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is determined and the road that leads to either survival or ruin,
and must be examined with greatest care. '
Sun
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National Security Strategy of the United States
of America 2006, March 2006
National Defense Strategy of the United States of America, [1.7 MB] March 2005
Towards An
American Way of War, Antulio
J. Echevarria II, SSI, March 2004
FM
7-100 Opposing Force Doctrinal Framework and Strategy,
[2 MB] 01
May 2003
The
National Security Strategy of the United States
of America 2002, 'President
Bush has crafted a new national security strategy
that
essentially abandons concepts of deterrence -- which
dominated defense
policies during the Cold War years -- for a forward-reaching,
pre-emptive strategy against hostile states and terrorist
groups,
while also expanding development assistance and free
trade, promoting
democracy, fighting disease, and transforming the
U.S. military.'
Overview
of the US National Security Structure, Joint
Chiefs of Staff
Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986
Annual
Defense Report
The
Annual Report to the President and the Congress,
commonly referred to as the Annual Defense
Report, details how the Department of Defense
built its capabilities and is working to maintain
them in the future. In addition to fulfilling
a statutory requirement, specifically U.S.C.
Title 10, the Secretary of Defense's Annual
Defense Report is widely distributed and serves
as a basic reference document for those interested
in national defense issues and programs. So
that it may be presented in an open forum,
this report is unclassified.
2003 Report Annual
Report to the President and the Congress, Secretary
of Defense Donald
H. Rumsfeld
2002
Report Annual
Report to the President and the Congress, Secretary
of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld
2001
Report Annual
Report to the President and the Congress, Secretary
of Defense William
S. Cohen
Strategy Keytexts
Shock
and Awe: Achieving Rapid Dominance written
by Harlan
K. Ullman and James P. Wade with:
L.A. "Bud" Edney,
Fred M. Franks, Charles A. Horner,
Jonathan T. Howe, and Keith Brendley,
NDU Press
Book, December
1996
The
Art of War - Sun Tzu
On War -
Clausewitz
The
Prince
by Nicolo Machiavelli Written c. 1505

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Chinese
Military Power 2004,DOD, May 2004
Fiscal
Year 2005 National Defense Authorization Budget Request
from the Department of Defense Hearing,
House Armed Services Committee, February 2004
.The
Air & Space
Power Course is a self-paced,
interactive course. The course allows students to develop
a broad comprehension of air and space power principles,
concepts, and applications. While the course was originally
designed to prepare Air Force officers in joint duty
assignments to better articulate and advocate air and
space power principles and beliefs, the course material
is relevant to airmen of all ranks and assignments.
Clausewitz’s
Center of Gravity, It’s Not What We Thought by
Lieutenant Colonel Antulio J. Echevarria II, U.S.
Army, Naval War College Review 2003 Winter
Clausewitz's
Center of Gravity: Changing our Warfighting Doctrine
-- again! by Antulio J. Echevarria II, September
2002
Center
of Gravity – Still Relevant After
All These Years by LTC Christopher W. Fowler, Strategy Research
Project, April 2002
Effects-Based
Operations: Theory, Application and the Role of Airpower
by Lieutenant Colonel Brett T. Williams, Strategy
Research Project, April 2002
Effects-based
operations: A new Operational Model? by
Allen W. Batschelet, Strategy Research Project, April
2002
On
Politics and Airpower by LtCol Bradley J Smith,
USAF, Strategy Research Project, April 2002
Nuclear
Deterrence in the Third Millennium by Lieutenant
Colonel Charles W. Durr Jr., Strategy Research Project,
April 2002
Comparing
Strategies of the 2d Punic War: Rome’s
Strategic Victory Over the Tactical/Operational
Genius, Hannibal
Barca by James Parker, Strategy Research Project,
April 2001
Peacekeeping and the Just War Tradition by Major
Tony Pfaff, Strategic Studies Institute United States
Army War College, September 2000
Perspectives
- Conflict Between And Within States - Report #2000/06
published
in August 2000 (© Canadian Security
Intelligence Service)
China
in the Ascendancy: A Growing Threat to U.S. Security?
[714K] in National Security Report Vol. 4, Issue,
2 May 2000 by the US House Armed Services Committee
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What
the Chinese Learned from Sun-tzu by Colleen K.
Holmes, Strategy Research Project, April 2000
Kosovo
After-Action Review - Joint Statement of William
Cohen, Secretary of Defense and General Henry H. Shelton,
Chairman of the JCS to the Senate Armed Service Committee,
October 14, 1999
A Quick Look at Wargames
by Anton Coetzee

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