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Protecting NATO’s Advantage in Space
No full textDuring the Cold War, space was the private reserve of the two superpowers. But American allies drew great benefits from U.S. investment in space. For the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), it was the “high frontier” from which we could support collective defense and project power with near impunity. Today, space is a shared domain in which we operate together with more and more countries—friends and allies as well as potential adversaries. It is a domain that is increasingly challenged, and the nature of these challenges can be characterized by “three Cs”: congested, contested, and competitive.https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/transatlantic-currents/1004/thumbnail.jp
Domestic Event Support Operations (DESO)
No full textThis paper draws heavily on Australian experience in the last dozen years, during which time the country hosted a Summer Olympics and Paralympics, a Commonworth Games, an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders Meeting, and a number of other events, all of which required DESO to be mounted.https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/defense-tech-papers/1019/thumbnail.jp
Strategic Reflections: Operation Iraqi Freedom, July 2004 - February 2007
No full textOperations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom were the first major wars of the 21st century. They will not be the last. They have significantly impacted how the U.S. Government and military think about prosecuting wars. They will have a generational impact on the U.S. military, as its future leaders, particularly those in the ground forces, will for decades be men and women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is imperative that leaders at all levels, both military and civilian, share their experiences to ensure that we, as a military and as a country, gain appropriate insights for the future.https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/books-and-book-chapters/1015/thumbnail.jp
Globalization of S&T: Key Challenges Facing DOD
No full textThis paper employs the results of a full economic analysis for the period 2005-2050 to estimate the S&T knowledge production for each of the world’s 17 largest economies. The present work establishes an empirical relationship between an economy’s gross domestic product per capita and its ability to generate S&T knowledge.https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/defense-tech-papers/1017/thumbnail.jp
New Directions in U.S. National Security Strategy, Defense Plans, and Diplomacy: A Review of Official Strategic Documents
No full textWhere are U.S. national security strategy, defense plans, and diplomacy headed in the coming years? An answer to this important question comes from seven official studies that have been issued during 2010.https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/books-and-book-chapters/1019/thumbnail.jp
Brazil and the United States: The Need for Strategic Engagement
No full textWashington’s identification of Brazil with Latin America and the Third World hampers its appreciation of Brazil’s power and importance to the United States. It is true that Brazil is geographically part of Latin America, and it is also true that Brazil, a founder of the Group of 77, was, with India, among the original leaders of the “Third World.”https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/strategic-forums/1046/thumbnail.jp
PRISM Vol. 2, No. 2
No full textPRISM is published by the National Defense University Press for the Center for Complex Operations. PRISM is a security studies journal chartered to inform members of U.S. Federal Agencies, allies, and other partners on complex and integrated national security operations; reconstruction and nationbuilding; relevant policy and strategy; lessons learned; and developments in training and education to transform America\u27s security and development apparatus to meet tomorrow\u27s challenges better while promoting freedom today.https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/prism-full-issue/1005/thumbnail.jp
Secret Weapon: High-value Target Teams as an Organizational Innovation
No full textThis study argues that interagency teams were a major catalyst in turning around the Iraq War, and that they will disappear from America’s arsenal unless the knowledge base supporting the innovation can be secured. Most explanations credit the dramatic reduction in violence in Iraq between 2007 and 2008 to new U.S. leadership, the surge in U.S. forces, and/or U.S. financial support to Sunni tribal leaders. In contrast, we argue that the United States employed an underappreciated organizational innovation—interagency teams—to put insurgent clandestine organizations on the defensive and give population security measures a chance to take effect.https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/inss-strategic-perspectives/1038/thumbnail.jp
Finland, Sweden, and NATO: From “Virtual” to Formal Allies?
No full textThe “Open Door” policy of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has been an article of faith for Allies and aspirants alike for more than a decade. Its most recent formulation, approved at the November 2010 Lisbon Summit, states: “The door to NATO membership remains fully open to all European democracies which share the values of our Alliance, which are willing and able to assume the responsibilities and obligations of membership, and whose inclusion can contribute to common security and stability.”https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/strategic-forums/1047/thumbnail.jp
Analysis of the Threat of Genetically Modified Organisms for Biological Warfare
No full textThis study seeks to better understand the evaluation of the potential threats posed by advances in biotechnology, especially genetically modified organisms and synthetic biology. It narrows the scope of consideration into two parts: defining a catastrophic biological attack focused on bioterrorism and that this attack would be restricted to the United States.https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/defense-tech-papers/1026/thumbnail.jp