The U.S. Department of War’s Joint Planning Process (JPP), optimized for tame, geographically bounded, and domain-specific problems, repeatedly falters against today’s wicked security challenges....
This paper argues that persistent analytic failure in U.S. irregular warfare stems less from poor execution of deductive frameworks than from their dominance over...
This paper posits that norm entrepreneurship is a critical component of building partner capacity in fragile states because, without the adoption of U.S. military...
Australia is engaged in strategic competition with autocratic regimes, yet its defense policy remains disproportionately oriented toward conventional conflict. This paper argues that proxy...
ISBN: 978-0691260341, Princeton University Press, 2024, 280 pages, $29.95 (Hardcover) Reviewed by: Anthony Canevello, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida, United States In Technology...
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