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Avoiding a Crisis of Confidence in the U.S. Nuclear Deterrent
No full textThe United States needs to modernize and ensure the long-term reliability and responsiveness of its aging nuclear deterrent force and nuclear weapons infrastructure. It cannot otherwise safely reduce its nuclear weapons, responsibly ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, confidently deter and contain challenges from rising or resurgent nuclear-armed near peers, and effectively dissuade allies and partners from acquiring their own nuclear weapons. Modernization is fundamental to avoiding a future crisis of confidence in the U.S. nuclear deterrent.https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/strategic-forums/1060/thumbnail.jp
Prioritizing Strategic Interests in South Asia
No full textFor the last 8 years, the United States has focused its South Asia efforts primarily on Afghanistan. Despite repeated calls in U.S. strategic documents for a regional approach, the public debate has consistently returned to Afghanistan. During the Obama administration’s lengthy 2009 policy review, public discussion narrowed even further to the single issue of troop strength. With the President’s speech on December 1, the debate over the number of troops faded, only to be replaced by discussions about the proposed withdrawal start date of July 2011 and the time necessary to deploy an additional 30,000 troops into Afghanistan. Obviously, the administration has just begun to implement its new plan, and the outcome remains uncertain. It will be years before we can determine if the new policy is successful.https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/strategic-forums/1056/thumbnail.jp
PRISM Vol. 2, No. 1
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/1004/thumbnail.jp
Joint Force Quarterly 57 (2nd Quarter, April 2010)
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PRISM Vol. 1, No. 3
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 intewated 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/1002/thumbnail.jp
PRISM Vol. 1, 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’s security and development apparatus to meet tomorrow’s challenges better while promoting freedom today.https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/prism-full-issue/1001/thumbnail.jp
The Origins of Nunn-Lugar and Cooperative Threat Reduction
No full textIn a 1999 interview, Ashton Carter, a key figure in helping to create and implement the threat reduction program initiated by Senators Sam Nunn (D–GA) and Richard Lugar (R–IN), recalled four visits between 1994 and 1996 to an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) base in Pervomaysk, Ukraine. Planted in the soil of this base were the most powerful rockets mankind has ever made, armed with hundreds of hydrogen bombs and aimed at the United States. In turn, Pervomaysk was itself the target of similar American missiles and weapons. Under the Nunn-Lugar program, the missiles deployed at Pervomaysk by the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces and the silos that housed them were destroyed.https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/wmd-case-studies/1002/thumbnail.jp
Reforming the Inter-American Defense Board
No full textDoes the Inter-American Defense Board (IADB) have a future in an era of multidimensional security? Burdened by a mid-20th-century military structure and a tradition of U.S. leadership, lingering deep antimilitary discomfort within the Organization of American States (OAS), and severely shrinking financial and human resources, the Board, with its secretariat and 27-member council of delegates,1 has not been functionally useful to the OAS or its own membership and is ripe for disestablishment. Perceived to be out of touch, inflexible, and difficult to control, the IADB would cease to exist if funding were denied or markedly reduced.2https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/strategic-forums/1054/thumbnail.jp
Chief of Mission Authority as a Model for National Security Integration
No full textThe inability of the President of the United States to delegate executive authority for integrating the efforts of departments and agencies on priority missions is a major shortcoming in the way the national security system of the U.S. Government functions. Statutorily assigned missions combined with organizational cultures create “stovepipes” that militate against integrated operations. This obstacle to “unity of effort” has received great attention since 9/11 but continues to adversely affect government operations in an era of increasingly multidisciplinary challenges, from counterproliferation to counterinsurgency in Afghanistan. Presidents have tried various approaches to solving the problem: National Security Council committees, “lead agencies,” and “czars,” but none have proven effective.https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/inss-strategic-perspectives/1040/thumbnail.jp
Joint Force Quarterly 56 (1st Quarter, January 2010)
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