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Issue Papers
Migration and Border Security: The Military’s Role
With the world’s population in almost constant motion, migration is an everyday reality. According to the United Nations, the global number of migrants more than doubled in recent years offering both opportunities and complications for governments. However, the absence of…
Food Security
Human Security and its seven tenets, Economic Security, Food Security, Health Security, Environmental Security, Personal Security, Community Security and Political Security have added a new dimension to the national security paradigm. For a majority of Americans and western Europeans, sufficient…
Congressional Gridlock, Town Hall Vitriol…and the Information
While massive amounts of information can provide the opportunity to broaden and expand thought, it also can, and does, overwhelm people already constrained by time as they juggle the daily requirements of life.
Toward Making Practice More Perfect in Stability Operations
The likelihood that the United States, alone or as part of a coalition, will undertake stability operations in fragile of failed states remains as high today as it did a decade ago. If true, then the U.S. Army’s participation in…
Should Military Governance Guidance Return to its Roots
A comparison of the 1943 United States Army and Navy Manual of Military Government and Civil Affairs with the latest version of the United States Army Civil Affairs Field Manual, published in 2006, reveals major changes in doctrine in the…
Preparing for NATO Missions: Integrated Force Planning in the Albanian Armed Forces
Albania became a full member of NATO on April 1, 2009. As affirmed by the NATO Secretary General, NATO membership not only brings benefits, but also responsibilities, one of which is the provision of forces capable of operating effectively within…
Enhancing Professional Military Education in the Horn of Africa
United States Africa Command (USAFRICOM) is keenly aware that for small or emerging nations military modernization initiatives have domestic, regional, and international impacts on a nation’s public, trade, finance, aid, and foreign policies. One of USAFRICOM’s essential missions is to…
United States and Mongolia Conduct Exercise Gobi Wolf
Since the United States and Mongolia established diplomatic relations in 1987, a strong, dynamic and growing cooperative partnership has developed, one based on shared values and a commitment to democracy. One of the most successful cooperative exchanges between the two…