wyszukanych pozycji: 57
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Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities for United States Pacific Command
ISBN: 9781502972477 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. While scientific debate continues over the degree to which carbon emissions derived from human activity drive climate change, discernable trends toward change in the world's climate are clear. These changes have the potential to accelerate instability, likely providing the tipping point for humanitarian disasters, major population migrations, conflict over scarce resources, and failed states. With its vast ocean expanses, tremendous amount of coastline and increased competition for resources, the United States Pacific Command (USPACOM) Area of Responsibility (AOR) covers a geographic region...
While scientific debate continues over the degree to which carbon emissions derived from human activity drive climate change, discernable trends towar...
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The Strategic Threat of Inevitable Climate Change
ISBN: 9781502972682 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The world's climate is changing. Scientific evidence clearly demonstrates an unprecedented rate of global warming is taking place. This warming is serving as a driving force behind changes to the global climate. Leaders across the globe are confronted with the implications of an uncertain future in which the changing climate threaten significant impacts on nearly every aspect of our lives. The response by the United States and much of the international community to climate change is currently focused on efforts to mitigate the warming of the earth's surface. The situation, however, has...
The world's climate is changing. Scientific evidence clearly demonstrates an unprecedented rate of global warming is taking place. This warming is ser...
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In the Dark: Military Planning for a Catastrophic Critical Infrastructure Event
ISBN: 9781500357764 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 42 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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A Proposed United States Grand Strategy for 2015-2030
ISBN: 9781502972675 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. How should the United States achieve its national security objectives, given its current and projected economic condition, for the period 2015 to 2030? This paper examines the imbalance of stated United States national security objectives (ends) with the current and projected economic resources (means) to accomplish these objectives. A basic premise of this paper is the following: for the United States to preserve its ability to function as a great power within the international system of the 2030-2040 timeframe, this nation must regenerate its economic strength and recapitalize select...
How should the United States achieve its national security objectives, given its current and projected economic condition, for the period 2015 to 2030...
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Cybersecurity: The Nation's Greatest Threat To Critical Infrastructure
ISBN: 9781502972620 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Over the past decade, the cyber threat to critical infrastructure has grown to potentially catastrophic dimensions. Critical Infrastructure protection has become a matter of national security, public safety, and economic stability. It is imperative the U.S. Government (USG) examine current responsibilities, develop a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy, cybersecurity regulations, impose standards, and enforce the strongest security measures possible to protect the Nation from cyber attacks to critical infrastructure. This paper provides a background of what constitutes national critical...
Over the past decade, the cyber threat to critical infrastructure has grown to potentially catastrophic dimensions. Critical Infrastructure protection...
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Empire Maintenance in the Information Age: Influence of Mediaverse on Strategy
ISBN: 9781503208599 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The proliferation of mobile Internet technology grants the average global citizen immediate access to information and the ability to posit opinions, i.e. influence, at near-real-time speed. The amalgam of 24/7 news networks, mass media, the Internet, and social media (the mediaverse), coupled with mobile technology, influences strategy in three ways. First, it is a national security challenge and opportunity. Second, it influences the character of war. Third, it is forcing an evolution of the strategic environment. The successful strategic leader must be not just aware but au courant on the...
The proliferation of mobile Internet technology grants the average global citizen immediate access to information and the ability to posit opinions, i...
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Philippine Counterinsurgency Success: Implications for the Human Domain of Warfare
ISBN: 9781503003170 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In mid-2009 the Armed Forces of the Philippines dramatically changed their strategic approach to countering multiple long-standing insurgencies within the Philippine archipelago. The foundation of that approach was nationally articulated in the Internal Peace and Security Plan "Bayanihan," clearly outlining the government's overall framework for peace, as well as the two key tenets that reflected the change in policy. Although this change represented a paradigm shift and was focused, mostly for public consumption, on winning the peace, the tenets of protecting the population and whole of...
In mid-2009 the Armed Forces of the Philippines dramatically changed their strategic approach to countering multiple long-standing insurgencies within...
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Reforming the Police in Post-Soviet States: Georgia and Kyrgyztan
ISBN: 9781502474711 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Pervasive Agility and Agile Fires in Support of Decisive Action
ISBN: 9781503209213 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. With the end of our commitment in Iraq and as we begin the drawdown of forces in Afghanistan, the Nation, the Department of Defense, and the Army are beginning a strategic transition from fighting and winning current wars to preparing for the challenges beyond them. Simultaneously, the US Government faces a fiscal and budgetary crisis that will shape the strategic landscape and inform our preparations for future conflicts. Addressing the uncertainty of the current security challenges facing the nation, our nation's senior leaders have specified in official policy and planning documents that...
With the end of our commitment in Iraq and as we begin the drawdown of forces in Afghanistan, the Nation, the Department of Defense, and the Army are ...
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Al-Shabaab: The Threat to Kenya and the Horn of Africa
ISBN: 9781503101371 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Republic of Somalia gained independence on 1st July 1960 and nine years later General Mohamed Said Barre took power through a coup. In 1991 anarchy ensued after his expulsion and since then Somalia has been in a protracted conflict for over twenty four years with a lack of proper institutions for governance and the political capacity to function as a state. Fighting among leaders of rival factions and the lack of a stable functional government enables the Islamist militia, al Shabaab, whose objective is to establish a Somali caliphate in the entire nation, to unleash terror on Somalis and...
The Republic of Somalia gained independence on 1st July 1960 and nine years later General Mohamed Said Barre took power through a coup. In 1991 anarch...
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History of Space Policy
ISBN: 9781499542936 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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The Energy Puzzle Between the United States and China
ISBN: 9781502809650 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 30 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. With the expanding Chinese economy and the increasing demand for energy, China's pursuit of natural resources, (oil, natural gas, coal or renewable energy sources) is reshaping the world's energy security. The United States is currently the biggest consumer of natural resources with China in at a close second. China's economic rise coincides with the decrease in the world's energy supply. This confluence of economic prosperity and energy demand concerns the U.S. China and the U.S. are the world's superpowers and will continue to protect their respective natural resource territories and...
With the expanding Chinese economy and the increasing demand for energy, China's pursuit of natural resources, (oil, natural gas, coal or renewable en...
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Countering Irregular Activity in Civil War Arkansas
ISBN: 9781505337372 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Civil War Arkansas endured many forms of irregular or guerilla warfare including activity that approached insurgency. It was a complex arena that resembles the present day and it illustrates much of contemporary counterinsurgency doctrine. Arkansas was a Southern state with a significant Unionist population and this divide fueled and shaped much of the conflict. Arkansas was unique in that the Confederate commander seeking to make up for conventional weakness, initiated guerilla warfare directed at Union forces. In response, Union commanders who were merely to protect lines of communication...
Civil War Arkansas endured many forms of irregular or guerilla warfare including activity that approached insurgency. It was a complex arena that rese...
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Golden Arrows: Leveraging Strategic Leadership Potential of Special Operation Leaders
ISBN: 9781508924289 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 30 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Intent of Research: This paper examines current and future requirements for strategic leadership of the United States Army and identifies Special Operations Forces senior leaders as potential strategic leaders of the Army based upon the alignment their professional attributes and competencies with the future operating environment and the probability of continued irregular and hybrid conflict. First this paper assesses the concept of strategic leadership within the framework of recent historical and future global conditions. Next, an analysis of U.S. Army strategic leaders identifies...
Intent of Research: This paper examines current and future requirements for strategic leadership of the United States Army and identifies Special Oper...
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For-Profit Colleges and the GI Bill: A Worthwhile Investment?
ISBN: 9781500453534 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The proliferation of for-profit colleges and questions about their recruiting tactics and program quality has caused concern among educators and legislators for quite some time. This issue has also been a concern within military and veteran communities because of the number of servicemembers and veterans who choose to use their tuition assistance or GI Bill benefits at for-profit colleges. The enactment of the Post 9/11 GI Bill has made this a more urgent problem for two reasons. First, a larger number of servicemembers and veterans are using these benefits at for-profit colleges. Second, as...
The proliferation of for-profit colleges and questions about their recruiting tactics and program quality has caused concern among educators and legis...
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Leader Development, Learning Agility, and the Army Profession
ISBN: 9781500457938 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The current Army Profession campaign makes the case for a re-evaluation and assessment of the Army as a profession and the attributes of the Army Professional. Leadership entails the repetitive exercise of discretionary judgments, all highly moral in nature, and represents the core function of the Army Professional's military art. Leader development is an investment required to maintain the Army as a profession. The profession is maintained by leaders who place a high priority on leader development and invest themselves and the resources of the profession to develop professionals and future...
The current Army Profession campaign makes the case for a re-evaluation and assessment of the Army as a profession and the attributes of the Army Prof...
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Self-Inflicted Wounds: Russia's Failed Chechen and North Caucasus Policy
ISBN: 9781503186231 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Chechnya declared its independence during the chaos of the dissolution of the USSR and the emergence of Russia in 1991. Chechen independence threatened Russia's territorial integrity however, resulting in two wars between Russia and Chechen rebels that lay waste to Chechnya and killed an estimated 100,000 people. Russia's harsh methods during both wars resulted in reprisal attacks on Russian targets, instability in Chechnya, and a widening insurgency in the North Caucasus. The Kremlin's response to each successive attack has been the use of force and population control measures against its...
Chechnya declared its independence during the chaos of the dissolution of the USSR and the emergence of Russia in 1991. Chechen independence threatene...
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Responding to Strategic and Organizational Uncertainty: Developing Army Leaders "after Iraq and Afghanistan"
ISBN: 9781503209039 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This analysis suggests the current Army strategic leadership competencies are necessary but insufficient. Today's Army leaders constitute the most "combat-experienced force" fielded in recent memory; however, much of this experience reflects a decade of experience in counterinsurgency that may only be partially relevant for other uncertain strategic challenges. In addition, a combination of pressing and complex factors of organizational uncertainty complicates today's efforts in developing leaders, and more importantly, limits leaders from achieving their strategic potential. This paper...
This analysis suggests the current Army strategic leadership competencies are necessary but insufficient. Today's Army leaders constitute the most "co...
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The Growing Nexus: Energy, Environmental Causes and Sovereignty
ISBN: 9781503099388 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Under the auspices of globally good intentions, is the growing environmental green movement and those who ascribe to the Global Warming Theory actually detrimental to America's sovereignty? This monograph will examine the issues, including the recent body of scientists who subscribe to new empirical data that refutes the Global Warming Theory in its entirety. It will also examine some of the major initiatives that the United States Government endorsed for renewable green energy that resulted in failure, bluntly Illustrative of the collective good intentions of environmentalism gone awry. This...
Under the auspices of globally good intentions, is the growing environmental green movement and those who ascribe to the Global Warming Theory actuall...
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Unparalleled Need - Human Intelligence Collectors in the United States Army
ISBN: 9781497506657 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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