In this monograph, Dr. Mohammed El-Katiri focuses on the variety of challenges that face reform attempts in the post-revolution Arab countries. He examines underlying factors that have prevented new political elites and post-revolution institutions from successfully implementing essential reforms. He…
American Power in Transition: Isaiah Wilson, James E. Goodby and Ken Weisbrode, Anna Simons. Fighting Irregular Fighters: Sibylle Scheipers, Robert J. Bunker, Robert L. Feldman and Michel Ben Arrous. Conflict by Other Means: David J. Katz, Juan Zarate, Douglas W.…
SOLLIMS Sampler – Strategic Lessons In Peacekeeping and Stability Operations. Prior to the SOLLIMS Sampler there was the Strategic Lessons Sampler. This was the first issue. This publication is designed to provide senior leaders and their staffs with key lessons…
This monograph builds upon the themes presented in Armstrong and Chura-Beaver’s previous works, Harnessing Postconflict Transitions: A Conceptual Primer (2010) and Practitioner Frameworks on the Host-Nation Role in Transition to Determine how Countries Contribute to their Own Security Transitions (2010).
SOLLIMS Sampler providing a “sample” of lessons related to Transition from submitted O&Rs. This lessons-learned compendium contains just a sample – thus the title of “sampler” – of the observations, insights, and lessons related to Economic Stabilization available in the…
The author assesses U.S. security interests and military activities in Central Asia. She notes that strengthening the Central Asian states against terrorism and assisting their transition to stable and prosperous nations are difficult and fraught with danger. In particular, there…
The following two articles were written during and immediately after the war in Kosovo. The first is an adaptation of an earlier work written after a trip to Asia in 1998. In that essay, I suggested that foreign militaries were…
In April 1995, the Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute held its annual Strategy Conference. This year’s theme was ‘Strategy During the Lean Years: Learning From the Past and the Present.’ Professor Alex Roland, Professor of History at Duke University…