The attacks of September 11, 2001, represented the beginning of what President Bush has called “a new kind of war.” While terrorism itself has long been on our spectrum of real and immediate threats, the magnitude of the attacks and…
The author argues that American policymakers must take an approach based on “principled judgment” when deciding on the use of force. The 1990s showed the extremes of deciding when and how to use force, one of the central elements of…
On April 11-13, 2000, the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute sponsored a major conference that examined what the Department of Defense must do “to insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence . . ., given the increasing…