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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"unconventional warfare"”.
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Strategic Consequences: How Executive and Organizational Decision-Making Impacts the Outcome of Unconventional Warfare
… and discrete special operations mission of Unconventional Warfare (UW) as a platform, this dissertation looks beyond the traditional explanations to expand our understanding of the role that executive level organizations play in achieving success or failure.</p> <p>The central research …
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The good, the bad, and the ugly: selecting and vetting indigenous leaders
… in a complex environment during irregular and unconventional warfare is a complicated endeavor, affected by countless factors. Selecting, vetting, and influencing indigenous leaders in foreign countries has been a key task of U.S. Special Operations Forces since its inception, but to date …
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By Any Means Necessary: The Quandary the CIA Now Faces In Light of Employing Enhanced Interrogation Methods to Combat the War on Terror
… jolted international humanitarians. With modern warfare evolving towards unconventional warfare, the notion of interrogation has become more controversial and linked hand-in-hand with torture methods. This study is not trying to make a case for torture, but instead seeks to provide qualitative …
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Cost estimation for surface Navy investment in Arctic-capable platform to maintain national security interests
… vessels with a more robust air, sub-surface, and unconventional warfare capability in the future to make the U.S. a more prepared Arctic nation.
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Do psychological operations benefit from the use of host nation media?
… as the solution set for all crises to include unconventional warfare (UW), the sheer lack of numbers in both PSYOP personnel and equipment, and a recent upsurge of negativity from the world media of U.S. PSYOP due to the utilization of host nation media assets that portrays the U.S. as having a …
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The Myth of the Green Berets: How One Group of Soldiers Helped Sell a Nation on the Virtue of War
… language skills, martial prowess, and mastery of unconventional warfare. Their ability to live and work with local populations made them the favored–and famed–warrior diplomats of President John F. Kennedy’s New Frontier. During the 1960s, the Green Berets were featured in best-selling novels, a …
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Counterinsurgency Colonels: The Role of the Practitioner In the Evolution of Modern Counterinsurgency
… reform and institutionalization of this means of warfare. Throughout the evolution of modern counterinsurgency a select group of elite practitioners have surfaced in each of the unconventional conflicts. These elite practitioners have mastered the ability to adapt to the complex environment, …
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Special Operations Forces: From Reaction to Preemption
… and winning ‘hearts and minds’ through Unconventional Warfare (UW) and Foreign Internal Defense (FID), and the desire to conduct aggressive Direct Action (DA) missions. Aggressive use of SOF is referred to as black or high-end operations while missions centered on foreign populations are …
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Experimental Evaluation of JP-8-Based Fire Resistant Fuels
… the threat of vehicle fuel fires resulting from unconventional warfare encountered in the Middle East. Fire Resistant Fuels are based upon JP-8, which is now the primary fuel for the Army ground services. The goal of FRF development is to reduce susceptibility to ignition at standard storage …
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David versus Goliath: The Power of Weakness in Asymmetric Warfare—Lessons from History
… options while pursuing their national interests. Unconventional warfare, and its subsets of terrorism and insurgency, should—given these circumstances, end in VNA failure. Sometimes, however, VNAs find success. By comparing the literature on historical and current case studies, I propose that a …
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Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Peru, 1962-1966
Insurgency and counterinsurgency in the developing world were crucial aspects of the global Cold War. Economic, political, religious, and social factors created tensions at the international, national, and local levels that drove conflict. Scholars can gain an increased understanding of these …
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Understanding Russian Hybrid Warfare: A Comparative Case Study Analysis of Soviet Active Measures and Russian New Generation Warfare
Russian Hybrid Warfare is a popular Western term for contemporary Kremlin operations that directly target adversaries without conventional force. Often described as the mistaken "Gerasimov Doctrine" or "New Generation Warfare," Russian Hybrid Warfare operations utilize unconventional tactics to …