Joint Force Quarterly

The Commission believes that unless the world community acts decisively and with great urgency, it is more likely than not that a weapon of mass destruction will be used in a terrorist attack somewhere in the world by the end of 2013. [ILLUSTRATION...

Edited by Gabriel B. Collins, Andrew S. Erickson, Lyle J. Goldstein, and William S. Murray Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2008 485 pp. $47.95 ISBN: 978-1-59114-330-7 These are exciting times for China watchers. The People's Liberation...

By Sean M. Maloney Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2009 384 pp. $34.95 ISBN: 978-159114-508-0 Sean M. Maloney is an established military historian teaching at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario. The second of a planned three-book...

Energy is the lifeblood of modern societies and a pillar of America's prowess and prosperity. Yet energy is also a major source of global instability, conflict, pollution, and risk. Many of the gravest threats to national security are intimately intertwined...

Since the end of the Cold War, America's conventional military might has been predicated on the ability to control the air. This style of warfare produced stunning results in Operation Desert Storm in 1991 and has been successful in subsequent military...

Edited by Paul G. Gillespie and Grant T. Weller Chicago: Imprint Publications, 2008 235 pp. $29.95 ISBN: 978-1-879176-45-4 This book comes at an interesting time in the history of U.S. space activity. Its publication is within 1 year of...

The Joint Doctrine Development Community (JDDC) will host the 45th Joint Doctrine Planning Conference (JDPC) May 12-13, 2010, in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area. This conference not only synchronizes the JDDC, but also launches some of the groundbreaking...

Published for the Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction. WMD Center Case Study 2 U.S. Withdrawal from the Antiballistic Missile Treaty Lynn F. Rusten traces the 10-month period between President George W. Bush's proclamation...

The accomplishment of a post-Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) I nuclear arms reduction agreement by Russia and the United States calls to mind a Chinese character that stands for both opportunity and danger. Post-START success opens the door...

I wouldn't be the person I am today, I wouldn't be where I am now, and I may not even have been here if it wasn't for the accident. --Rick Allen, drummer for Def Leppard Joint Force Quarterly has devoted a great deal of ink to strategy and strategists...

While measuring a state's power is an art in and of itself, it is possible to do a first-order assessment of the relative magnitude of power among a group of states. Kenneth Waltz, the doyen of structural realism, has suggested that states can be assessed...

Edited by Williamson Murray and Jim Lacey New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009 368 pp. $90 ISBN: 978-0-5215-1719-5 Shortly after the United States launched Operation Enduring Freedom to change the Taliban regime in Kabul in response...

Joint force commanders (JFCs) have routinely exercised authority to reorganize and break apart attached forces under the guise of operational control (OPCON). This exercise has become common practice because of misinterpretations of joint doctrine....

The substantial increase in the employment of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and other arenas has intensified the debate about the moral and legal nature of the targeted killing of people who are said to be civilians. As...