Featured Article: When Diplomacy Fails…

● ehill ● February 26, 2020 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: When Diplomacy Fails: Consent, Risk and Modern Warfare by M. Shane Riza I sat on troop seats in the back of a KC-135 Stratotanker crossing the Atlantic the week before Christmas 1998. My feet were experiencing negative temperatures, while my head felt like it was in the tropics.… Read More

Featured Article: Cognitive Dissonance and Religion in Military Stability Operations

● ehill ● May 9, 2017 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: Cognitive Dissonance and Religion in Military Stability Operations by William B. Scott Cognitive dissonance is a psychological theory about how the mind resolves conflicting beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors held simultaneously. For many Americans, it is important to “emphasize the Christian religion,” while maintaining a “separation between Church and… Read More

Featured Article: Evaluation of Current Risk Assessment Models for Genocide and Mass Atrocity

● ehill ● April 18, 2017 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: Evaluation of Current Risk Assessment Models for Genocide and Mass Atrocity by Kathryn Gillum Genocide and other atrocity crimes (war crimes and crimes against humanity) are not only a curse to those directly involved, but also a burden on all of humanity. Under the United Nations’ (UN) 2005… Read More

Featured Article: Moral Courage and Intelligent Disobedience

● ehill ● April 11, 2017 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: Moral Courage and Intelligent Disobedience by Ted Thomas and Ira Chaleff The military needs men and women who have courage–the physical courage to go into battle, to overcome fear in the face of bodily injury or death, mental pain, and lifelong disabilities. Militaries run on physical courage. Without… Read More

Featured Article: Civil Affairs History and Doctrine: From Military Government to Interagency Partner

● ehill ● April 4, 2017 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: Civil Affairs History and Doctrine: From Military Government to Interagency Partner by Thomas R. Geisinger The 2014 Army Operating Concept (AOC), “Win in a Complex World,” stresses the need for American military power to prevent conflict and shape future wars as much as win them.1 To do this,… Read More

Featured Article: The Tumultuous Recent History of U.S. Stabilization and Reconstruction Efforts

● ehill ● March 28, 2017 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: The Tumultuous Recent History of U.S. Stabilization and Reconstruction Efforts: The Way Ahead? by David A. Anderson The U.S. has been directly involved in some level of foreign stabilization and reconstruction effort since the end of World War II (WWII): from the occupation and reconstruction of post-WWII Japan/Germany,… Read More

Featured Article: The Reality of the So-Called U.S. Pivot to Asia

● ehill ● October 18, 2016 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: The Reality of the So-Called U.S. Pivot to Asia by Joshua Parker and David A. Anderson Shortly after President Obama took office in 2009, it became clear he wanted to shift U.S. foreign policy focus away from the Middle East to Asia. His immediate goal was withdrawing U.S.… Read More

IAS-005 (January 2016) Foreign Aid and Party Institutionalization in Sub-Saharan Africa

● ehill ● January 5, 2016 ● InterAgency Study ● 1 Comment

Government, non-government, and military entities have all been involved in providing foreign aid for quite some time, but despite the emphasis that states and international organizations and institutions place on the utility of foreign aid, there is significant debate about its benefits. The debate centers on the potentially deleterious or… Read More

IAE 15-02W U.S. Military Sustainment Assistance Following North Korean Regime Collapse

● ehill ● March 24, 2015 ● InterAgency Essays (IAE) ● No Comments

InterAgency Essay 15-02W, March 2015 by Edward K. Woo This essay examines the combined response efforts that would be required of the U.S. military, U.S. government, nongovernmental organizations, and international partners in the event of regime collapse in North Korea. The author focuses on the humanitarian and stabilization aspects of… Read More

IAP 11W (November 2013) Evolving a Hamstrung and Broken System

● ehill ● November 19, 2013 ● InterAgency Papers (IAP) ● No Comments

The author of this paper argues there is a need for an evolution in interagency training and education to efficiently and effectively enable collaborative teams to achieve strategic objectives in complex humanitarian assistance/disaster response (HA/DR) operations overseas...

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