In the three years since 9-11, the Administration has yet to arrive at a clear definition of the enemy or the aim in the War on Terrorism; to date, American policy has combined ambitious public statements with ambiguity on critical…
Although the Department of National Security and Strategy, U.S. Army War College, uses several of the chapters in this volume as readings for its core course “War, National Policy and Strategy,” this is not a textbook. It does reflect, however,…
The author addresses the ways that the age of terrorism is affecting American grand strategy. He contends that terrorism has made many of the basic concepts of international relations and national security obsolete. Declaring war on a tactic—terrorism—erodes the clarity…
In April 1994, the Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute hosted its Fifth Annual Strategy Conference. The theme was “The Revolution in Military Affairs: Defining an Army for the 21st Century.” After fourteen of the nation’s leading defense scholars presented…