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A step-by-step approach to applying the Japanese warrior's mind set to martial training and daily life.

This volume of the Future of Warfare series examines significant factors shaping military trends over the next 10-15 years: changes in the size, quality, and character of military forces available to the United States and its potential adversaries.

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They call themselves Keepers of the Covenant, the Illuminati, God's one true Church. Believed to be wiped out in the 4th century, they survived in secret and spread around the globe, ultimately becoming rich and powerful, manipulating governments and influencing world events from behind the scenes. Owen Powell is the Arbiter, the ultimate authority and enforcer in disputes between the Covenant's 12 Great Houses. A former U.S. Army Ranger and i...

This report introduces and explains a game-theoretic methodology to help decisionmakers assess the potential effects of alternative approaches to space control.

In an international crisis, the United States must balance its threats with restraint while limiting its vulnerability. A RAND study sought to identify which long-range strike assets offer capabilities most conducive to stabilizing such crises.

In 1959, Alexander George reconstructed a methodology the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) used to analyze Nazi propaganda during World War II. This same methodology, with adjustments for differences in culture and ideology, might have been used to analyze North Vietnamese propaganda to help evaluate the effectiveness of America's coercive air campaign against North Vietnam. Throughout the war, North Vietnamese leaders used political pr...

Compellence is a fundamental tool of international security policy. This study explains how culture shapes the ways that decision-makers respond to the threat of force. Morgan builds a theoretical framework and analyzes three cases in which states attempted to compel Japan to change its behavior. The first is an in-depth analysis of the 1895 "triple intervention" in which Russia, Germany, and France forced Japanese leaders to return the Liaotu...

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Escalation is a natural tendency in any form of human competition, and the security environment demands that the US be prepared for a host of escalatory threats. This book offers an analysis of escalation dynamics and approaches to escalation management.

Space stability appears to be eroding as a growing number of states acquire the ability to degrade or destroy U.S. space assets. The United States needs a coordinated national space deterrence strategy designed to operate on both sides of a potential adversary1s cost-benefit decision calculus. Future research will determine the most effective and affordable mix of strategies, policies, and systems for strengthening space deterrence.

The authors exposit likely developments in Pakistan's internal and external security environment over the coming decade, assess Pakistan's national will and capacity to solve its problems, especially those relating to security, describe U.S. interests in Pakistan, and suggest policies for the U.S. government to pursue in order to secure those interests.