Sustainable peace in the Western Balkans still remains to be desired. Ethnic impatience and nationalistic extremism are still strong and capable of ruining the peace achieved. Further engagement of the International Community is critical to...
This thesis explores the Russian Federation‘s resurgence as a center of influence and the implications of this resurgence for United States European Command. This is accomplished by examining three countries within European Command‘s area of...
This thesis addresses the primary research question: Are the Balkans becoming a European sanctuary for radical Islamists. Research is focused on what are the factors that contribute in creation of favorable condition for radical Islamists in the...
A legacy of the Cold War, indeed a legacy of the past century of the tumult that is Northeast Asia, the Korean peninsula remains divided. The Republic of Korea, the South, has prospered into an "Asian Tiger" and stands as one of the economic...
What started in 1995 as a one year commitment of NATO troops to implement the Dayton peace accord in Bosnia and Herzegovina has developed into a still ongoing mission there since 1996, an additional mission in Kosovo since 1999 and several minor...
Through the 1990s the U.S. armed forces engaged in peace operations in the former Yugoslavia. The predominance of the U.S. military and the lack of any true conventional peer opponent indicates the potential for commitment to similar situations in...
Modern military leaders require solid information, with broad background knowledge, to operate in some of the world's most complex cultures. In the Balkan Peninsula, the overlapping demands of religion, ethnic loyalties, and selfish power-politics...
Before World War II, the U.S. had only negligible involvement in Asia. However, the defeat of the Japanese, the need to provide assistance to former European colonies and the perceived need to prevent the spread of Communism, left the U.S. as the...
Many believe that the high operational pace of the military is detrimentally affecting military readiness. This paper will try to explain why this has little if any impact on military readiness.
Smith, Richard T.; King, Donna; De Jesus, Carlos A.; Pilve, Helari; Nelson, Eric B.
While evaluating the impact of long deployments on military readiness we discovered that military readiness is diminished. The impact of the military family structure has been immense. The military family contributes greatly to military readiness....
In the early 1990s, the world has seen unprecedented changes in the global security environment that have drastically altered the balance of power, and the manner in which nations of the world interact. The evolving international security...
The purpose of this monograph is to examine the operational impacts of the Army’s transformation of network enterprise management on the signal community, particularly the impacts upon Division and Corps G6 personnel. The Global Network...
Office of Strategic Services, Research and Analysis Branch
This is a brief account of nationalist and racial groups which developed in Germany after the First World War, the relation of these groups to the development of Nazi ideology and practice, and the methods by which the Nazi Party coordinated and...
This section only contains a broad summation of the various aspects of government and administration. It details the functional pattern of Japanese government, organization, the legal concept of a municipality, the area of municipalities, residents...
Operation 'ECLIPSE' was planning and preparations for operations in Europe in the event of German surrender. The objects of Operation Eclipse are to carry out the sphere of responsibility of the Supreme Commander in Europe. Provisions for this plan...
The question of U.S. intervention in the conflicts surrounding the breakup of the former Yugoslavia from 1991 to 1995 was one of the most contentious foreign policy problems of the time. After the failure of diplomatic initiatives, the question...
This monograph evaluates the security implications for the European continent as NATO enlarges its membership to include former eastern bloc countries. Specifically, it addresses whether NATO enlargement will enhance or jeopardize European...