A new environment, a new paradigm faces United States policy and decision makers. The bipolar world of superpower control and confrontation has been replaced with an unipolar world lead by the United States. A rapid evolution is occurring. A...
This is a presentation of the salient factors that determine the position of neutral states and their subjects during war as authorized by international law. The author focuses on the rights and duties of neutrals, maritime war and neutral commerce...
This paper on neutral rights on the high seas and the origins of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War grew out of a much larger and continuing study of the Royal Navy during the American Revolutionary War. The rights and duties of both neutrals and...
This pamphlet is intended to serve as a supplement to FM 27-10, "The Law of Land Warfare", 18 July 1956. Both Geneva and Hague conventions are described as well as additional agreements.
Throughout history seagoing nations have nurtured their navies to protect their ocean lifelines and influence regional and world events. Blockades are one way in which a naval power has historically influenced these events. In time of war and...
Numerous UN military interventions have taken place in the post-Cold War era. Some stand out as failure: stability efforts did not succeed and UN forces were often incapable of protecting the people. Rwanda, Somalia and Bosnia come to mind. These...
The purpose of this research was to identify how important direct service benefits are to mid-career U.S. Army officer decisions to continue serving in the Army on active duty. The problem this research effort focused on was understanding how...
The situation in Europe and the tendencies affecting its future security environment challenge current Swedish policy of neutrality and nonalignment. This study investigates the official policy, the situation in Europe, and the Baltic Region to...
Basic field manual, volume VII, military law, was published in three parts, as follows: part one- manual for courts-martial; part two- rules of land warfare; and part three- military aid to civil authorities. This document, part two, details basic...
This military manual covers the rules or laws of war by which the conduct of war is regulated by civilized nations. Included is armed forces qualifications, conduct of hostilities, prisoners, casualties, espionage, capitulation, military...
This study examines the dilemma of a traditional neutral country between independence and interdependence. The Swiss perception of seeing themselves as a "special case" is discussed in terms of Swiss federalism, land of minorities and sense for...
A complete new set of challenges for Swedish security policy has been created by the fall of the Berlin Wall, the crisis in the former Yugoslavia, and Swedish membership in the European Union (EU), as well as in a number of other security policy...
This paper examines the blockade, as both a current concept and a tool suitable to Information Age Warfare. It addresses doctrine's twin demands for precise terminology, to aid shared understanding, and intellectual flexibility, required to win...
The purpose of this manual is to provide a comprehensive picture of all Strategic Services activities in their relation to actual or planned military operations, and a guide for the planning and conduct of Strategic Services within theaters and...
As the 1990s begin, the Cold War has ended and the US Army is reevaluating its role in a rapidly changing world. While the threat of global conflict has been reduced, in some ways the world is less stable. Threats to US interests are likely to...
Reviews economic warfare (all aspects of war aimed at the destruction of the economy of the enemy) employed and developed by the United States and Great Britain during World War II and makes recommendations to improve their application in both...
A translation of top-level directives issued by Hitler and by the Armed Forces High Command (OKW) from 1939-1945. Also includes some top-level naval directions (OKM), showing the Navy’s reaction. Some early directives are not included because...
This thesis determined if selected military journals emphasized a traditional style of leadership in contrast to a managerial style of leadership during the period 1970 to 1985. A content analysis of five selected military journals was undertaken...
The 1986 Joint Staff Officer's Guide, AFCS Pub 1, identifies seven military mission options available to national leaders as possible solutions to deal with international problems. Of these seven options, two specifically involve the use of a naval...
In 2006, the New Zealand Government began the first reading to formally rescind the policy within the New Zealand Human Rights “Women in Armed Forces” Amendment Bill (New Zealand Parliament, 2006) exempting females from serving in combat roles...