The Continuing Evolution of Iran's Military Doctrine

2005 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 559-576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven R. Ward
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Military Power ◽  
Military Doctrine ◽  
Security Environment ◽  
Proxy War

Iran's military has tried to develop concepts for warfighting suitable for deterring the United States while dealing with a complex security environment and numerous constraints on its military power. The military's key task has been to align doctrine with service capabilities. This article examines the path of Iran's doctrinal developments and highlights the advantages and problems in Iran's approach and its seeming over-reliance on missile-based deterrence and the threat of unconventional and proxy war.

Can India Balance China in Asia?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Holslag
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Military Power ◽  
Regional Power ◽  
Political Fragmentation ◽  
Strong Interest ◽  
The One

The chapter argues that India has a strong interest to balance China and that the two Asian giants will not be able grow together without conflict. However, India will not be able to balance China’s rise. The chapter argues that India remains stuck between nonalignment and nonperformance. On the one hand, it resists the prospect of a new coalition that balances China from the maritime fringes of Eurasia, especially if that coalition is led by the United States. On the other hand, it has failed to strengthen its own capabilities. Its military power lags behind China’s, its efforts to reach out to both East and Central Asia have ended in disappointment, and its economic reforms have gone nowhere. As a result of that economic underachievement, India finds itself also torn between emotional nationalism and paralyzing political fragmentation, which, in turn, will further complicate its role as a regional power.

The Cambridge History of America and the World

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
Military Power ◽  
American Empire ◽  
Global Power ◽  
Cultural Terms ◽  
The World ◽  
Fourth Volume ◽  
History Of

The fourth volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines the heights of American global power in the mid-twentieth century and how challenges from at home and abroad altered the United States and its role in the world. The second half of the twentieth century marked the pinnacle of American global power in economic, political, and cultural terms, but even as it reached such heights, the United States quickly faced new challenges to its power, originating both domestically and internationally. Highlighting cutting-edge ideas from scholars from all over the world, this volume anatomizes American power as well as the counters and alternatives to 'the American empire.' Topics include US economic and military power, American culture overseas, human rights and humanitarianism, third-world internationalism, immigration, communications technology, and the Anthropocene.

Alliances, Military Basing, and Logistics

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc C. Vielledent
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
National Security ◽  
The United States ◽  
Security Strategy ◽  
Potential Conflict ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
Fiscal Constraints ◽  
Security Environment ◽  
National Security Strategy ◽  
The World

The United States has long enjoyed an essentially unopposed ability to project power and sustain its security forces dispersed throughout the world. However, the uncertainty facing the global security environment, including tenuous alliances, fiscal constraints, and a decline in overseas basing, has increased tensions in emerging areas of potential conflict. These factors are driving change regarding the United States’ defense posture and access agreements abroad. While the preponderance of overseas capability outweighs the preponderance of U.S. forces, deterrence continues to underpin the overarching national security strategy. However, deterrence options impacted by the lack of resilience and investment in distributed logistics and sustainment are generating an additional range of variables and conditions for operators on the ground to consider in shared and contested domains.

scholarly journals RESENHA: TRANSFORMING MILITARY POWER SINCE THE COLD WAR: BRITAIN, FRANCE, AND THE UNITED STATES, 1991-2012

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (27-28) ◽  
pp. 108
Author(s):  
Marcus Vinícius Pinheiro Dutra Piffer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cold War ◽  
The United States ◽  
Military Power ◽  
The Cold War

A obra aborda os processos de mudança adotados pelos exércitos dos Estados Unidos, Reino Unido e França após a guerra fria. Os autores relacionam a conjuntura reinante com os imperativos político-estratégicos de cada um dos países citados e como esses imperativos se tornaram processos de mudança no poder militar.Cada um dos países foi tratado em um capítulo específico, tratando da visão de futuro do respectivo exército, dos processos e projetos visualizados para essa transformação e os motivos de sucesso ou fracasso das iniciativas.Ao concluir, os autores ressaltam a relevância dos aspectos culturais e como esses aspectos moldaram ou limitaram os processos de mudança, de modo que processos com objetivos semelhantes obtiveram resultados muito diferentes. Destaca-se o fato de que o Exército Brasileiro atravessa um processo de transformação conceitualmente semelhante, aumentando a relevância da obra resenhada.

India’s Proxy War in Sri Lanka

Proxy War ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 182-200
Author(s):  
Tyrone L. Groh
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Proxy War ◽  
The Government ◽  
War Policy

This chapter presents a case study for how India initially supported the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) covertly to protect ethnic Tamils in Sri Lanka and then later had to overtly intervene to stop LTTE’s operations during efforts to broker peace. For the duration of the conflict, India’s support remained covert and plausibly deniable. Inside Sri Lanka, the character of the conflict was almost exclusively ethnic and involved the government in Colombo trying to prevent the emergence of an independent Tamil state. Internationally, the United States, the Soviet Union, and most other global powers, for the most part, remained sidelined. Domestically, India’s government had to balance its foreign policy with concerns about its sympathetic Tamil population and the threat of several different secessionist movements inside its own borders. The India-LTTE case reflects history’s most costly proxy war policy.

A LIBERAL VISION OF SECURITY – AN ATTEMPT TO SYSTEMATIZE CONCEPTIONS

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (31) ◽  
pp. 225-249
Author(s):  
Andrzej Urbanek
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Security ◽  
Political Liberalism ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Security Environment ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Liberal Vision

In the article, its author attempted to systematize various concepts and approaches to the issue of security by representatives of political liberalism. Political liberalism now sets the main directions of thinking about security in Europe and the United States. Expanding the subjective scope of security, it undoubtedly contributed to the development of various security concepts in which not only the state but other entities become important actors in the international security environment. The article presents the main assumptions of a liberal vision of security, the approach to security by representatives of traditional liberalism and current trends.

Military Networks at the Extremes of Empire: The Che of Chile and the Puebloans of the United States

Ethnohistory ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 643-664
Author(s):  
Jacob J. Sauer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
Spanish Empire ◽  
Military Power ◽  
Southern Chile ◽  
Power Networks ◽  
Sociopolitical Complexity ◽  
Military Networks ◽  
The Military

Abstract At the northern and southern ends of the Spanish “Empire,” two cultures of similar sociopolitical complexity violently removed Spanish invaders from their ancestral territory. The Che of southern Chile militarily engaged the Spanish in the mid-sixteenth century and eventually forced the Spanish to abandon their colonization attempts. The Puebloans of the southwestern United States also forced the Spanish to flee from Puebloan territory in 1680, but by 1696, Puebloan territories returned to Spanish hegemony. This article compares some of the reasons why the Che maintained independence for more than 350 years while Puebloan independence lasted 16, examining the military power networks of the Che and Puebloans and the timing of resistance to Spanish incursion. These comparisons highlight some of the diverse reactions of foreign groups and how connections between peoples affect how individuals and communities react to outside influences.

Space programme will strengthen Japan's military power

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North Korea ◽  
The United States ◽  
Arms Race ◽  
Military Power ◽  
Space Systems ◽  
Content Type ◽  
National Space

Subject Japan's military space programme. Significance Japan's national space systems, particularly when linked to those of the United States, make it one of the pre-eminent military space powers regionally, if not globally. Impacts Japan's militarisation of space indicates a determination to face down threats from North Korea and China. Augmentation of Japanese space power should enhance US deterrence against China. Japan's attempt to match China's space capabilities risks an arms race in yet another dimension.

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