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Parameters – Full Issue – Winter 2019
Get PDFFEATURES: War Colleges: A Debate articles by Richard D. Hooker Jr. and Richard A. Lacquement Jr. Afghanistan’s Lessons: Part II articles by Sten Rynning, Harald Høiback, and Rhys Crawley. Strategic Lieutenants articles by Scott A. Silverstone and An Jacob
Recommendations for Success in Afghanistan
Get PDFThe United States will soon enter the 18th year of combat operations in Afghanistan. During that time, multiple approaches to stabilize the country have been tried, including support to regional security initiatives, “nation-building,” counterinsurgency, counternarcotics, counterterrorism, and “train and equip.” The constellation of anti-government elements known collectively as the Taliban continues to refuse reconciliation or a negotiated peace under the existing Afghan constitution.https://press.armywarcollege.edu/monographs/1372/thumbnail.jp
Grand Strategy is Attrition: The Logic of Integrating Various Forms of Power in Conflict
Get PDFIn this monograph, Dr. Lukas Milevski examines the logic of grand strategy in practice, defined by its most basic building block—combining military and non-military power in war. He lays out competing visions of how to define grand strategy and why the aforementioned building block is the most fundamental. The monograph establishes the essential logic of military power through annihilation and exhaustion or attrition as well as through control of the opponent’s freedom of action. This baseline understanding of strategic action and effect in war allows an exploration of how the utility and meaning of non-military instruments change between peacetime and wartime and how they may contribute to the strategic effort and includes discussion of specific examples such as the U.S. interwar war plans and the Stuxnet cyberattack on Iranian nuclear facilities. The author also links this combination to present-day Russian and Chinese attempts at mixing military and non-military power.https://press.armywarcollege.edu/monographs/1376/thumbnail.jp
US Army in the Iraq War Volume 2 Surge and Withdrawal
Get PDFhttps://press.armywarcollege.edu/monographs/1932/thumbnail.jp