Monthly Archives:: July 2005

US Navy – From Here to There

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Naval War College Review – Today’s decisions about strategy and force planning fundamentally influence future strategy and force posture. A proposed “Strategy and Force Planning Framework” may help planners and strategists ask the right questions, appreciate complex dynamics, and address in a comprehensive way the important factors present in strategic decision making. more…

Geopolitics – Regime Change and Its Limits

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Foreign Affairs – So far, the Bush administration has shown it would like to resolve its problems with North Korea and Iran the same way it did with Iraq: through regime change. It is easy to see why. But the strategy is unlikely to work, at least not quickly enough. A much broader approach — [...]

Ground Warfare – Private Warriors

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Frontline – Outsourcing, military style???Over 120,000 private contractors are preparing the food, refueling the planes, and protecting the pipelines and generals in Iraq. But what are the dangers in bringing in the private sector to prosecute the war? Read the transcript of the show here.more…

Indian Navy – Navy sails catch winds of diplomacy

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The Telegraph – The Indian Navy will deploy its aircraft carrier overseas for a first series of exercises in Southeast Asia this month and will follow it up with joint exercises on Indiaís eastern and western seaboards with the US, French and Russian navies???The navy is emerging as New Delhi’s service of choice to implement [...]

Military Space – Space-Based Weapons

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Naval War College Review – Basing weapons in space might in the short term increase U.S. military capabilities, but their broader, long-term effect would be negative-especially because of likely foreign responses, inherent vulnerabilities, and crisis destabilization. A decision not to deploy weapons in space, and a treaty discouraging other nations from deploying them, would be [...]