New York Times – Behind the Phoenix Program – 29 December 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/29/opinion/behind-the-phoenix-program.html South Vietnam’s role in the controversial counterinsurgency effort offers lessons for today’s wars.
New York Times – The Hunt for ISIS Pivots to Remaining Pockets in Syria – 24 December 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/24/world/middleeast/last-phase-islamic-state-iraq-syria.html The last phase of the American campaign against the caliphate is relying heavily on warplanes that are focused on an area half the size of Manhattan.
RAND – Deterring Space War An Exploratory Analysis Incorporating Prospect Theory into a Game Theoretic Model of Space Warfare – 21 December 2017
This dissertation uses a game theoretic model of space war to examine how sentiments in multiple dimensions impact state decisions regarding whether to expand a ground war into the space domain. https://www.rand.org/pubs/rgs_dissertations/RGSD400.html https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/rgs_dissertations/RGSD400/RGSD400/RAND_RGSD400.pdf
This Day In History – Operation Just Cause – 20 December 1989
Govern, Officer Professional Development – Operation Just Cause (Enhanced Graphics) – PDF OPD – justcauseliberygraphics-enhanced v3 And See Yates, The U.S. Military Intervention in Panama https://history.army.mil/html/books/just_cause/CMH_55-1-1_Just_%20Cause_opt.pdf And See Govern, Sorting the Wolves From The Sheep http://www.wood.army.mil/engrmag/pdfs/Oct%2004%20pdfs/Govern.pdf
National Security Strategy – 18 December 2017
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/NSS-Final-12-18-2017-0905.pdf
New York Times – A Tillerson Slip Offers a Peek Into Secret Planning on North Korea -17 December 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/17/us/politics/tillerson-north-korea-china.html This is a breathtaking public acknowledgement by a senior US Government official, notwithstanding OCT 2017 reportage that: North Korean hackers were reportedly able to obtain a copy of the U.S. military’s OPLAN 5015. This is a detailed outline for what has been described as a “decapitation strike,” that would,…
9-10 November 2017 – UPenn CERL Navigating Law and Ethics at the Crossroads of Journalism and National Security
Navigating Law and Ethics at the Crossroads of Journalism and National Security Co-hosted by CERL and the Annenberg School for Communication, the roundtable conference will convene academics, analysts, and practitioners from fields as diverse as law, journalism, media, public policy, philosophy, national security, and others to explore some of…
2017-18 Military Legitimacy Award Competition Announcement
The Barnes-Wall Foundation of South Carolina is again soliciting nominations for the following awards to deserving scholars: The foundation will consider providing a Military Legitimacy Review Award ($500.00) to the best paper on a topic related to military legitimacy, as well as the additional category of a Military Scholarship Award…
New York Times – America’s Forever Wars – 23 October 2017
The United States has been at war continuously since the attacks of 9/11 and now has just over 240,000 active-duty and reserve troops in at least 172 countries and territories. While the number of men and women deployed overseas has shrunk considerably over the past 60 years, the military’s reach…
NBC News – North Korean Foreign Minister: Trump Threat Was Declaration of War – 25 SEP 17
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/North-Korea-Foreign-Minister-Trump-Threat-Was-Declaration-of-War-447686013.html