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Parameters Spring 2007 Ryan C. Hendrickson |
The Miscalculation of NATO's Death NATO's history, its ability to overcome crises, an analysis of NATO expansion, its institutional flexibility, and evidence of renewed interest in the alliance by many of the world's great powers. |
Parameters Winter 2003/2004 Steven E. Meyer |
Carcass of Dead Policies: The Irrelevance of NATO During the Cold War, NATO provided the proper linchpin of American--and West European--security policy, and served as a useful, even fundamental deterrent to Soviet military might and expansionism. However, NATO's time has come and gone, and today there is no legitimate reason for it to exist. |
National Defense December 2004 Robert H. Williams |
NATO Struggling to Define Its Role in War on Terrorism Within the treaty organization, they noted, there is considerable disagreement over the definition of terrorism and obvious disapproval of the United States' "SWAT team" approach to combating this threat. |
Parameters Autumn 2008 Michael Lind |
A Concert-Balance Strategy for a Multipolar World The United States is a superpower in search of a strategy. The neoconservative vision of unilateral US global hegemony lacks public support, but its critics have failed to propose a credible alternative capable of guiding US national security. |
Reason February 2003 Steve Chapman |
Learning to Love the Bomb Is nuclear proliferation inherently dangerous? In The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed, Columbia University political scientist Kenneth Waltz makes an exhaustive case that "the gradual spread of nuclear weapons is more to be welcomed than feared." |
National Defense September 2015 Jon Harper |
NATO Funding Shortfalls Likely to Continue The latest Russian military intervention in Ukraine is forcing NATO to refocus its attention on its eastern flank. But concerns about a resurgent Russia will not prompt a large boost in alliance procurement. |
Parameters Spring 2004 Peter B. Zwack |
A NATO-Russia Contingency Command The time may be opportune to consider establishing a tangible, combined NATO and Russian military entity to jointly face the challenges of the post-9/11 world. |
Parameters Summer 2007 Gary L. Guertner |
European Views of Preemption in US National Security Strategy The transatlantic divide over preemption. |
National Defense January 2006 Harold Kennedy |
Europe-Based NATO Reaches Deep into Asia, Africa U.S. and allied military forces in Europe -- grappling with a lengthy, global war on terrorism -- are expanding their reach far beyond their traditional perimeters, deep into Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa. |
Parameters Winter 2004/2005 Doron Almog |
Cumulative Deterrence and the War on Terrorism A cumulative deterrence strategy designed for the war on terrorism would build on victories achieved over the short, medium, and long terms that gradually wear down the enemy. |
Parameters Summer 2004 |
Editor's Shelf Authors examine the relationship between the military and the society it serves. |
Parameters Summer 2005 R. D. Hooker |
Beyond Vom Kriege: The Character and Conduct of Modern War While the methods used to wage war are constantly evolving, the nature and character of war remain deeply and unchangeably rooted in the nature of man. |
Parameters Autumn 2006 Liotta & Owen |
Sense and Symbolism: Europe Takes On Human Security A European culture with dubious historical reputation for cosmopolitanism is being thrust upon the global stage at the very moment when its geopolitical concepts are poised on the precipice of desuetude. |
Parameters Spring 2007 |
From the Editor While we are mentally and emotionally captured by the political side-bar related to the President's announced "surge" strategy for Iraq and Afghanistan we have forgotten the reality of the Long War. |
AskMen.com Ross Bonander |
5 Things You Didn't Know: The Cold War To bring you up to speed, we present five things you didn't know about the only war that categorically could have ended all wars through total and complete annihilation -- the Cold War. |
Parameters Winter 2003/2004 |
Book Reviews Reconstructing Eden: A Comprehensive Plan for the Post-War Political and Economic Development of Iraq... The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad... Defense's Nuclear Agency, 1947-1997... Diem's Final Failure: Prelude to America's War in Vietnam... etc. |
Wired August 23, 2007 Ralph Peters |
Washington Ignores Cyberattack Threats, Putting Us All at Peril 21st-century-warfare will be to deny entire states the ability to process, protect, and communicate information. The Pentagon doesn't seem to fully grasp the dangerous potential of this new domain of warfare. |
National Defense August 2004 Roxana Tiron |
European Defense Agency Raising Hackles in U.S. The creation of the European Defense Agency is sending ripples across the Atlantic and raising questions about Europe diverting resources away from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. |
Salon.com September 10, 2002 Bill Clinton |
The path to peace The only way to beat terrorism is for the U.S. to unite the world, not divide it. |
Parameters Autumn 2008 Travis Sharp |
Tying US Defense Spending to GDP: Bad Logic, Bad Policy Defense spending should be determined according to threat-based analysis and not fixed at 4 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP). |
Reason November 2001 Ted Galen Carpenter |
Woodrow Wilson, R.I.P. The folly of humanitarian military intervention... |
National Defense November 2011 Ian Brzezinski |
Lesson From Libya: NATO Alliance Remains Relevant NATO's six-month campaign against Moammar Gadhafi yielded a much-needed success for an alliance fatigued, if not disillusioned, by the war in Afghanistan and financially drained by the debt crisis. |
Parameters Autumn 2006 Stephen J. Coonen |
The Widening Military Capabilities Gap between the United States and Europe: Does it Matter? Military and political experts on both sides of the Atlantic assert that the widening military capabilities gap between the United States and Europe creates a more challenging environment for transatlantic cooperation. |
National Defense July 2014 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
What a Difference World Events Make The latest Quadrennial Defense Review was shaped by a rebalance to the Asia-Pacific region, but urgent events elsewhere may nullify those assumptions. |
Salon.com October 3, 2002 Bill Clinton |
What should the world do about Saddam? The author electrifies a British Labor Party conference with a more sweeping vision for global peace and progress than the current president has been able to muster. |
Salon.com May 16, 2001 Fiona Morgan |
"A dangerous step backwards" Why has President Bush cut funding to combat nuclear proliferation in Russia, and will Congress be able to bring it back? |
Salon.com December 11, 2002 |
Carter warns of "uncontrollable violence" In his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, former President Jimmy Carter blasts the idea of a preemptive war with Iraq. |
Salon.com May 30, 2002 Suzy Hansen |
Taming the bear In a new book, former deputy secretary of state Strobe Talbott says Clinton deserves much credit for Russia's warming to the West -- and recalls a drunken Yeltsin calling for pizza in his underpants... |
Salon.com April 12, 2001 Suzy Hansen |
The invention of peace A leading military scholar talks about what caused the world wars, why Kissinger was a true peacemaker and whether peace is incompatible with human nature... |
Wired Nicholas Thompson |
Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine The technical name was Perimeter, but some called it Mertvaya Ruka, or Dead Hand. It was built 25 years ago and remained a closely guarded secret. |
Salon.com March 13, 2002 Robert Scheer |
When in doubt, nuke 'em The Pentagon's secret plan to fight terror with nuclear weapons shows just how dangerous this administration is... |
National Defense June 2006 Harold Kennedy |
U.S. Steps Up Efforts to Keep WMD Out of Enemy Hands Amid concerns about terrorist attacks against the U.S. and its allies, the U.S. government is increasing its efforts to keep enemies from acquiring and using weapons of mass destruction. Some of these efforts, however, are raising hackles even at home. |
Parameters Spring 2005 |
Book Reviews Abandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War....The Moral Warrior: Ethics and Service in the U.S.... etc. |
National Defense August 2005 Harold Kennedy |
State Department Gets Major Role In Peacekeeping The White House has assigned the role of coordinating civilian and coalition efforts, or "stability operations," after a war to the State Department, which has created an office with an "ambassadorial-level coordinator." |
Scientific American March 2007 Jeffrey D. Sachs |
Threats of War, Chances for Peace Preventing the spread of war will depend on strategies that recognize the shared interests of adversaries. |
Finance & Development December 1, 2002 Gupta et al. |
The Elusive Peace Dividend How armed conflict and terrorism undermine economic performance |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2005 John Keller |
Balancing national security and freedom of commerce Should U.S. technology developers sell their products to whomever they want, or should the government step in and strengthen technology export controls in what some consider a futile effort to keep important technology away from terrorists? |
Reason December 2001 Nick Gillespie |
The New Cold War More and more parallels emerge between the war on terrorism and the Cold War... |
National Defense July 2008 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Difficult Choices Lie Ahead for The Nation's Military Services Much discussion -- even hand wringing -- is taking place among the military, Congress and defense industry about where finite resources need to be placed. |
Inc. April 2007 Ian Bremmer |
How to Calculate Political Risk Small and midsize companies hesitate to venture overseas because so much is unfamiliar: the language, the regulatory environment, the tax system, the culture. But another, greater concern should be that so much is unstable. |
Parameters Spring 2006 |
Editor's Shelf Book Reviews: An Army at War: Change in the Midst of Conflict edited by John J. McGrath... Historical Perspectives of the Operational Art, edited by Michael D. Krause and R. Cody Phillips... etc. |