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American strategies for the employment of airpower are increasingly based on the presumption of rapidly attaining air superiority with minimal losses. Such strategies presume an ability to locate and destroy enemy air defenses, exploiting US advantages in intelligence collection, stealth, and precision strike. While stealth technology has given US forces a huge advantage over most adversaries, and enables unprecedented freedom of action, this ...

The 2001 Report of the Commission to Assess United States National Security Space Management and Organization recommended that U.S. efforts in national security space be elevated to the highest national security priority. With more focused high-level attention on national security space decisions, a measure that captures and quantities the value of space capabilities to combat operations professionals is desired. This thesis models what the ai...

Since the end of the Cold War, the United States has moved away from its traditional way of using military force to achieve decisive victory. Instead, the U.S. used limited coercive engagements designed to compel an adversary to bend to our will. In these campaigns, the U.S. did not fight to protect vital national interests but to promote less important or humanitarian goals. The national interest was not at stake in these campaigns and legiti...

Without action, America is putting its national security on the line, and we are going to miss the opportunities of the Arctic while watching other nations advance.#65533, -- Alaskan Lieutenant Governer Mead Treadwell The time to start shaping the U.S. Arctic security interests is now. The Arctic offers both commercial opportunity and security if it is successfully implemented into U.S. national policy objectives and strategy. With 90 billion ...

In the last forty years Colombia has descended into a quagmire of chaos and violence unmatched in the history of modern western civilization. Leftist insurgent groups, who seek the violent overthrow of the national government, are opposed, by right-wing paramilitary groups in a bitter civil war that has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and displaced millions more. The conflict has resulted in a partition of the country in w...

In this paper, the author addresses a support force structure issue-the size of the DOD acquisition workforce. The last four National Defense Authorization Acts (NDAAs) have mandated cuts to this workforce. Zealots in Congress, mostly in the House National Security Committee, have targeted the acquisition workforce as low hanging fruit to fund modernization and readiness programs that have been neglected for years. Despite reductions the Servi...

What leads a woman to resist? What makes a woman, the traditional nurturer of the family unit, take up arms or actively engage in resistance? In the case of WWII Nazi occupied Europe, a number of reasons inspired female resistance fighters: religion, politics, love of country and personal experience. In the 21st century, similar reasons have inspired a new generation of female resistance fighters whom the western world has dubbed "terrorists" ...

The United Nations policy toward Iraq, consisting of economic sanctions and what has come to be known as the Oil for Food program, is flawed- it does not meet either the national security objectives or the humanitarian objectives it was set out to accomplish. Saddam Hussein is still a threat and the Oil for Food program, the largest humanitarian program ever administered by the United Nations (UN), has done little to stop the widespread suffer...

The rapid pace of technological change demands equally frenetic efforts by our military to find more effective ways to deter and defeat our potential competitors and battlefield opponents. Over the past decade or so, we have been moving at an impressive pace in our attempts to advance military doctrine and improve joint military operations. Nevertheless, for the most part our changes to warfighting doctrine have been largely evolutionary. It i...

Analysis of a large combat campaign using game theory is difficult due to non-linearities and other soft factors which exist in a complex system. However, game theory can give decision makers insight into strategies and outcomes that can be utilized to maximize one's objective. Agent-based simulation provides the means to model complex systems with non-linearities, by allowing for interactions among independent "agents." This thesis investigat...