The Quadrennial Defense Review and U.S. Defense Policy, 2006-2025
Much ink has been spilled in the aftermath of the Pentagon’s Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) since its release in...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
The Quadrennial Defense Review and U.S. Defense Policy, 2006-2025
A nation must think before it acts.
Categories for E-Notes
Balkan Ghost
Slobodan Milosevic, former President of Yugoslavia, died on March 11, 2006, in a Dutch prison before he could have...
“The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy”: A Working Paper That Does Not Work
John J. Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, and Stephen...
Paul Pillar on Iraq
Paul Pillar’s article in the March/April 2006 Foreign Affairs, “Intelligence, Policy, and the War in Iraq” makes sad reading. Pillar,...
The Future of American Military Strategy: A Conference Report
The Foreign Policy Research Institute held a conference on the future of American military strategy on 5 December 2005...
Complex Irregular Warfare
The current U.S. National Defense Strategy identifies irregular challengers as an increasingly salient problem. The ongoing Quadrennial Defense Review...
A Balanced Force Structure to Achieve a Liberal World Order
The New Security Environment The post-9/11 security environment is characterized by uncertainty and the need to be prepared to...
Sharon and Israel’s Future
The stroke that felled Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on January 4, 2006, deprived Israel of its dominant political leader...
Torture And The CIA
Recent months have seen a spate of media reporting about the CIA’s involvement with the torture of individuals captured...
The Future of the US Army
Beyond theory and beyond the important issue of how we should be fighting the war on terrorism, what is...