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- 1From:AEI Paper & StudiesExecutive Summary Deterrence is an instinctive part of shared existence, whether among individuals, groups, or nations. It convinces adversaries not to engage in aggressive acts they may otherwise have viewed as...
- 2From:Military Periscope Special ReportsFall of fighter maker emblematic of defense industry struggles under Putin The brand label "MiG" has long been synonymous with Russian-made jet fighter aircraft. This name association was so embedded in the public mind...
- 3From:AEI Paper & StudiesKey Points * The United States can apply lessons from Cold War political warfare--the employment of all means short of war to achieve national objectives--to modern competition with China and Russia. * Political...
- 4From:Military Periscope Special ReportsIt was not until the 1990s--after German reunification in 1990 and the fall of the Soviet Union the next year--that Western specialists got their first chance to closely examine and fly one of the combat aircraft that...
- 5From:Slowing Military ChangeHowever, technology is only half the story when it comes to the contemporary strategic environment. Focus is now shifted from technology to a range of broader issues, including the nature of conflict. Again, from...
- 6From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Julius (1918-1953) and Ethel (1915-1953) Rosenberg were a nondescript couple accused in 1950 by the United States government of operating a Soviet spy network and giving the Soviet Union plans for...
- 7From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Combining the talents of the diplomat with the wisdom of the scholar, George F. Kennan (born 1904) left a powerful impression on his age. Author of the famed "Doctrine of Containment," he helped to...
- 8From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY The West German politician Franz Josef Strauss (1915-1988) was a founder of the Christian Social Union and its standard bearer for four decades. He was minister president of Bavaria beginning in...
- 9From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsSummary The Bush Administration has outlined a strategy of "tailored deterrence" to define the role that nuclear weapons play in U.S. national security policy. There has been little discussion of this concept, either...
- 10From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Phyllis Schlafly (born 1924) was an American conservative political activist and author, noted for her vocal and well-organized opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment. Phyllis Stewart was born...
- 11From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) was leader of the Allied forces in Europe in World War II, commander of NATO, and thirty-fourth president of the United States. Dwight Eisenhower was born in...
- 12From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY The American journalist I. F. Stone (1907-1989) published the iconoclastic political newsletter I. F. Stone's Weekly from 1953 to 1971. A critic of the Cold War and McCarthyism, his opposition to...
- 13From:Short of General War: Perspectives on the Use of Military Power in the 21st CenturyINTRODUCTION The end of the Cold War brought about a new era of remarkable changes in the strategic perspective of the U.S. Government (USG). Within this confluence of changes, two independent threads of thought...
- 14From:Short of General War: Perspectives on the Use of Military Power in the 21st CenturyLooking out to 2025, many see the potential for a prolonged period of instability as a result of competing economic models, demographics, the rise of new international actors and the resurgence of old ones, climate...
- 15From:Short of General War: Perspectives on the Use of Military Power in the 21st CenturySuccess in the Cold War unleashed a myriad of threats and challenges to the stability of the emerging U.S. inspired global order. Instability portends no good for U.S. national interests or the values on which these...
- 16From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsThe FY2013 Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 4310, Section 1037) indicates that it is the sense of Congress that "the United States should pursue negotiations with the Russian Federation aimed at the reduction of Russian...
- 17From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY The Polish author and poet Czeslaw Milosz (born 1911), winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature, explored in his work both the rebirth of Christian belief and the corruption of thought by...
- 18From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsUpdated January 3, 2006 NATO and the European Union Summary Since the end of the Cold War, both NATO and the European Union (EU) have evolved along with Europe's changed strategic landscape. While NATO's...
- 19From:AEI Paper & StudiesAs with the broader policy of containment, the vast literature of Cold War deterrence provides a useful framework for thinking about deterring a nuclear Iran. The nature of the Iranian regime is much different than the...
- 20From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Leslie Groves (1896-1970) was the officer in the United States Army Corps of Engineers who directed the Manhattan Project (atom bomb) during World War II. Leslie Richard Groves was born in...