Ready Fire Aim The Implications Of America S Preventive War Policy
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Ready Fire Aim The Implications Of America S Preventive War Policy
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Ready Fire Aim The Implications Of America S Preventive War Policy written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with categories.
In the aftermath of 9/11, the U.S. developed a National Security Strategy predicated on a policy of preemption, otherwise known as the Bush Doctrine. In 2003, the U.S. tested that doctrine when it invaded Iraq. However, in practice the Iraq invasion represented not preemption but preventive war. This paper analyzes the costs of America's preventive war in Iraq as measured against two entities: the international community and the U.S. populace. This paper concludes that by pursuing preventive war in Iraq, the U.S. has measurably reduced its flexibility in addressing other existing and future security threats. Within the international community the jus ad bellum perceptions of America's actions have resulted in the loss of support and assistance, not only in Iraq, but also the larger global war on terrorism. On the domestic front, and for other than jus ad bellum reasons, the U.S. Administration has lost the support of the populace. As the cry of "no more Iraqs" echoes throughout America, the U.S. Administration now has less flexibility to address other remaining threats. In the end, the costs of preventive war have been too high and the preventive war policy cannot and should not survive.
The Implications Of Preemptive And Preventive War Doctrines A Reconsideration
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Author : Colin S. Gray
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2014-06-22
The Implications Of Preemptive And Preventive War Doctrines A Reconsideration written by Colin S. Gray and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-22 with Education categories.
If RMA (revolution in military affairs) was the acronym and concept of choice in the U.S. defense community in the 1990s, so preemption has threatened to supercede it in the 2000s. The trouble is that officials and many analysts have confused preemption, which is not controversial, with prevention, which is. In this monograph, Dr. Colin S. Gray draws a sharp distinction between preemption and prevention, and explains that the political, military, moral, and strategic arguments have really all been about the latter, not the former. Dr. Gray provides definitions, reviews the history of the preventive war option, and considers the merit, or lack thereof, in the principal charges laid against the concept when it is proclaimed to be policy. Dr. Gray concludes that there is a place for preventive war in U.S. strategy, but that it is an option that should be exercised only very occasionally. However, there are times when only force seems likely to resolve a maturing danger.
Military Strategy A Very Short Introduction
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Author : Antulio J. Echevarria II
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024
Military Strategy A Very Short Introduction written by Antulio J. Echevarria II and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with History categories.
Military Strategy: A Very Short Introduction adapts Clausewitz's framework to highlight the dynamic relationship between the main elements of strategy: purpose, method, and means. Drawing on historical examples, Antulio J. Echevarria discusses the major types of military strategy and how emerging technologies are affecting them. This second edition has been updated to include an expanded chapter on manipulation through cyberwarfare and new further reading.
The Paradox Of Power
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Author : David C. Gompert
language : en
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Release Date : 2020
The Paradox Of Power written by David C. Gompert and has been published by Government Printing Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.
The second half of the 20th century featured a strategic competition between the United States and the Soviet Union. That competition avoided World War III in part because during the 1950s, scholars like Henry Kissinger, Thomas Schelling, Herman Kahn, and Albert Wohlstetter analyzed the fundamental nature of nuclear deterrence. Decades of arms control negotiations reinforced these early notions of stability and created a mutual understanding that allowed U.S.-Soviet competition to proceed without armed conflict. The first half of the 21st century will be dominated by the relationship between the United States and China. That relationship is likely to contain elements of both cooperation and competition. Territorial disputes such as those over Taiwan and the South China Sea will be an important feature of this competition, but both are traditional disputes, and traditional solutions suggest themselves. A more difficult set of issues relates to U.S.-Chinese competition and cooperation in three domains in which real strategic harm can be inflicted in the current era: nuclear, space, and cyber. Just as a clearer understanding of the fundamental principles of nuclear deterrence maintained adequate stability during the Cold War, a clearer understanding of the characteristics of these three domains can provide the underpinnings of strategic stability between the United States and China in the decades ahead. That is what this book is about.
The United States China And Taiwan
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Author : Robert Blackwill
language : en
Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations Press
Release Date : 2021-02-11
The United States China And Taiwan written by Robert Blackwill and has been published by Council on Foreign Relations Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-11 with categories.
Taiwan "is becoming the most dangerous flash point in the world for a possible war that involves the United States, China, and probably other major powers," warn Robert D. Blackwill, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy, and Philip Zelikow, University of Virginia White Burkett Miller professor of history. In a new Council Special Report, The United States, China, and Taiwan: A Strategy to Prevent War, the authors argue that the United States should change and clarify its strategy to prevent war over Taiwan. "The U.S. strategic objective regarding Taiwan should be to preserve its political and economic autonomy, its dynamism as a free society, and U.S.-allied deterrence-without triggering a Chinese attack on Taiwan." "We do not think it is politically or militarily realistic to count on a U.S. military defeat of various kinds of Chinese assaults on Taiwan, uncoordinated with allies. Nor is it realistic to presume that, after such a frustrating clash, the United States would or should simply escalate to some sort of wide-scale war against China with comprehensive blockades or strikes against targets on the Chinese mainland." "If U.S. campaign plans postulate such unrealistic scenarios," the authors add, "they will likely be rejected by an American president and by the U.S. Congress." But, they observe, "the resulting U.S. paralysis would not be the result of presidential weakness or timidity. It might arise because the most powerful country in the world did not have credible options prepared for the most dangerous military crisis looming in front of it." Proposing "a realistic strategic objective for Taiwan, and the associated policy prescriptions, to sustain the political balance that has kept the peace for the last fifty years," the authors urge the Joe Biden administration to affirm that it is not trying to change Taiwan's status; work with its allies, especially Japan, to prepare new plans that could challenge Chinese military moves against Taiwan and help Taiwan defend itself, yet put the burden of widening a war on China; and visibly plan, beforehand, for the disruption and mobilization that could follow a wider war, but without assuming that such a war would or should escalate to the Chinese, Japanese, or American homelands. "The horrendous global consequences of a war between the United States and China, most likely over Taiwan, should preoccupy the Biden team, beginning with the president," the authors conclude.
Preparing For The Psychological Consequences Of Terrorism
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Author : Institute of Medicine
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 2003-08-26
Preparing For The Psychological Consequences Of Terrorism written by Institute of Medicine and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-08-26 with Political Science categories.
The Oklahoma City bombing, intentional crashing of airliners on September 11, 2001, and anthrax attacks in the fall of 2001 have made Americans acutely aware of the impacts of terrorism. These events and continued threats of terrorism have raised questions about the impact on the psychological health of the nation and how well the public health infrastructure is able to meet the psychological needs that will likely result. Preparing for the Psychological Consequences of Terrorism highlights some of the critical issues in responding to the psychological needs that result from terrorism and provides possible options for intervention. The committee offers an example for a public health strategy that may serve as a base from which plans to prevent and respond to the psychological consequences of a variety of terrorism events can be formulated. The report includes recommendations for the training and education of service providers, ensuring appropriate guidelines for the protection of service providers, and developing public health surveillance for preevent, event, and postevent factors related to psychological consequences.
U S Army War College Guide To National Security Policy And Strategy
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Author : J. Boone Bartholomees
language : en
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Release Date : 2001
U S Army War College Guide To National Security Policy And Strategy written by J. Boone Bartholomees and has been published by DIANE Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with categories.
The Medical Implications Of Nuclear War
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Author : Fred Solomon
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 1986-01-15
The Medical Implications Of Nuclear War written by Fred Solomon and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-01-15 with Science categories.
Written by world-renowned scientists, this volume portrays the possible direct and indirect devastation of human health from a nuclear attack. The most comprehensive work yet produced on this subject, The Medical Implications of Nuclear War includes an overview of the potential environmental and physical effects of nuclear bombardment, describes the problems of choosing who among the injured would get the scarce medical care available, addresses the nuclear arms race from a psychosocial perspective, and reviews the medical needs--in contrast to the medical resources likely to be available--after a nuclear attack. "It should serve as the definitive statement on the consequences of nuclear war."--Arms Control Today
Tailored Deterrence
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Author : Barry R. Schneider
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Tailored Deterrence written by Barry R. Schneider and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Arms control categories.
Japan S Decision For War In 1941 Some Enduring Lessons
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Author : Dr. Jeffrey Record
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2015-11-06
Japan S Decision For War In 1941 Some Enduring Lessons written by Dr. Jeffrey Record and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-06 with History categories.
Japan’s decision to attack the United States in 1941 is widely regarded as irrational to the point of suicidal. How could Japan hope to survive a war with, much less defeat, an enemy possessing an invulnerable homeland and an industrial base 10 times that of Japan? The Pacific War was one that Japan was always going to lose, so how does one explain Tokyo’s decision? Did the Japanese recognize the odds against them? Did they have a concept of victory, or at least of avoiding defeat? Or did the Japanese prefer a lost war to an unacceptable peace? Dr. Jeffrey Record takes a fresh look at Japan’s decision for war, and concludes that it was dictated by Japanese pride and the threatened economic destruction of Japan by the United States. He believes that Japanese aggression in East Asia was the root cause of the Pacific War, but argues that the road to war in 1941 was built on American as well as Japanese miscalculations and that both sides suffered from cultural ignorance and racial arrogance. Record finds that the Americans underestimated the role of fear and honor in Japanese calculations and overestimated the effectiveness of economic sanctions as a deterrent to war, whereas the Japanese underestimated the cohesion and resolve of an aroused American society and overestimated their own martial prowess as a means of defeating U.S. material superiority. He believes that the failure of deterrence was mutual, and that the descent of the United States and Japan into war contains lessons of great and continuing relevance to American foreign policy and defense decision-makers.