Is the targeted killing of United States citizens legal? There are two competing models which address the legality of targeted killings: the law-enforcement model and the armed-conflict model. This paper examines arguments for and against each...
Security Challenges and the Nature of Future War. The changing security environment. Graham H. Turbiville Jr.; Colonel William W. Mendel, US Army, Retired; and Jacob W. Kipp Operation Rio: taking back the...
Security force assistance operations: defining the advise and assist brigade. COL Philip Battaglia, U.S. Army, and LT COL Curtis Taylor, U.S. Army; In security force assistance operations, the only real way to measure success is by the quality of...
Today's Army and American Soldier are without a doubt the greatest in the world. However, the continuing War on Terrorism is placing a huge strain on our Forces. I feel one of the biggest dilemmas facing the United States Army today is the...
This paper addresses the Israeli view of the threat posed by various armed factions in southern Lebanon over an 18-year period. This was a period during which Israeli used air strikes, ground invasions, and border operations to contain or defeat...
This is a CSI Reprint of Joint Publications Research Service, Southeast Asia Report No. 1247, Foreign Broadcast Information Service. JPRS publications contain information primarily from foreign newspapers, periodicals and books, but also from news...
These are a collection of prisoner of war documents with languages and translations in English, German, Italian, French, and Japanese. Topics include the convention between the U.S.A. and other powers- amelioration of the condition of the wounded...
In December 2010, spontaneous protests began in Tunisia following the self-immolation of a Tunisian citizen, who was upset after having his vegetable cart seized by Tunisian police. Wide spread demonstrations followed in the capital city of Tunis....
Traditional models representing how messages are communicated through traditional media are inappropriate for depicting how they are communicated (or, rather, exchanged) through the new media. The former depict monologic (one-to-many) communication...
The Department of Defense is releasing for public use and research this multi-volume study giving the "MAGIC" or communications intelligence background of the 1941 Pearl Harbor disaster. In its review of classified records pursuant to E.O. 11652,...
This publication supplements standard English-language dictionaries with standard terminology for military and associated use. However, it is not the intent of this publication to restrict the authority of the joint force commander (JFC) from...