Plans and Strategy
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US/NATO-Russian Strategic Stability and the War in Ukraine
Next Generation Leadership and Implications for Special Operations Forces
Preparing for Tomorrow’s Threats: Overcoming Obstacles to Organize, Adapt, and Innovate
Reimagining Defense Strategy
Sea Changes: Transforming U.S. Navy Deployment Strategy, 1775–2002
Prevailing Under the Nuclear Shadow: A New Framework for US Escalation Management
Diego Garcia: US and Allied Basing Rights in the Era of Great Power Competition
Global Health Engagement:
Overcoming Pathologies in Military Organizations
The Role of Water Stress in Instability and Conflict
The Origins and Development of A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower (2015)
Advanced Energy and U.S. National Security
American Naval Policy, Strategy, Plans and Operations in the Second Decade of the Twenty-First Century
The Future of U.S.-India Naval Relations
National Security and Assured U.S. Electrical Power
Improving U.S.-India HA/DR Coordination in the Indian Ocean
National Security and the Accelerating Risks of Climate Change
Understanding an Adversary’s Strategic and Operational Calculus: A Late Cold War Case Study with 21st Century Applicability | U.S. Views on Soviet Navy Strategy and Operations
U.S.-India Security Burden-Sharing? The Potential for Coordinated Capacity-Building in the Indian Ocean
The Israeli “Nuclear Alert” of 1973: Deterrence and Signaling in Crisis
The Long Littoral Project: Bay of Bengal A Maritime Perspective on Indo-Pacific Security
The U.S. Navy in the World (1991-2000): Context for U.S. Navy Capstone Strategies and Concepts
U.S. Navy Capstone Strategies and Concepts (1991-2000): Strategy, Policy, Concept, and Vision Documents
U.S. Navy Capstone Strategies and Concepts: Introduction, Background and Analyses
The U.S. Navy in the World (1970-2010): Context for U.S. Navy Capstone Strategies and Concepts: Volume I