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The Chancellorsville 

Campaign, January-May 1863

The Chancellorsville Campaign 

is part of a series of books 

about the Civil War called The 

U.S. Army Campaigns of the 

Civil War. The book recounts 

the battle of Chancellorsville, 

fought in the spring of 1863 in 

Virginia’s Piedmont region, which 

pitted a powerful Union Army under its newly appointed 

commander, Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker, against a 

significantly smaller but well-led Confederate force under 

General Robert E. Lee. Hooker had refit and reorganized 

his 130,000 men into a potent fighting force over the 

winter following the Union Army of the Potomac’s bloody 

defeat at Fredericksburg, Virginia, in December 1862, 

under Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside. In the end, it 

was Lee and his chief subordinate, Maj. Gen. Thomas 

J. “Stonewall” Jackson, who achieved what many 

historians have called the South’s greatest victory during 

the American Civil War.

S/N # 008-029-00555-7

ISBN: 9780160917547

Paperback; Price: $6.00

U.S. Army Campaigns of the 

Civil War: The Maryland and 

Fredericksburg Campaigns, 

1862-1863

Although over one hundred 

fifty years have passed since 

the start of the American 

Civil War, that titanic conflict 

continues to matter. The forces 

unleashed by that war were 

immensely destructive because of the significant issues 

involved: the existence of the Union, the end of slavery, 

and the very future of the nation. The Campaigns 

herein demonstrate the uncertainty on the battlefield 

with considerably different outcomes. The Maryland 

Campaign was a battlefield draw but a strategic success 

for the Union. In the Fredricksburg Campaign, General 

Lee’s Army defeated the Union forces; setting the stage 

for a second Confederate invasion of the North in 1863.

S/N # 008-029-00594-8 

ISBN: 9780160930218 

Paperback; 2015: 61 p.; ill. Price: $8.00 

U.S. Army Campaigns of the 

Civil War: The Civil War on the 

Atlantic Coast, 1861-1865

In The Civil War on the Atlantic 

Coast, 1861–1865, R. Scott 

Moore states, over the course of 

four years of war, Federal military 

operations along the Atlantic 

coast played a key role in slowly 

strangling the Confederacy. The 

broad strategy first envisioned by Maj. Gen. Winfield 

Scott and detailed by the Commission of Conference 

ultimately proved highly effective. Bit by bit the North 

closed off rebel commerce while keeping Southern 

coastal communities in a state of alarm that tied down 

the Confederacy’s hard-pressed military manpower. 

Despite their relatively few numbers and often forgotten 

efforts, soldiers who served along the Atlantic coast 

played a crucial part in the outcome of the Civil War.

S/N # 008-029-00593-0

ISBN: 9780160930195

Paperback; 2015: 64 p.; ill. Price: $8.00
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U.S. Army Campaigns of the 

Civil War: The Civil War in 

the West, 1863

This series of books on the 

American Civil War, was 

prepared to commemorate 

the national sacrifices made 

by members of the U. S. Army 

who died to preserve the Union 

and free the slaves. These 

books tell the stories of American soldiers who fought 

for the Confederacy despite the problematics of that 

cause. In telling the story of The Civil War in the West, 

during the year of 1863, this book discusses important 

military figures and strategies, battles and operations, 

and is filled with historical photographs and artwork and 

supplemented with explanatory maps. One of a thoughtprovoking series.

S/N # 008-029-00618-9 

ISBN: 9780160936050

Paperback; 2016: 53 p.; ill. Price: $7.00

Army Campaigns of the 

Civil War: The Army and 

Reconstruction, 1865-1877

Within two months of 

Confederate General Robert E. 

Lee’s surrender at Appomattox 

Court House on 9 April 1865, the 

Confederacy had collapsed, and 

its armed forces had ceased to 

exist. In the spring of 1865, the 

U.S. Army faced the unprecedented task of occupying 

eleven conquered Southern states and administering 

“Reconstruction”—the process by which the former 

rebellious states would be restored to the Union. But a 

rapid demobilization of the Army placed the remaining 

occupation troops at a disadvantage almost from the 

start.

From May 1865 to the end of Reconstruction in 1877, 

Southern states remained under military occupation, 

and for several years, they were also ruled by military 

government. 

S/N # 008-029-00590-5

ISBN: 9780160928727

Paperback; 2015: 76 p.; ill. Price: $9.00

“America will never be destroyed 

from the outside. If we falter 

and lose our freedoms, it will 

be because we destroyed 

ourselves.”

– Abraham Lincoln
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VIETNAM THROUGH AFGHANISTAN

U.S. Army Campaigns of 

the Vietnam War: Taking 

the Offensive, October 

1966-September 1967

Taking the Offensive, October 

1966–September 1967, by 

Glenn F. Williams, begins with 

a discussion of Operation 

ATTLEBORO in Tay Ninh 

Province. The largest allied 

operation to date in the war, ATTLEBORO forced the 

9th PLAF Division to abandon its attack on Suoi Da 

Special Forces camp and cost over 1,000 enemy lives. 

Additional action in War Zone C, including Operations 

CEDAR FALLS, JUNCTION CITY, and JUNCTION CITY 

II, highlight the U.S. Army effort to disrupt the network of 

camps and supply stores of the North Vietnamese main 

force units through ground and air assault. Operations in 

Binh Dinh Province—THAYER I, THAYER II, PERSHING, 

and LEJEUNE—continued to inflict heavy losses on the 

enemy. The efforts of the U.S. Army throughout Vietnam 

during this time allowed for growing political stability in 

South Vietnam leading up to the 3 September 1967 

election.

S/N # 008-029-00615-4

ISBN: 9780160935015 

Paperback; 2016: 86 p.; ill. Price: $8.00

The Strategic Lessons 

Unlearned From Vietnam, 

Iraq, and Afghanistan: Why 

the Afghan National Security 

Forces Will Not Hold, and the 

Implications for the U.S. Army 

in Afghanistan

This monograph examines the 

Afghan National Security Forces 

in historical and political contexts; 

explains why the authors project the ANSF will fail at the 

tactical, operational, and strategic levels of war; why they 

cannot and will not succeed in holding the southern half 

of the country; and what will happen in Afghanistan yearby-year from 2015 to 2019. Finally, the authors examine 

what the critical lessons unlearned of these conflicts 

are for U.S. military leaders, why these fundamental 

political lessons seem to remain unlearned, and how 

the strategic mistakes of the past can be avoided in the 

future. The contributions to operational war gaming in 

Afghanistan in Appendix II alone make this publication a 

must-read.

S/N # 008-000-01165-6

ISBN: 9781584876830 

Paperback; 2015: 236 p. Price: $29.00

“I can imagine no more 

rewarding a career. And any 

man who may be asked in this 

century what he did to make 

his life worthwhile, I think can 

respond with a good deal of 

pride and satisfaction: I served 

in the United States Navy.” 

– John F. Kennedy
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Alternative Governance 

Structures in Megacities: 

Threats or Opportunities?

Many cities are growing into 

“mega” land areas filled with 

complex terrain and populations 

where the U.S. military will 

undoubtedly have to engage. 

Often, states fail to provide basic 

services to some territories, 

leaving inhabitants disenfranchised. These gaps are 

then filled by social entrepreneurs, often ethnic or 

religious-based civil society groups—or even organized 

crime syndicates—who effectively identify niche needs 

in the marketplace and fill them more effectively than 

other competitors, including traditional state authorities. 

Leaders of these groups maintain control through 

various means, including: violence, coercion, and service 

provision; or through tribal, religious, or other cultural ties 

and structures. This book addresses the emergence of 

alternative governance and whether it represents a threat 

or opportunity to U.S. interests.

S/N # 008-000-01214-8

ISBN: 9781584877400

Paperback; 2016: 68 p. Price: $11.00

Should We Let the Bomb 

Spread?

Nuclear deterrence and 

nonproliferation no longer enjoy 

the broad support they once 

did among some parties during 

the Cold War. Academics and 

security experts now question 

the ability of either to cope or 

check nuclear rogue states 

or terrorists. On the one hand, America’s closest 

allies—e.g., Japan and South Korea—believe American 

nuclear security guarantees are critical to their survival. If 

the United States is unwilling to provide Tokyo or Seoul 

with the assurance they believe they need, would it then 

not make sense for them to acquire nuclear forces of 

their own? On the other hand, with more nuclear-armed 

states and an increased willingness to use nuclear 

weapons, how likely is it that nuclear deterrence will 

work?

S/N # 008-000-01216-4

ISBN: 9781584877349

Paperback; 2016: 237 p. Price: $26.00

Terrorist and Insurgent 

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: 

Use, Potentials, and Military 

Implications

This manuscript focuses on the 

present threat posed by terrorist 

and insurgent use of unmanned 

aerial vehicles (UAVs), as well 

as associated future threat 

potentials. The work presents 

a counterintuitive analysis, in the sense that armed 

drones are typically viewed as a component of America’s 

conventional warfighting prowess—not a technology that 

would be used against U.S. troops deployed overseas or 

against civilians back home.

The analysis not only has immediate value for Army force 

protection and counterterrorism programs, but also 

for research being conducted on projected robot-onhuman force-on-force engagements in insurgency type 

environments. It also discusses strategic considerations 

related to emerging “drone swarm” concepts; and the 

changing character of warfare as robot land power 

technologies evolve and are increasingly fielded.

S/N # 008-000-01199-1

ISBN: 9781584876984

Paperback; 2015: 72 p. Price: $11.00
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NATO Cyberspace Capability: 

A Strategic and Operational 

Evolution

This monograph examines 

the past and current state 

of cyberspace defense 

efforts in NATO to assess the 

appropriateness and sufficiency 

to address anticipated threats 

to member countries, including 

the United States. The analysis focuses on the recent 

history of cyberspace defense efforts in NATO and 

how changes in strategy and policy of NATO writ large 

embrace the emerging nature of cyberspace for military 

forces as well as other elements of power. 

It examines the recent evolution of strategic foundations 

of NATO cyber activities, policies, and governance as 

they evolved over the past 13 years and outlines the 

major NATO cyber defense mission areas, which include 

NATO network protection, shared situational awareness 

in cyberspace, critical infrastructure protection, counterterrorism, support to member country cyber capability 

development, and response to crises related to 

cyberspace. 

S/N # 008-000-01191-5

ISBN: 9781584877288

Paperback; 2016: 107 p. Price: $15.00

Cyberspace: Malevolent 

Actors, Criminal 

Opportunities, and Strategic 

Competition

The emergence and evolution 

of cyberspace have been an 

enormously positive force, 

contributing to globalization, 

the creation of a new global 

commons, the rapid spread 

of knowledge and ideas, the development of global 

markets for local products, and the empowerment of 

individuals and small groups. 

Cyberspace has become a high-risk venue and medium. 

Key attributes of cyberspace, such as the low cost of 

entry, ubiquity, and relative anonymity provide unique 

opportunities for malevolent actors and actions. The 

author states that many of the characteristics that make 

cyberspace attractive also make it highly vulnerable to 

disruption and exploitation. What’s more problematic, 

cyberspace is constantly evolving and expanding in 

numbers of users, types of users, access, means of 

access, and forms of connectivity. At the same time, 

governance mechanisms lag far behind.

S/N # 008-000-01210-5

ISBN: 9781584877264

Paperback; 2016: 700 p. Price: $66.00

Using Target Audience 

Analysis To Aid Strategic Level 

Decision-making

In this monograph, one of 

the world’s leading experts in 

Information Operations explains 

the science behind what he calls 

population intelligence (POPINT). 

He explains how sophisticated 

social science research and 

behavioral profiling can be used to warn us of impeding 

issues, and how that information might be used by 

senior strategy makers as a tool for testing and refining 

strategy. This is not some ethereal dream; Dr. Tatham 

shows us that these techniques have been used already 

to great success. Yet he argues, forcefully, that we are 

collectively still caught up in old ideas and thinking. He 

makes a compelling case that the science of Target 

Audience Analysis (TAA) is now so well advanced that 

it must become a key component of future strategic 

decision making

S/N # 008-000-01200-8 

ISBN: 9781584876991

Paperback; 2015: 69 p. Price: $10.00
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Training Humans for the 

Human Domain

The author links the strategic, 

operational, and tactical arenas 

of the campaigns in Iraq and 

Afghanistan. It’s both a revealing 

analysis of the organizational 

origins of the Human Terrain 

System and a tactical history 

delineated through the 

experiences and insights of former Human Terrain Team 

social scientists set against the building of a wider 

debate in academia and media on the efficacy and 

ethicality of the system. The book exposes war at the 

most intense and challenging level, delineating contours 

of two conflicts characterized by deep military footprints, 

fought among civilian populations.

S/N # 008-000-01173-7

ISBN: 9781584877042

Paperback; 2015: 55 p. Price: $10.00

The Strategic Logic of the 

Contemporary 

Security Dilemma

The reality and severity of 

the threats associated with 

contemporary transnational 

security problems indicate 

that the U.S. and its national 

and international partners 

need a new paradigm for the 

conduct of unconventional asymmetric conflict, and 

an accompanying new paradigm for strategic leader 

development. The strategic-level basis of these new 

paradigms is found in the fact that the global community 

is redefining security in terms of nothing less than a 

reconceptualization of sovereignty. 

The writers address some of the strategic-level 

questions and recommendations that arise out of that 

debate; probably generating more questions than 

answers, but believe it’s time to begin the strategic-level 

discussion.

S/N # 008-000-01077-3

ISBN: 9781584875147

Paperback; 2011: 107 p. Price: $14.00

Operationalizing Counter 

Threat Finance Strategies

In this Letort Paper monograph, 

British academic and practitioner, 

Dr. Shima Keene describes a 

number of ways in which financial 

intelligence can be leveraged not 

only to disrupt adversary activities, 

but also to provide indicators 

and warnings of future actions 

and, ultimately, to address underlying insecurities. Dr. 

Keene was previously both a banker and a British Army 

reservist. In this monograph, she uses her expertise 

as a threat finance specialist to outline specific areas 

where financial intelligence analysis techniques, which 

are common in the private sector, can be applied to 

combating insurgency, terrorism, and other hard security 

threats.

S/N # 008-000-01131-1

 ISBN: 9781584876533

Paperback; 2014: 46 p. Price: $7.00

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A Hard Look at Hard Power:

Assessing the Defense 

Capabilities of Key U.S. Allies

Since World War II, a key element 

of America’s grand strategy has 

been its worldwide network of 

strategic allies and partners. 

The network has provided the 

United States an invaluable 

global presence, enhanced 

deterrence against adversaries, and, when called upon, 

provided men and material to help fight wars. However, 

following the end of the Cold War, less attention was 

paid to America’s allies, especially their “hard power” 

capabilities, despite the United States and its allies 

going to war more frequently than before. This volume 

addresses that gap, providing a holistic account of allied 

hard power and, in turn, the ability – and, indirectly, 

the willingness – of those same partners to use force 

independently or in concert with the United States and 

other allies.

S/N # 008-000-01158-3

ISBN: 9781584876847

Paperback; 2015: 390 p. Price: $43.00

Operating in the Gray Zone: 

An Alternative Paradigm for 

U.S. Military Strategy

So-called gray zone wars are not 

new, but they have highlighted 

shortcomings in the way the West 

thinks about war and strategy. 

This monograph proposes an 

alternative to the U.S. military’s 

current campaign-planning 

framework, one oriented on achieving positional 

advantages over rival powers and built around the use 

of a coercion-deterrence dynamic germane to almost all 

wars as well as to conflicts short of war.

Many security experts are calling for revolutionary 

measures to address what they wrongly perceive to be a 

new form of warfare, called “hybrid” or “gray zone” wars, 

but which is, in fact, an application of classic coercive 

strategies. 

S/N # 008-000-01183-4

ISBN: 9781584877257

Paperback; 2016: 67 p.; ill. Price: $11.00

Underestimated: Our Not So 

Peaceful Nuclear Future

With the world focused on 

the nuclear crisis in Iran, it is 

tempting to think that addressing 

this case, North Korea, and the 

problem of nuclear terrorism 

is all that matters and is what 

matters most. If states become 

more willing to use their nuclear 

weapons to achieve military advantage, the problem of 

proliferation will become much more unwieldy. In this 

case, U.S. security will be hostage not just to North 

Korea, Iran, or terrorists, but to nuclear proliferation more 

generally, diplomatic miscalculations, and wars between 

a much larger number of possible players.

Will nuclear weapons spread in the next 20 years to 

more nations than just North Korea and possibly Iran? 

How great will the consequences be? What can be 

done?

S/N # 008-000-01175-3

ISBN: 9781584877196 

Paperback; 2015: 151 p. Price: $20.00
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RUSSIAN HEGEMONY AND AMERICA’S RESPONSE

Project 1704: A U.S. Army War 

College Analysis of Russian 

Strategy in Eastern Europe, an 

Appropriate U.S. Response, 

and the Implications for U.S. 

Landpower

In the summer of 2014, Russia 

forcibly annexed Crimea from 

Ukraine and then actively 

supported ethnic Russian separatists in an on-going 

irredentist bid in Eastern Ukraine. This aggressive policy 

threatens to challenge NATO and the United States 

in its support of Ukraine and other nations of Eastern 

Europe. From this changing strategic environment, 

three central questions emerge: (1) What is the Russian 

strategy in their periphery? (2) What is the appropriate 

U.S. response? (3) What are the implications for U.S. 

land power? The Russian Strategic Environment: 

Vladimir Putin’s grand strategy relies on a complex mix of 

diplomatic, informational, military, and economic factors 

to preserve and expand Russian global power.

S/N # 008-000-01206-7

ISBN: 9780160934698

Paperback; 2015: 168 p. Price: $21.00

The New Russian Engagement 

With Latin America: Strategic 

Position, Commerce, and 

Dreams of the Past

In many ways, Russia’s expanded 

engagement in Latin America as 

a response to escalating tension 

over the Ukraine was a repetition 

of its answer to U.S. involvement 

in the 2008 conflict in the former 

Soviet Republic of Georgia. In the latter conflict, the U.S. 

deployed naval forces to the Black Sea in response to 

Russian support for the breakaway republics of Abkhazia 

and South Ossetia. Russia countered with a series of 

actions in Latin America, including sending nuclearcapable Tu-160 bombers to Venezuela, from where 

they conducted symbolically-charged flights around the 

Caribbean. 

Very little beyond journalistic accounts have been written 

to examine Russian activities in Latin America and the 

Caribbean. As Russia’s reassertion of its global position 

and associated tensions with the United States proceed, 

a broad understanding of Russia in the Americas 

becomes ever more important, both as a question of 

U.S. national security and as an important dynamic 

shaping the global geopolitical environment.

S/N # 008-000-01159-1

ISBN: 9781584876878

Paperback; 2015: 132 p. Price: $18.00

Strategic Land power and 

a Resurgent Russia: An 

Operational Approach to 

Deterrence

Russian actions are becoming 

increasingly important to 

policymakers, strategists, and 

military leaders. Some leaders 

have gone as far as saying that 

Russia is the only existential 

threat to the United States—mostly due to its nuclear 

arsenal. Russia’s actions over the past few years have 

shown that the United States needs to devote greater 

attention to Russia, its intentions, and its leaders. This 

monograph is one small—but important— step in that 

direction.

In conducting research, the research team confirmed the 

United States has implemented a wide range of actions 

to counter Russia’s actions. Research also brought 

to light questions whether those actions are properly 

focused, particularly as it pertains to deterrence, as well 

as against a threat not entirely like that faced during the 

Cold War. This monograph seeks to flesh out the answer 

to these and other questions by exploring Russia’s 

intentions

S/N # 008-000-01188-5

ISBN: 9781584877318

Paperback; 2016: 212 p. Price: $24.00
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From Cooperation to 

Competition: 

The Future of U.S. - Russian 

Relations

Russian aggression in 2014 

caught U.S. policy and strategy 

off guard, forcing reactive 

measures and reevaluation 

of the U.S. approach toward 

Russia. Moscow employed 

nonlinear methodologies and operated just beneath 

traditional thresholds of conflict to take full advantage of 

U.S. and NATO policy and process limitations. In light 

of this strategic problem, the U.S. Army War College 

(USAWC), conducted a wargame that revealed four key 

considerations for future policy and strategy:

•The U.S. must shift from a mostly cooperative 

approach towards Russia to one that recognizes the 

competitive nature of Moscow strategy.

• U.S. policy must clearly articulate its position toward 

Russia, Eastern Europe, and Ukraine

• U.S. policy must challenge Russia in the competition of 

ideas and influence

• U.S. policy must account for the two national election 

cycles in 2016 and 2018

Strategic Studies Institute, Stock # 008-000-01204-1 

ISBN: 9780160934704

S/N: 008-000-01204-1

ISBN: 9780160934704

Paperback; 2015: 29 p.; ill. Price: $6.00

Russian Ballistic Missile 

Defense: 

Rhetoric and Reality

U.S. plans for ballistic missile 

defense (BMD) capability in 

Europe have led to aggressive 

rhetoric from Moscow, which 

continues at the time of this 

writing. Russia’s strenuous 

opposition to the U.S. European 

Phased Adaptive Approach plans is based on claims 

that this capability is intended to compromise Russia’s 

nuclear deterrent capability. Most of these claims have 

been dismissed as groundless. Yet, all discussion of 

the subject highlights the U.S. current and proposed 

deployments, and entirely ignores Russia’s own 

missile interception systems, which are claimed to 

have comparable capability. Russia protests that U.S. 

missiles pose a potential threat to strategic stability, and 

has made belligerent threats of direct military action 

to prevent their deployment. This monograph aims to 

describe Russia’s claims for its missile defense systems, 

and, where possible, to assess the likelihood that these 

claims are true. 

S/N # 008-000-01163-0

ISBN: 9781584876892

Paperback; 2015: 69 p. Price: $11.00

The Hour of Truth: The 

Conflict in Ukraine: 

Implications for Europe 

Energy Security and the 

Lessons for the U.S. Army

Since the breakup of the Soviet 

Union, a number of gas disputes 

between Russia and Central 

and Eastern European countries 

have unveiled the strategic 

dependence of Europe on Russian piped gas. The 

recent Ukrainian crisis demonstrated that Europe has a 

desperate need to improve the security of its gas supply. 

The United States is interested in the economic stability 

and growth of Europe because the European Union (EU) 

is its principal and largest economic partner. 

Europe’s energy independence is not only an economic 

interest of America, but also a political and security 

one. Europe’s dependence on Russian natural gas 

undermines European unity and weakens the primary 

U.S. allies in their relations with Russia. The author 

maintains that U.S. Armed Forces in Europe and the 

U.S. Army in particular can and should play an important 

role in promoting energy security

S/N # 008-000-01170-2

ISBN: 9781584877097

Paperback; 2015: 143 p. Price: $19.00
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THE RISE OF CHINA AND ACROSS THE PACIFIC RIM TO INDIA

The Pivot to Asia: Can It 

Serve as the Foundation for 

American Grand Strategy in 

the 21st Century?

This monograph is an audit of the 

policies pursued by the Obama 

Administration in support of the 

so-called “pivot to Asia.” After 

explaining why U.S. President 

Barack Obama chose to accord 

top priority to the Indo-Asia-Pacific (IAP) region, Dr. 

Douglas T. Stuart discusses the diplomatic, information, 

military, and economic instruments of power, which were 

available to Washington to accomplish its goals.

The author concludes with three lessons for strategists, 

based on the Obama Administration’s experience with 

the pivot strategy. All three lessons illustrate that the only 

thing harder than formulating a sophisticated long-term 

strategy is implementing and sustaining the policies that 

are implicit in that strategy.

S/N # 008-000-01207-5

ISBN: 9781584877332

Paperback; 2016: 86 p. Price: $12.00

Taking the Fight to the Enemy: 

Chinese Thinking about LongDistance and Expeditionary 

Operations

According to many analysts of 

China’s military, when an officer of 

the Chinese People’s Liberation 

Army (PLA) suggests new forms 

of operations, expanded domains 

of warfare, or new weapons 

systems, American security planners can dismiss 

these projections as merely “aspirational” thinking. This 

assessment of the PLA Academy of Military Science 

publication Long Distance Operations and other military 

publications of this genre propose that suggestions 

for forms of future warfare capture currents of thinking 

among mid-grade officers and also reflect how the 

senior political and military leaders in China want the 

PLA to evolve. 

In the past 5 years, the PLA has exercised to develop 

force projection and expeditionary capabilities. 

As described in brief in this analysis, in the past 6 

months, the PLA has changed its own force structure 

and posture in ways that will facilitate expeditionary 

operations.

S/N # 008-000-01192-3

ISBN: 9781584877295

Paperback; 2016: 59 p. Price: $10.00

The Chinese People’s 

Liberation Army in 2025

This volume, edited by Roy 

Kamphausen and David Lai, is 

of special relevance in light of 

the profound changes occurring 

within the Chinese People’s 

Liberation Army (PLA). China’s 

desire to develop a military 

commensurate with its diverse 

interests is both legitimate and understandable. The 

challenge for U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM) is to 

understand how China will employ this growing military 

capability in support of its interests. 

This book addresses the uncertainty surrounding the 

potential direction of the PLA by examining three distinct 

focus areas: domestic, external, and technological 

drivers of PLA modernization; alternative futures for the 

PLA; and implications for the region, world, and U.S.-

China relations. 

S/N # 008-000-01161-3

ISBN: 9781584876885

Paperback; 2015: 387 p. Price: $42.00
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THE RISE OF CHINA AND ACROSS THE PACIFIC RIM TO INDIA

China Rise and 

Reconfiguration of Central 

Asia Geopolitics: A Case for 

U.S. “Pivot” to Eurasia

The United States has a major 

stake in China’s and the region’s 

future because both directly 

affect the U.S. global standing 

and the U.S.-led global economic 

and security order. The author 

advocates for “a robust, direct, and long-term” U.S. 

engagement with the region. Washington, he argues, 

needs to complement its “Pivot to the Pacific” with a 

“Pivot to Eurasia” in order to shape China’s rise on both 

flanks and ensure a more managed evolution of the 

global economic and security architecture. 

According to the author, the U.S. “pivot” to Asia has 

aggravated China’s concerns of strategic encirclement 

by the United States and prompted Beijing to exploit an 

opening along the western track of its global expansion 

through Central Asia. China’s regional activities, he finds, 

are rapidly sidelining all other powers, and the U.S. 

planned withdrawal from Afghanistan and the region may 

herald lost strategic opportunities for Washington.

S/N # 008-000-01153-2

ISBN: 9781584876939

Paperback; 2015: 135 p. Price: $18.00

Unlocking India’s Strategic 

Potential in Central Asia

India’s impressive economic 

growth over the last two and a 

half decades has brought India’s 

role and interests to the forefront 

of global politics and statecraft. 

Importantly, it has put India into 

a comparative perspective with 

China, another aspiring Asian 

great power poised to stiffen competition for resources 

and influence worldwide. Both are resource-hungry and 

rapidly emerging powers seeking a new place and role 

in the global and regional orders. Both are also strategic 

rivals and consider their immediate neighborhood of 

Central Asia of growing strategic importance to their 

grand strategies. For now, China has outperformed India 

in Central Asia on all counts, securing the region as a 

key resource base and platform for power projection. 

Meanwhile, the author contends, the U.S. strategic 

presence in the region leaves much to be desired.

S/N # 008-000-01174-5

ISBN: 9781584877059

Paperback; 2015: 115 p. Price: $15.00

“There are no secrets to success. 

It is the result of preparation, hard 

work, learning from failure.”

– Colin Powell
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EMERGENCE OF ARAB STATES

The Quest for Military 

Cooperation in North Africa: 

Prospects and Challenges

This Letort Paper examines the 

North African security landscape 

in the aftermath of the Arab 

Spring, with particular focus on 

the security threats that prompted 

a couple of bilateral military-tomilitary cooperation arrangements 

among North African countries, and the relevance of 

these security dynamics to U.S. security and interests. It 

explains key issues and challenges impeding region-wide 

security cooperation encompassing all North African 

countries, and concludes with recommendations on 

how the United States could leverage its already existing 

military and development assistance to encourage close 

cooperation between North African countries, in order to 

foster shared goals of security and stability.

S/N # 008-020-01639-0

ISBN: 9781584877370 

Paperback; 2016: 44 p. Price: $13.00

Arab Threat Perceptions and 

the Future of the U.S. Military 

Presence in the Middle East

The Middle East is currently in 

one of its most dramatic periods 

of turbulence since the postWorld War I emergence of the 

modern state system in that 

region. The intense unrest in the 

Middle East has created new 

conflicts, but it has also brought some of the regional 

status quo powers into a greater level of cooperation to 

help address these problems. The Arab states aligned 

with the United States currently are facing a number of 

particularly serious regional policy problems and remains 

an incubator of radicalism and terrorism.

This monograph is intended to be a contribution to the 

national security debate on this important subject as our 

nation continues to grapple with a variety of problems 

associated with the future of the Middle East.

S/N # 008-000-01193-1

ISBN: 9781584877066 

Paperback; 2015: 119 p. Price: $15.00

Assessing Egyptian Public 

Support for Security 

Crackdowns in the Sinai

This monograph examines 

the terrorist groups in Egypt 

emanating from the Sinai 

and assesses the level of 

Egyptian public support for 

the government’s security 

crackdown. These terrorist 

groups have not only targeted Egyptian security 

personnel and foreign tourists in the Sinai Peninsula, but 

have attacked government installations and personnel in 

the Egyptian mainland. Because most Egyptians desire 

stability, want terrorism to end, and want their moribund 

economy to grow, and because they have few family ties 

to the Bedouin inhabitants of the Sinai, they have given 

the government wide berth to carry out a heavy-handed 

crackdown there. The author recommends enhanced 

U.S. counterterrorism assistance to the Egyptian military, 

with specialized courses for Egyptian military officers 

attending professional military education institutions in 

the United States and the training of whole Egyptian 

counterterrorism units either in the United States or in a 

friendly Arab country.

S/N # 008-000-01155-9

ISBN: 9781584876632

Paperback; 2015: 60 p. Price: $10.00
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EMERGENCE OF ARAB STATES

From Frozen Ties to Strategic 

Engagement: 

U.S.-Iranian Relationship 

in 2030

The nuclear talks between 

Iran and P5+1 ( the five United 

Nations [UN] Security Council 

nuclear powers: the United 

States, Britain, France, Russia, 

and China, plus Germany) 

following most stringent sanctions against Iran to date 

have opened new prospects for relaxation of tensions 

between Tehran and the West and for a U.S.-Iranian 

détente in the long run. The coming to power of new 

presidential administrations in both the United States 

and Iran, the additional sanctions, major geo-economic 

and geo-political trends, and U.S.-Iranian economic and 

security cooperation imperatives all contributed to these 

dynamics.

S/N # 008-000-01134-6

ISBN: 9781584876793

Paperback; 2015: 127 p. Price: $18.00

An Arab NATO in the Making: 

Middle Eastern Military 

Cooperation Since 2011

The Middle East and North 

Africa region has been one of 

the world’s most unstable areas 

since World War II, and yet, 

the nations of the region have 

failed to develop any form of 

security architecture. The war 

and its aftermath seemed to have opened a window of 

opportunity for certain Arab states to cooperate more—

but how and to what extent remain to be seen. 

This Letort Paper explains why the region has struggled 

so far to establish cooperative security, and what 

obstacles need to be overcome on the way to a system 

akin to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). 

This publication makes the case that unless they are 

addressed, every new announcement of an alliance 

will remain a pie in the sky. Just as the international 

community is yet again considering such an architecture 

- perhaps even including Iran—this idea and its 

implementation are more important than ever.

S/N # 008-000-01209-1

ISBN: 9781584877363

Paperback; 2016: 55 p. Price: $10.00

The East Mediterranean 

Triangle at Crossroads

The first section of this 

monograph exposes the 

modern emergence of the East 

Mediterranean Triangle in the 

years following World War II 

and after the birth of modern 

Israel in 1948 in particular. The 

next section focuses on the 

2010-2015 period, during which the initial logic of the 

triangle unraveled and engendered a new set of relations 

between the three countries. In the third section, the 

author looks at three arenas affected by the current 

dynamics of the triangle: the energy prospects in the 

Mediterranean, the NATO partnership policy, and the rise 

of Israel’s look-east policy. Finally, the author highlights 

why the future of this triangle matters for the U.S. 

defense community vis-à-vis the stability in the region 

and its bilateral relations with each of the three countries.

S/N # 008-000-01185-1

ISBN: 9781584877226

Paperback; 2016: 59 p. Price: $10.00
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