E-Notes

In January 2005, FPRI convened a conference on the increasingly important role party politics is playing in foreign policymaking in East Asia, and the constraints foreign policy factors are imposing on party politics in some countries in the region....

Karol Wojtyla, Pope John Paul II, was born in 1920, at the very time his country, Poland, was recovering its independence after more than a century of partition among its neighboring empires. He grew up in a Poland caught...

“Let me emphasize this: Homeland security does not simply rest upon federal action; it requires collective national action. When it comes to the protection of our people, our infrastructure, our companies, our communities, our country, we all have a...

The following is a hypothetical scenario drawn from open-source information. It is intended only as an illustration of the use of technology against highly technological societies, and the security impacts that need to be addressed in decision-making about the...

Transformation is all the rage these days, especially in my former department, the Department of Defense. At DoD the term connotes the incorporation of radically different methods, systems and concepts for conducting military operations. Transformation in the context of...

War is both an arbiter of institutions and the strongest catalyst of change. We stand more than three years into today’s conflict, and several national security institutions have been found wanting and in need of adaptation. The National Guard...

Sixty years ago—February 23, 1945—a Marine patrol from Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marine Regiment reached the summit of Mount Suribachi, the highest point on the volcanic island of Iwo Jima. It was the fifth day of the savage...

The Abrams Doctrine is widely interpreted as an expression of General Creighton Abrams’ determination to maintain a clear linkage between the employment of the Army and the engagement of public support for military operations. Abrams, according to the doctrine,...

The Foreign Policy Research Institute convened a conference on the future of the reserves and National Guard on 6 December 2004 at the Union League of Philadelphia. A very distinguished group drawn from the current and retired ranks of...

Speaking in Canada on December 1, 2004, President Bush detailed his foreign policy objectives for his next term.  First, he would build and rebuild international coalitions; second, he would pursue vigorously the war on terrorism; third, he would enhance...