Session 5: Military Analysis
Professional development opportunities:
Readings for awareness:
Video: Does NATO Still Matter?
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) just turned seventy, and some of its own members have become deeply critical of the organization. In this Inside the Issues video, Senior Fellow Shannon K. O'Neil breaks down what purpose NATO serves in the twenty-first century and whether the United States still needs it. Watch the video
- https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2020/2/20/the-2020-strategy-bridge-student-writing-competition-on-strategy
- https://www.aase.org/
- https://www.clementscenter.org/programs/clements-summer-seminar-in-history-and-statecraft
- https://www.siwps.org/programs/summer-workshop-on-the-analysis-of-military-operations-and-strategy/
Readings for awareness:
- New Army Training Team Heads to Africa - The goal is to use the teams to advise and assist security forces in other countries, and take the pressure off other Army brigades that have been used to do training but are needed for other national security missions. In addition to the three brigades that have already deployed, three others, including one in the National Guard, are in various stages of development and training.
- Battles with characteristics of near-peer combat are raging in Africa — especially in Libya, where high-tech precision strike weapons are flooding the battlefield. And at a time when the U.S. is considering drawing down troops, the conflict in Libya is providing Pentagon planners with an opportunity to better prepare for any future conflict with China or Russia. – Military Times
- https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2020/2/12/reviewing-aiding-and-abetting
- https://www.usip.org/publications/2020/02/role-aid-and-development-fight-against-extremism
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/al-qaeda-islamic-state-sahel-west-africa/2020/02/21/7218bc50-536f-11ea-80ce-37a8d4266c09_story.html
Video: Does NATO Still Matter?
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) just turned seventy, and some of its own members have become deeply critical of the organization. In this Inside the Issues video, Senior Fellow Shannon K. O'Neil breaks down what purpose NATO serves in the twenty-first century and whether the United States still needs it. Watch the video
Session 3: Data for Security Policy Analysis
Videos/Movies:
Articles:
Books:
- New America - Wild Pitch: Curveball and Selling the Iraq War
- The Lazarus Effect (antiretrovirals)
- The Devil's Double
- Official Secrets
- Gattaca
Articles:
- CFR Conflicts to Watch in 2020: Preventive Priorities Survey Results
- The Bartender Who Accidentally Saved the World re: Cuban Missile Crisis
- When human capital threatens the Capitol: Foreign aid in the form of military training and coups How does aid in the form of training influence foreign militaries’ relationship to domestic politics? The United States has trained tens of thousands of officers in foreign militaries with the goals of increasing its security and instilling respect for human rights, democracy, and civilian control. We argue that training increases the military’s power relative to the regime in a way that other forms of military assistance do not. While other forms of military assistance are somewhat fungible, allowing the regime to shift resources towards coup-proofing, human capital is a resource vested solely in the military. Training thus alters the balance of power between the military and the regime resulting in greater coup propensity. Using data from 189 countries from 1970 to 2009 we show that greater numbers of military officers trained by the US International Military Education and Training (IMET) and Countering Terrorism Fellowship (CTFP) programs increases the probability of a military coup.
Books:
Session 2: Methods for Security Policy Analysis
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Rwandan Genocide
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