Essays on Strategy 12Spans a broad horizon of strategic topics: the use of sanctions, the relationship with the U.N., and the more subtle changes and responsibilities facing our Operational Commanders. Contents: failed U.S. China Policy, America's Asia Policy, U.S. Post-Cold War Policy, U.S. Security in the 21st Century, Deficits: Restructuring the Military, Planning for War Termination, Planning for CNN Wars, expanding our vision of jointness, military theory and peace operations, the U.S. dilemma in peace operations and change and the operation commander. |
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... optimize our technology, weapons, and tactics while minimizing the risk of collateral damage; and • Comport themselves in a manner to help us achieve consensus in domestic opinion polls, Congress, and the international community?
... optimize our technology, weapons, and tactics while minimizing the risk of collateral damage; and • Comport themselves in a manner to help us achieve consensus in domestic opinion polls, Congress, and the international community?
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Praise for the U.S. policy on Russia's domestic situation is a counter-point to criticism for ignoring Russian influence in the former Yugoslavia. Robert Warrington, who is the first author to write two winning essays in a single year, ...
Praise for the U.S. policy on Russia's domestic situation is a counter-point to criticism for ignoring Russian influence in the former Yugoslavia. Robert Warrington, who is the first author to write two winning essays in a single year, ...
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... The perception of severely limited resources and the need for renewed attention to our economy and domestic issues cannot be ignored; • Action should be multilateral whenever possible; when it can't be, it should be considered very ...
... The perception of severely limited resources and the need for renewed attention to our economy and domestic issues cannot be ignored; • Action should be multilateral whenever possible; when it can't be, it should be considered very ...
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However, the United States implemented the MTCR provisions as part of its domestic law in both the Export Administration Act (EAA) and the Arms Export Control Act (AECA)88 to regulate U.S. exports. Because of increasing concern with ...
However, the United States implemented the MTCR provisions as part of its domestic law in both the Export Administration Act (EAA) and the Arms Export Control Act (AECA)88 to regulate U.S. exports. Because of increasing concern with ...
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In addition, domestic laws, such as the AECA and EAA, are designed to enforce internationally agreed, rather than unilaterally determined, standards. Thus, the appropriate mechanisms are in place to wage the battle.
In addition, domestic laws, such as the AECA and EAA, are designed to enforce internationally agreed, rather than unilaterally determined, standards. Thus, the appropriate mechanisms are in place to wage the battle.
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Page 345 - The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish. ..the kind of war on which they are embarking; neither mistaking it for, nor trying to turn it into, something that is alien to its nature.
Page 254 - The function of news is to signalize an event, the function of truth is to bring to light the hidden facts, to set them into relation with each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act.
Page 387 - New Challenges for UN Military Operations: Implementing an Agenda for Peace," 19 Washington Quarterly, Winter 1993, pp.
Page 263 - From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe.
Page 87 - What is at stake is more than one small country; it is a big idea: a new world order, where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind — peace and security, freedom, and the rule of law.
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Page 399 - For the real environment is altogether too big, too complex, and too fleeting for direct acquaintance. We are not equipped to deal with so much subtlety, so much variety, so many permutations and combinations. And although we have to act in that environment, we have to reconstruct it on a simpler model before we can manage with it.
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| Title | Essays on Strategy 12 |
| Editor | John N. Petrie |
| Publisher | DIANE Publishing, 1996 |
| ISBN | 0788128973, 9780788128974 |
| Length | 415 pages |
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