Download or read book Perspectives on Defense Futures written by James L. Lacy and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since June 1984, under CNO Study Directive 5223 and subsequent guidance from the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Plans, Policy and Operations, OP-06), the Center for Naval Analyses has been examining current issues and future prospects in the Western Alliance. The aim is to better inform U.S. Navy policy initiatives and long-range planning for the European theater, by helping to define the planning environments, opportunities, and limitations the Navy may have to face in the decade ahead. While affairs of the Alliance are of prominent interest, the examination has not been confined to NATO per se. On the theory that politics among nations begin with politics and related developments within nations, the study has also considered influences on, and frames of reference for, the evolution of national defense policies in individual Alliance member countries. This research memorandum, part of a series of CNA papers on future directions of the Western Alliance, is concerned with these national policies. This particular report looks at six European allies in terms of their own defense aspirations, domestic constraints, and policy choices in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The focus is on those key factors most likely to influence the security priorities and postures of each of the six. The six are France, Britain, Germany, Italy, Greece, and Spain. Other reports in the CNA Western Alliance study series are listed in appendix A. (Author).
Download or read book Future Perspectives written by Stephen J. Kempf and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The key to guiding the future development of the Army is to devise a methodology that will allow us to develop a leap ahead or revolutionary strategy for combat development rather than the current evolutionary process. By using models we can generate plausible alternative futures with enough detail that they can be used to create future scenarios. Combat simulations can be used to develop r obust conceptual forces and doctrines in the context of the future scenarios, and allow us to analyze and refine the capabilities needed to field, flight, and sustain those forces. The essential element is understanding exactly what we want to be able to do in the future, not in predetermining how or with what technology it will be accomplished. Through an examination of the desired future capabilities we can devise matrices that can be used to lay out a structure and strategy for identifying key pervasive and enabling technologies and disciplines and their immediate military application. The matrices can also indicate where technology and disciplines should be 'pushed' or research initiated for the greatest future leverage in combat capability.
Download or read book Futures of War written by Sam J. Tangredi and published by Xlibris. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No defense planning can be effective without a rigorous assessment of the future security environment. Futures of War is designed to give readers a comprehensive view of the future international security environment and policymakers a firm foundation for future defense planning. Author Sam J. Tangredi analyzes the perspectives of federal agencies, military services, war colleges, NGOs, public committees, think-tanks, and individual experts, to fashion a consensus assessment of the future of American national security in the years 2010-2035. His approach is completely unique in the highly individualistic field of futures research. Forty studies are evaluated using representative source content analysis to develop points of agreement or divergence, which in turn are subjected to validation by almost 400 other expert sources. Dissenting sources are identified for every point of agreement in order to ensure alternative viewpoints are heard. Both (or more) sides of the points of divergence are evaluated. Additionally, wild cards and unlikely events are detailed in order to determine the need for hedging strategies and to avoid the potential hazard of group-think among defense planners. The final product is a baseline planning scenario and hedging strategies. The book also discusses the varying techniques of futures analysis and the practical limits to the use of future research in policymaking. As concerns the study of the future security environment, Futures of War proves through its consensus technique that the whole can truly be greater than the sum of its parts.
Download or read book Alternative Military Strategies For The Future written by Keith A. Dunn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, prominent civilian and military experts in defense, representing the maritime-continental coalition, military reform, and noninterventionist schools of thought, outline the changes in military strategy, policy, and force structure that they believe the United States must adopt if it is to cope successfully with threats to national security in the 1980s and 1990s. The authors analyze US interests and objectives, the changing strategic environment, and the major security threats facing the United States in the coming decades. They also discuss what they believe is the proper mix of political, economic, and military instruments for dealing with fixture threats. The alternative strategies they present are wide-ranging and comprehensive, running the gamut from a strategic withdrawal from global commitments to proposals for increasing US power projection and forcible entry capabilities in the Third World. In many ways the chapters are critical of current and past approaches to military strategy. The authors believe it is essential that strategists understand the existing critiques of current U.S. military strategy in order to make the correct policy decisions for the future.
Download or read book Perspectives On Strategic Defense written by Steven W Guerrier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together proponents and opponents of the Strategic Defense Initiative, this book includes original essays by leading experts on every aspect of the issue. The collection provides a valuable introduction to the many complex questions involved in any serious consideration of the SDI. The contributors explore such issues as the strategic impl
Download or read book Perspectives on the Future National Security Environment written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Intelligence, Emerging Threats and Capabilities and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Defense written by Stephan De Spiegeleire and published by The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies. This book was released on 2017-05-17 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artificial intelligence (AI) is on everybody’s minds these days. Most of the world’s leading companies are making massive investments in it. Governments are scrambling to catch up. Every single one of us who uses Google Search or any of the new digital assistants on our smartphones has witnessed first-hand how quickly these developments now go. Many analysts foresee truly disruptive changes in education, employment, health, knowledge generation, mobility, etc. But what will AI mean for defense and security? In a new study HCSS offers a unique perspective on this question. Most studies to date quickly jump from AI to autonomous (mostly weapon) systems. They anticipate future armed forces that mostly resemble today’s armed forces, engaging in fairly similar types of activities with a still primarily industrial-kinetic capability bundle that would increasingly be AI-augmented. The authors of this study argue that AI may have a far more transformational impact on defense and security whereby new incarnations of ‘armed force’ start doing different things in novel ways. The report sketches a much broader option space within which defense and security organizations (DSOs) may wish to invest in successive generations of AI technologies. It suggests that some of the most promising investment opportunities to start generating the sustainable security effects that our polities, societies and economies expect may lie in in the realms of prevention and resilience. Also in those areas any large-scale application of AI will have to result from a preliminary open-minded (on all sides) public debate on its legal, ethical and privacy implications. The authors submit, however, that such a debate would be more fruitful than the current heated discussions about ‘killer drones’ or robots. Finally, the study suggests that the advent of artificial super-intelligence (i.e. AI that is superior across the board to human intelligence), which many experts now put firmly within the longer-term planning horizons of our DSOs, presents us with unprecedented risks but also opportunities that we have to start to explore. The report contains an overview of the role that ‘intelligence’ - the computational part of the ability to achieve goals in the world - has played in defense and security throughout human history; a primer on AI (what it is, where it comes from and where it stands today - in both civilian and military contexts); a discussion of the broad option space for DSOs it opens up; 12 illustrative use cases across that option space; and a set of recommendations for - especially - small- and medium sized defense and security organizations.
Download or read book The Future of National Defense and the U S Military Ten Years After 9 11 written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future of national defense and the U.S. military ten years after 9/11 : perspectives of former chairmen of the Committees on Armed Services : Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, hearing held October 12, 2011.
Download or read book The Future of National Defense and the U s Military Ten Years After 9 11 written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future of national defense and the U.S. military ten years after 9/11 : perspectives from outside experts : Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, hearing held September 13, 2011.
Download or read book Perspectives on the Future National Security Environment written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perspectives on the future national security environment: technological, geopolitical, and economic trends affecting the defense strategic guidance: hearing before the Subcommittee on Intelligence, Emerging Threats and Capabilities of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, first session, hearing held February 13, 2013.
Download or read book The Future of National Defense and the U s Military Ten Years After 9 11 written by United States Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future of national defense and the U.S. military ten years after 9/11 : perspectives of former chairmen of the Committees on Armed Services : Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, hearing held October 12, 2011.
Download or read book The Future of National Defense and the United States Military Ten Years After 9 11 written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future of national defense and the United States military ten years after 9/11 : perspectives of Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey : Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, hearing held October 13, 2011.
Download or read book The Future of National Defense and the U s Military Ten Years After 9 11 written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future of national defense and the U.S. military ten years after 9/11 : perspectives from former service chiefs and vice chiefs : Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, hearing held October 4, 2011.
Download or read book The Future of American Defense written by R. Nicholas Burns and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, national security experts, academics, and business leaders discuss how to balance the aims and objectives of U.S. defense strategy with current fiscal realities.The book also offers strategies to coordinate defense spending between the executive branch and Congress.
Download or read book The Future of National Defense and the U S Military Ten Years After 9 11 written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future of national defense and the U.S. military ten years after 9/11 : perspectives from former service chiefs and vice chiefs : Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, hearing held October 4, 2011.
Download or read book Perspectives on the Future National Security Environment written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perspectives on the future national security environment: technological, geopolitical, and economic trends affecting the defense strategic guidance: hearing before the Subcommittee on Intelligence, Emerging Threats and Capabilities of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, first session, hearing held February 13, 2013.
Download or read book Handbook of Foresight Strategy and Futures Studies for Defense and Security written by Gabriele Rizzo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2025-08-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook addresses foresight, strategy, futures studies and policymaking in connection with the fundamental pillar of defense and security. It examines the state of play in the fields of foresight, futures studies, strategy setting, future-oriented policymaking, policy assessment and related areas. In addition, it describes new methodologies for scoping futures, innovative ways to employ consolidated techniques, and novel variations on some traditional futurist tools. The handbook subsequently presents case studies in the aforementioned fields that pertain to defense and security in both traditional and non-traditional senses. Lastly, it delves into the topic of foresight-enabled strategy setting, mainly in the fields of government and policy, drawing on the experiences and viewpoints of respected professionals and scholars from around the globe. Given its scope, the book offers a valuable resource for graduate-level education, and for government officials/practitioners in the fields of defense, security, and strategic planning.
