Review: Enforcing the Peace–Learning from the Imperial Past
4.0 out of 5 stars Worthwhile but Stops Short, January 6, 2005
4.0 out of 5 stars Worthwhile but Stops Short, January 6, 2005
5.0 out of 5 stars Solid Reference Work–Need Same for US, May 15, 2004
Peacekeeping Intelligence Leadership Digest 1.0[i] Robert David Steele Ben de Jong, Wies Platje, and Robert David Steele, PEACEKEEPING INTELLIGENCE: Emerging Concepts for the Future (OSS International Press, 2003), pp. 201-225. Original As Published Executive Summary The Brahimi Report, in combination with documented field experience from numerous UN peacekeeping missions, and the memoirs and published statements …
Muddy Waters, Rusting Buckets: A Skeptical Assessment of U.S Naval Effectiveness in the 21st Century by Robert D Steele Neither the U.S. Navy nor the U.S. Marine Corps are ready for the 21st Century. The current plan for a 320-ship Navy not only leaves America without sustainable power projection, but also makes no provision for …
This was faxed to John Deutch when he was DCI. It probably made it to his desk only to be dismissed as it was not from anyone remotely associated with power or money. This was the beginning of our realization, articulated in 1997 for the US Institute for Peace, that those with power know too …
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Intelligence in the 1990’s: Recasting National Security in a Changing World I am constantly being asked a bottom-line defense number. I don’t know of any logical way to arrive at such a figure without analyzing the threat; without determining what changes in our strategy should be made in light of the changes in the threat; …
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