War Room welcomes Dr. Rob Farley, author of Grounded: The Case for Abolishing the United States Air...
National Security Policy and Strategy
This tag relates to all articles, podcast episodes, and features related to topics taught in the National Security Policy and Strategy course of the U.S. Army War College resident program. It includes matters of the strategic environment that can influence policy discourse, the policy and strategic development processes themselves, and the content of policy and strategy documents above the joint force level. Elements of national power and interactions at the interagency, intergovernmental, and multinational levels are generally included.
President Putin is employing a strategy of exhaustion to undermine the will and resources of the United...
The tenor of President Trump’s trade policy harkens back to mercantilism. While mercantilism has reasonable short-term economic...
War Room welcomes special guest Martin Lacourt, the senior armed forces delegate to the International Committee for...
If European Union powers ditch the alliance in favor of mounting an EU defense force to supersede NATO, U.S. outlays...
To its critics, the 3Ds [of diplomacy, development, and defense] provide an illusion of depth and vitality...
Combating communism required that the United States apply a comprehensive and sustainable approach . … The character...
While there are no easy choices for what to do about North Korea, a preventive attack is...
The U.S. now finds itself in a position of accepting the North Korean nuclear threat or doing...
Chinese development of a homegrown aircraft carrier fleet points to the country’s organic ability to sustain itself,...
The U.S. lacks both the physical and intellectual means to build institutional capacity. Such neglect is a...
The question is no longer whether [the effects of sea level rise] will manifest, but rather how...
Rules are wonderful. … Yet rules have limitations, too, and we should be careful about specifying and...
Vladimir Putin is seizing the initiative to reassert Moscow’s influence in Europe and Asia in an increasingly...
In managing biotechnology, it is tempting to respond to its dangers by simply banning all research and...
The dissolution of the Soviet Union did not mean the end of active measures. Allegations of Russian...
Don Snider reflects on his experiences in the drafting of the 1988 National Security Strategy (NSS) and...
Criminal groups turn to warlike tactics to keep themselves in business and to expand their power. Low-intensity...
The current U.S. strategy … offers no long-term, viable alternative to ISIL or its potential successors. The...
The failure to address water problems through diplomacy will lead to new and growing security risks, including...