Center for Strategic Leadership

The Center for Strategic Leadership (CSL)’s areas of emphasis are experiential education, Senior Leader education, support to Army Senior Leader research, and support to both US Army War College (USAWC) and Army Senior Leader strategic communication efforts.

Collins Center Update, Volume 14, Issue 2 (Spring 2012)

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The Collins Center Update is quarterly newsletter detailing the activities of the Center for Strategic Leadership, U.S. Army War College. Articles in this issue include: “Strategic Decision Making Exercise (SDME) 2012”, “The Romanian Armed Forces and Joint Staff Planning”, “The…

In Support of the Common Defense Journal – Volume 1

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The Homeland Defense and Security Issues Group of the United States Army War College’s Center for Strategic Leadership is proud to present the initial volume of the In Support of the Common Defense Journal. This journal consists of selected student…

Collins Center Update, Volume 14, Issue 1 (Winter 2012)

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The Collins Center Update is a quarterly newsletter detailing the activities of the Center for Strategic Leadership, U.S. Army War College. Articles in this issue include: “The Strategic Leader Staff Ride Program: A Timely, Relevant and Valuable Program for Our…

Sustainability and National Security

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Military forces must have the land, air, water, and energy/fuel to train and operate today, and into the future. In a world that has finite resources and is increasingly experiencing high competition for these resources, how can these resources be…

Mexico and the Triple Threat

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On October 21st, 2011, the U.S. Army War College Center for Strategic Leadership and the George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute (HSPI) released an issue brief on Mexico and the triple challenge of crime, terrorist tactics, and narco-insurgency. Reviewing…

The Causes and Implications of the 2008 Financial Crisis

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The financial crisis of 2008 shocked markets and led to a global recession. Failure of the financial markets caused economies to shrink resulting in hardship and loss around the world. In our modern connected world, few nations escaped the consequences…

Chinese Five Year Plans: An Economic Catalyst?

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China’s embrace of globalization in a measured manner is a direct result of the communist nation’s reliance on five-year national development plans to guide its growth and economic reform. This gradualist approach has worked well in moving the economy towards…

Economics of National Security: “Unfunding” Terror

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The discussion of how best to deprive terrorist organizations of funding is necessarily broad because of the numerous means people have devised to acquire and move funds for whatever purpose they intend. How seriously the United States takes this issue…

Is Brazil Actually Ready to be a World Economic Power?

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Brazil, a large and populous country, is blessed with an abundance of natural resources and long-standing ties and traditions to Europe; it is seen as a leader among the nations of the South American continent. Brazil’s ascendancy into the world’s…