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Institutionalizing the New Maritime Strategy: The Forrestal Lessons, 1945-47, An Annotated Briefing
April 1, 1993
This briefing concerns institutionalizing strategic change in the Navy. It focuses on the lessons of the 1945-47 era under Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal.
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EUROPEAN PERCEPTIONS AND EAST-WEST COMPETITION
August 1, 1977

This paper was written for a panel dealing with the systematic assessment of Soviet-American competition. It focuses upon one psychological dimension of this competition, perceptions of Western European leaders concerning the state of East-West tension in Europe. Its goals are to show, in a systematic manner, the course taken by these perceptions in France, the United Kingdom, and the Federal Republic of Germany, and to relate these perceptions to other elements in the system of East-West competition that has existed since WW II.

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An Analysis of Recent Conflicts
August 1, 1974
Three hundred eighty conflicts initiated during the years 1946-1964 are analysed. The analysis of recent conflicts has three major advantages: (1) to confirm or counter assumptions about limited warfare situations in the period 1946-1964 to provide greater validity in predicting such situations in the future; (2) to identify the major variables involved in the various kinds of recent conflicts so that these variables will be used appropriately in the analysis of future conflicts of a similar type; and (3) to provide a data base from which important implications about the nature of recent conflicts may be derived so that effective processes of deterrence and control may be perceived for future application.
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