This monograph presents a method for military planners to operationalize an adversary's culture during conceptual planning. To present this methodology, the monograph asks the question, is a Western way of war distinctly different from a...
Current and past military commitments in Iraq, Afghanistan, Korea, and Vietnam have been influenced by military advice to civilian leaders over the past 60+ years. This monograph examines whether today's military processes and culture adequately...
This monograph examines Chinese warfare and suggests that three and a half millennia of Chinese military history have produced a distinctive and enduring Chinese way of war. While the art and science of war in China have evolved considerably...
This monograph addresses how humans think and make sense of the world, and whether the current logic used by the U.S. military is still useful for understanding and influencing a world where complexity continues to increase. Drawing from elements...
This anthology presents 14 insightful, personal accounts from those who advised foreign armies in various times and places over the last 100 years. CSI is publishing this occasional paper as a supplement to Occasional Paper 18, "Advising Indigenous...
The attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001, originating from Afghanistan, and the earthquake in January 2010 that devastated Haiti illustrate the different dangers that weak and failed states represent to the international...
Hybrid threat actors seek to master unrestricted operational art in order to reconcile overmatch and protect or advance their interests. As interest-based rational actors, hybrid threats translate strategic intent into unrestricted distributed...
When major combat operations come to a close, decisive action is paramount. Without deliberate action in subsequent stability operations, there is risk of marginalizing previous victories. Expeditionary economic theory offers a solution for...
This study examines the evolution and continued applicability of the corpus, both conventional and customary, that constitutes the law of war. The author provides a theoretical framework and the development of the law within Western and,...
Even though it appears to the general public that the military does not abide by the Geneva Convention and it appears the military mistreats Prisoners of War (POWs), it is actually the media coverage and politics that has impacted our military...
Current Army doctrine lacks a security metrics paradigm similar to the infrastructure paradigm SWEAT-MSO. Because of this, commanders, staff, subordinates, other government leaders, and the media lack a simple and common set of terms to use when...
The changing face of war: into the fourth generation. William S. Lind, Colonel John Schmitt, US Marine Corps, Colonel Joseph W. Sutton, US Army, Colonel Keith M. Nightengale, US Army, and Lieutenant Colonel G.I. Wilson, US Marine Corps...
When military units are deployed overseas in support of the Gulf War on Terrorism (GWOT) Soldiers are confronted with adapting to a new cultural environment, in order to conduct military operations. During the deployment process unit personnel are...
The history of POWs captured by enemy combatants during wars and conflicts dates back from ancient, middle, and modern times to the present. During every conflict there have been POWs taken from large numbers during WWI, WWII, Korean War, and the...
In all conflicts there are war crimes and atrocities committed, however, there are fewer in modern times than conflicts of the past. Throughout the 20th century, war crimes and atrocities were committed by different countries at war. Historical and...
World War II is remembered for some of history’s most unspeakable acts of war crimes and atrocities committed against humanity. In Europe, Germany’s Adolph Hitler attempted to carry out the destruction of the Jewish population, leading to the...
Americans over time have been disappointed with the ethical treatment of Prisoners of War. Since World War I, through our present conflicts we as a nation have paid close attention to how human beings are treated when they become captured. Most...
This extensive and detailed study of the Huai Hai Campaign addresses a doctrinal concept that is of growing importance to the US Army operational art. It does so by looking at a campaign that occurred over a half century ago on a relatively...