes made and lessons not learned during the Afghanistan War.” She notes the book’s “valuable perspective,” as one of the authors was in Kabul when it fell. Distilling the book’s contents into a detailed, useful overview, Grespin provides a helpful roadmap for readers interested in these topics and concludes the book is “[a] necessary read for practitioners engaged in security assistance.”https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters_bookshelf/1050/thumbnail.jp
Exploring Strategy in India
Get PDFThis review essay discusses Rajesh Basrur\u27s Subcontinental Drift: Domestic Politics and India’s Foreign Policy and Feroz Hassan Khan\u27s Subcontinent Adrift: Strategic Futures of South Asia and explores Indian strategy, especially concerning domestic issues and the relationship between Pakistan and India. The review concludes by noting that the two books agree on the oversized role of the Pakistani military in India’s national politics, where most security and foreign policy decisions are directed toward Pakistan
Book Review: The Islamic State in Afghanistan and Pakistan: Strategic Alliances and Rivalries
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Reviewed by Thomas F. Lynch III, PhD, Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of National Strategic Studies, National Defense University
Dr. Thomas F. Lynch III offers his expertise in a thoughtful review of this essential primer on the Islamic-State Khorasan Province (ISK). While finding the book\u27s idea that the ISK is currently a latent, global terrorist threat to be less persuasive, Lynch highlights the value of author Amira Jadoon\u27s unique ability to write with an appropriate level of depth about the complexity of tribal groups, subgroups, fragments, and splinters and notes that There is no other published work today with such a high level of insight into this enduring regional terrorist group.https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters_bookshelf/1038/thumbnail.jp
Book Review: Violence in Defeat: The Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944–1945
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Reviewed by Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Gipper, US Air Force, faculty development scholar, Air University
Through an analysis of the German Wehrmacht\u27s barbarization toward the end of World War II, Violence in Defeat provides a useful and cautionary case study on military effectiveness, distinction, and necessity. Reviewer Daniel Gipper highlights the book\u27s particular contributions to the literature, particularly the examination of German violence against German citizens, which Gipper notes is a widely overlooked event. Gipper also notes the book\u27s value for reexamining long-standing assumptions about unit cohesion.https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters_bookshelf/1037/thumbnail.jp
Book Review: Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine
Get PDFAuthors: David Petraeus and Andrew Roberts
Reviewed by Dr. John A. Nagl, professor of warfighting studies, US Army War College
Teaser: Dr. John A. Nagl provides readers a roadmap to navigate—and a lens with which to interpret—General David Petraeus and Andrew Roberts\u27s best-selling book, Conflict, which Nagl considers \u27[t]he closest thing to a memoir of Petraeus and likely . . . the best first-person account in history of [Petraeus\u27s] efforts and results in Iraq and Afghanistan that made him the most important Army officer of his generation. Nagl focuses on what he believes are Petraeus\u27s main contributions to the book (the chapters on Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan) and calls the chapter on Iraq the heart of the book. He also highlights the book\u27s value to [f]uture commanders and staff officers and to [a]ll Army officers and national security officials, who will benefit from learning how Petraeus engaged with the four major tasks regarding big ideas that all leaders must master.https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters_bookshelf/1043/thumbnail.jp
Weapons of Influence: Unpacking China’s Global Arms Strategy
Get PDFThis article explores the strategic motivations behind China’s arms sales and uses Chinese-language analyses from influential party and military institutions to identify five main interests driving Chinese arms exports: protecting economic investments, gaining influence in conflict zones, enhancing partner military capabilities, building diplomatic relationships, and offsetting research and development costs. The article integrates primary sources to reveal how arms sales advance Beijing’s geopolitical aims. The findings highlight how China’s arms trade shapes partner and adversary military capabilities and underscore the need for the United States and its allies to compete in the arms trade to mitigate China’s growing influence
From the Acting Editor in Chief
Get PDFWelcome to the Winter 2024¬–25 issue of Parameters. This issue consists of an In Focus special commentary, three forums (Indo-Pacific, Security Cooperation, and Historical Studies), and the regular Civil-Military Relations Corner installment