Recent Publications

Jihadi Groups, Nuclear Pakistan, and the New Great Game
August 1, 2001 — Author: Dr M Ehsan Ahrari For the United States and other nations concerned with security in South and Central Asia, one of the most ominous trends has been the growing influence of Jihadist groups in Pakistan which feel obligated to wage holy war against everything that they perceive as non-Islamic. Their objective would be a Pakistani government... MORE

The Drug Scourge as a Hemispheric Problem
August 1, 2001 — Author: Gen Barry R McCaffrey Former Drug Czar General Barry McCaffrey, USA (Retired) argues that Colombia s 40 million citizens must not be deserted by their neighbors. Leaving the Colombians to deal in isolation with a pervasive drug problem will deeply affect all 800 million of us in the Western Hemisphere through addiction, violence, and... MORE

W(h)ither Corps?
August 1, 2001 — Author: Dr D Robert Worley Army transformation has many dimensions with change in technology, operational methods, and organizations. So far, the focus of organizational transformation has been on the redesign of tactical units such as the interim brigade combat teams. But corps--the Army's operational level organizations--must also be transformed... MORE

Educating International Security Practitioners: Preparing to Face the Demands of the 21st Century International Security Environment
July 1, 2001 — Authors: Dr Linda P Brady, Dr Robert H Dorff, BG Daniel J Kaufman, Dr James M Smith The authors examine the challenges of the 21st century international security environment to which future strategic leaders and policy practitioners will need to respond. More specifically, they offer the reader insights into security studies and leadership... MORE

Army Transformation: A View from the U.S. Army War College
July 1, 2001 — Author: Dr Williamson Murray The U.S. Army is now in the process of transforming itself to meet security interests and the need for land power that span the globe, now and in the future. The following essays are representative of current thinking at the U.S. Army War College by students considering the nature and direction of this transformation... MORE

The Regional Security Crisis in the Andes: Patterns of State Response
June 1, 2001 — Author: Dr Judith A Gentleman The instability, corruption, displacement of people, and violence generated by Colombia's unholy trinity of narcotics traffickers, insurgents, and paramilitaries is spilling over into virtually all of northern South America and Panama. Thus, the stability and political sovereignty of the region are being compromised... MORE

Plan Colombia: Some Differing Perspectives
June 1, 2001 — Authors: Dr Ricardo Arias Calderon, Dr Gabriel Marcella, Mr Chris Marquis, GEN (Colombia) Alvaro Valencia Tovar, GEN Charles E Wilhelm This monograph, with an introduction by Dr. Gabriel Marcella, includes four short, but interesting and important papers presented at a conference on Plan Colombia, sponsored by the Strategic Studies Institute of the... MORE

U.S. Security Policy in the Western Hemisphere: Why Colombia, Why Now, and What Is To Be Done?
June 1, 2001 — Author: Dr Max G Manwaring This is one in the Special Series of monographs stemming from the February 2001 conference on Plan Colombia cosponsored by the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College and The Dante B. Fascell North-South Center of the University of Miami. In substantive U.S. national security terms, the author addresses... MORE

Future Warfare Anthology, Revised Edition
June 1, 2001 — Author: Maj Gen Robert H Scales This Revised Anthology is about the future of military operations in the opening decades of the 21st century. Its purpose is not to predict the future, but to speculate on the conduct of military operations as an instrument of national policy in a world absent massive thermonuclear and conventional superpower... MORE

The Search for Accountability and Transparency in PLAN COLOMBIA: Reforming Judicial Institutions–Again
May 1, 2001 — Author: Dr Luz E Nagle The author argues that confidence in an efficient, courageous and transparent judiciary goes to the very heart of the governability of Colombia, and that Plan Colombia does not address the root causes of Colombia's problems. These are weak government, inequality, absence of citizen participation, corruption and an ineffective... MORE

European Perceptions of Plan Colombia: A Virtual Contribution to a Virtual War and Peace Plan?
May 1, 2001 — Author: Dr Joaquin Roy Professor Joaquin Roy, a Spaniard with valuable sources throughout Europe, notes that Europeans apparently do not approve of the seeming U.S. emphasis on providing military equipment and training to Colombia for a counternarcotics effort in what they see as a larger strategic political conflict. At the same time, he reports... MORE

U.S. Support of PLAN COLOMBIA: Rethinking the Ends and Means
May 1, 2001 — Author: Dr Stephen E Flynn The author argues that the U.S. emphasis on drug control in its support of Plan Colombia is misguided and akin to prescribing an antibiotic regime to combat a disease not caused by bacteria or similar micro-organisms. The illegal drug industry in Colombia is not the cause of that country s fragile socio-political system,... MORE