Publications Category: Books

Reviews of The Impossible Mission: The Office of Security Cooperation and the U.S. Forces Drawdown in Iraq A tremendous contribution to our understanding of the dynamics around the withdrawal of America’s final combat forces from Iraq in late 2011, and of the tragic aftermath of that withdrawal. Then-three-star General Bob Caslen oversaw U.S. forces in Iraq […]

Verification of arms control agreements has become a major topic in international relations. Although violations of such agreements properly command significant attention at the highest levels, the successful implementation of these often complex and intrusive verification regimes frequently goes unnoticed. This book documents the story of one of the key organizations in this historic struggle […]

Roughly thirty years ago, the Cold War came to an end. This multi-generational struggle, which did not always remain “cold,” came to define the security environment and, arguably, the social milieu for much of the world’s population. It certainly was prominent in the life experiences of the contributing authors to this volume, perhaps beginning with […]

National security requires a whole-of-government approach. Americans deserve to have all parts of their government working in concert to provide for their common defense and general welfare. How does a leader from one agency lead resources from other departments, nongovernmental organizations, or other nations? No one agency has the wherewithal to train and develop interagency […]

In early 2011, senior leaders from across the U.S. interagency community participated in a discussion on how to overcome the “messy” transitions in which they so often struggled.  This handbook is the result of those exchanges…