•  Disaster Preparedness: Anticipating the Worst Case Scenario

    Disaster Preparedness: Anticipating the Worst Case Scenario

    Disaster Preparedness: Anticipating the Worst Case Scenario Arthur L Bradshaw, Dr Kent H Butts, Prof Bernard F Griffard Issue Paper by the US Army War College, Center for Strategic Leadership "South Asia, geologically speaking, is a very dynamic region. Its northern boundaries follow the convergence of the Indian and Eurasian Plates, while its southern edge is contained within the Ring of Fire. Although the major collision of continents that began the formation of the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau occurred 50 million years ago, South Asia is still a seismically active area. Over the last century it has experienced eighteen earthquakes with a magnitude greater than 6.0. Approximately every 70 years the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal experiences such a seismic event. More immediately, it is estimated that 350,000 lives were lost and potentially millions left homeless in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand from the 9.0 earthquake and resulting tsunami that occurred off Indonesia on December 26, 2004. "
    • Published On: 3/15/2005
  •  Golden Spear Task Force Meeting and Initial Planning Conference

    Golden Spear Task Force Meeting and Initial Planning Conference

    Golden Spear Task Force Meeting and Initial Planning Conference Mr Scott T Forster Issue Paper by the US Army War College, Center for Strategic Leadership "The U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) hosted the Golden Spear Task Force Meeting and Initial Planning Conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 14-17 February 2005. The Golden Spear National Delegates, designated as National Focal Point (NFP) members, were present from Kenya, Burundi, Egypt, Seychelles, Ethiopia, and Uganda while U.S. participation included USCENTCOM, United States European Command (USEUCOM), National Defense University (NDU) African Centre for Strategic Studies (ACSS), and the U.S. Army War College."
    • Published On: 3/15/2005
  •  Network Enabled Operations in Operation Iraqi Freedom: Initial Impressions

    Network Enabled Operations in Operation Iraqi Freedom: Initial Impressions

    Network Enabled Operations in Operation Iraqi Freedom: Initial Impressions Dennis M Murphy Issue Paper by the US Army War College, Center for Strategic Leadership "The first Gulf War was conducted with legacy systems straddling the industrial and emergent information age. The major combat operations phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), on the other hand, put into practice information age constructs and theory for the first time in warfare and was an impressive success in its speed and lethality. The impact of that network enabled campaign (often referred to as Network Centric Warfare) is the topic of a study conducted by the Center for Strategic Leadership, U.S. Army War College and commissioned by the Office of Force Transformation, U.S. Department of Defense. The study will be completed by the fall of 2005, but first drafts of the study hint at valuable operational and strategic insights."
    • Published On: 3/15/2005
  •  U.S. Southern Command Environmental Security Training Workshop

    U.S. Southern Command Environmental Security Training Workshop

    U.S. Southern Command Environmental Security Training Workshop Dr Kent H Butts, COL Jeffrey C Reynolds, Mr Alex Sonski Issue Paper by the US Army War College, Center for Strategic Leadership "The United States Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) Theater Security Cooperation Program for Central America reached a new level of success with the completion of the Environmental Security Training Workshop in Alajuela, Costa Rica. The seven-day conference graduated 30 military, police, and civilian agency professionals from seven Central American countries in a ceremony attended by regional defense and environmental ministers. This “train the trainer” workshop is the culmination of a nearly decade-long SOUTHCOM, Department of Defense (DOD), and U.S. Army War College Center for Strategic Leadership (CSL) Environmental Security Program."
    • Published On: 3/15/2005
  •  The Collins Center Update Volume 7, Issue 2: January-March 2005

    The Collins Center Update Volume 7, Issue 2: January-March 2005

    The Collins Center Update Volume 7, Issue 2: January-March 2005 Professor John F. Troxell, LTC Thomas P. Kratman, Professor Dennis M. Murphy, Professor James Kievit, Mr. Jeffrey C. Reynolds, Colonel Scott Forster, COL Eugene Thompson, Professor Michael Pasquarett, Mr. Ritchie Dion, Professor B.F. Griffard Collins Center Update by the US Army War College, Center for Strategic Leadership
    • Published On: 3/15/2005
  •  The Collins Center Update Volume 7, Issue 1: October-December 2004

    The Collins Center Update Volume 7, Issue 1: October-December 2004

    The Collins Center Update Volume 7, Issue 1: October-December 2004 Professor B.F. Griffard, LTC John A. Tanzi, COL Eugene L. Thompson, Professor James Kievit, Professor William Waddell Collins Center Update by the US Army War College, Center for Strategic Leadership
    • Published On: 12/15/2004
  •  Combating Terrorism and Enhancing Regional Stability and Security through Disaster Preparedness

    Combating Terrorism and Enhancing Regional Stability and Security through Disaster Preparedness

    Combating Terrorism and Enhancing Regional Stability and Security through Disaster Preparedness Prof Bernard F Griffard, RADM Robert T Moeller, RADM John F Sigler Issue Paper by the US Army War College, Center for Strategic Leadership "Uninterrupted access to and use of critical infrastructure in the Arabian Gulf region are key to the successful prosecution of the Global War on Terror (GWOT). To maintain access and use the U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) and its Gulf Region partners must deny outside organizations the ability to influence these requirements through terrorism. Essential to this will be information sharing and shared capabilities. Regional cooperation is important because terrorist threats vary, both regionally and nationally. To facilitate this endstate, theater security cooperation initiatives that promote regional collaboration are underway to improve national disaster preparedness capabilities and effective disaster preparedness training with partner nations.."
    • Published On: 11/15/2004
  •  Responding to the Unthinkable; the Role(s) of the Military

    Responding to the Unthinkable; the Role(s) of the Military

    Responding to the Unthinkable; the Role(s) of the Military LTC Jeffery A Mcnary Issue Paper by the US Army War College, Center for Strategic Leadership "This workshop series, initiated to explore issues regarding the Army’s Reserve Components and their role in National Security as portrayed in Army wargames and exercises, focused on responding to a Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, or High-yield Explosive (CBRNE) attack on the Homeland. Previous workshops framed general issues of strategic concern for the Army National Guard and the Army Reserve while also examining how well those issues had or had not been represented in key Army simulation exercises. This year’s workshop represented a narrowing of focus to cover a specific area of significant concern – the possibility of “the unthinkable” happening within the next few years, but at the same time it also widened the scope by focusing on an issue that involves the Reserve Components but is not Reserve Component centric."
    • Published On: 11/15/2004
  •  A Nuclear Weapon Detonation in the Homeland

    A Nuclear Weapon Detonation in the Homeland

    A Nuclear Weapon Detonation in the Homeland Prof James O Kievit, LTC Jeffery A Mcnary Issue Paper by the US Army War College, Center for Strategic Leadership "Every day an already challenging security environment grows even more daunting with the continued proliferation of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high-yield explosive (CBRNE) capabilities throughout the world. Each can create clandestine devices for delivery by state-sponsored or non state terrorists. Thus, in the future, perhaps the not so distant future, American political and military leadership actually may have to respond to “the unthinkable”: a successful weapon of mass destruction (WMD) attack by terrorists within the borders of the nation. With that possibility in mind, the United States Army War College (USAWC) recently conducted a focused workshop bringing together over 100 participants from local, regional, state and federal entities at the Center for Strategic Leadership on Carlisle Barracks to review contemporary plans, policies and procedures and discuss developing programs to incorporate military, and especially reserve component (RC) forces into the responses to a hypothetical CBRNE attack within the borders of the United States. Three different attack scenarios were presented – one biological, one radiological, and one nuclear. This paper addresses the workshop’s findings related to response to a nuclear weapon attack. "
    • Published On: 10/15/2004
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