Preventing State Failure

National Strategy Forum Review – Winter 2001 Issue PREVENTING STATE FAILURE—A STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE…SOLDIERS? No matter how much we aficionados might wish it, Presidential campaigns seldom admit real debate on issues of substance in foreign policy. Among...

The Postmodern Military—Armed Forces After the Cold War

Book review for USNI Proceedings—August 2000 Edited by Charles C. Moskos, John Allen Williams, and David R. Segal Oxford University Press, 2000 Reviewed by Captain Larry Seaquist, USN (Ret.) Finally, a book by authors with something on their minds other than...

Community War

An edited version was originally published in the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, August 2000 War left the battlefield. While many militaries busied themselves with the so-called “revolution in military affairs,” war put on new clothes and moved away. As...

PeaceGames & Practical Conflict Prevention

This article sketches the origins of the program, describes the PeaceGames, and invites interested people and organizations to participate in this pioneering work. 1999 The Strategy Group, working in harness with UNESCO’s “Venice Process”, designs...

Making American Naval Strategy

The Oxford Companion to American Military History, Oxford University Press, 1999 An essay on the history of U.S. naval strategy in The Oxford Companion to American Military History, Oxford University Press, 1999 On the surface, Alfred T. Mahan embodies American...

Defense Intelligence in a Disorderly World

This article was invited by the editors to be the keynote essay in the inaugural issue of a brand new professional journal published by the Defense Intelligence College Foundation. At that time I had been working for several years as the assistant to the Deputy Under...