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  Ideas, Homework, and Message by Charles Knight, Project on Defense Alternatives, 14 January 2008. Randall "Randy" Forsberg was best known as the creator of the Nuclear Freeze idea that blossomed into a movement in the early 1980. In today's political culture she would be seen as a great messenger.
Security in the Great Transition by Charles Knight, Tellus Institute Great Transition Initiative Series, 2006 (.pdf file). This essay seeks to offer a plausible narrative of how the world moves very close to the elimination of large-scale organized violence in the seventy-eight years between 2006 and 2084. The narrative is written with the voice of a grateful historian in 2084. Whatever reality emerges seventy-eight years from now will not be constructed out of human imagination and agency alone. Much is beyond our control. But as humans we have some freedom to apply our labor and skills with spirit and purpose toward goals. The first step on this path of purpose is in the imagination.
 European Armed Forces of Tomorrow: A New Perspective (full text .html) (full text .pdf) by Lutz Unterseher. PDA Guest Publication, 20 October 2003. Models an integrated European Armed Forces. Addresses the conceptual framework, strategic orientation, key functions, posture, resources, personnel, and budget. Suggests that a viable all European force, as a complement to a foreign policy of reconciliation, is a feasible option for Europe's future.
 A New Kind of Peace Movement
WBUR interview featuring Charles Knight, 16 April 2002. Explores the prospects for a "new" kind of peace.
What Justifies Military Intervention? by Charles Knight, PDA Commentary, 27 September 2001. Examines the problems for international security associated with U.S. military intervention abroad. Includes a Postscript on the "war on terrorism" (revised 21 May 2002) and Selected Readings on the doctrines of Just War, Total War, and Strategic Bombing (revised 01 March 2002).
Kosovo and the Just War Tradition by Bjørn Møller. Paper for the Commission on Internal Conflicts at the 18th International Peace Research Association conference in Tampere, 05-09 August 2000, (printable .pdf file).
How We Ended the Cold War by John Tirman, The Nation, 01 November 1999.
Interventionism Reconsidered: Reconciling Military Action With Political Stability by Lutz Unterseher, September 1999. When troops trained, structured, and equipped for traditional peacekeeping are employed in missions such as the protection of humanitarian sanctuaries and convoys under acute threat they are not prepared for forceful measures sufficient to deal with and discourage military challenges. This paper discusses what would constitute "adequacy" of force that does not have a character or magnitude that compromises the primacy of political conflict resolution. A revised version of a paper was contributed to a 1999 workshop held at the University of Melbourne's Centre for Philosophy and Public Issues on the topic, The Ethics of Armed Intervention.
Asia Pacific Tilts to West: Limit Offensive Weaponry, Boost Arms Control by Carl Conetta and Charles Knight, commentary published in Defense News, 31 March - 06 April 1997. Examines the pattern of military spending in the Asia Pacific region since the Cold War and makes recommendations for U.S. policy. It is based on data and analysis from Post-Cold War US Military Expenditure in the Context of World Spending Trends. Building Confidence into the Security of Southern Africa
Appendix: A Confidence-Building and Affordable South African Defence in 2001 by Carl Conetta, Charles Knight, and Lutz Unterseher, PDA Briefing Report #7, November 1996. This report offers guidelines for the development of co-operative regional security and specifies a South African defence posture that would support and encourage co-operation.
Also available in print. $4.00  Defensive Restructuring in the Successor States of the former-Yugoslavia by Carl Conetta, Charles Knight, and Lutz Unterseher, PDA Briefing Report #8, March 1996. This report offers an alternative to "balancing" the arms in the former-Yugoslavia by way of transfers and military aid, instead illustrating the restructuring of the region's militaries toward greater stability with "mutual defensive superiority." This study was initiated at the request of Ambassador Jonathan Dean who serves on PDA's Research Advisory Board.
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Nonoffensive Defense and the Transformation of US Defense Posture: Is Nonoffensive Defense Compatible with Global Power? by Carl Conetta, July 1995. Paper presented at the Nonoffensive Defence in a Global Prespective Seminar in Copenhagen, 04-05 February 1995. Discusses the application of nonoffensive defense concepts to a revision of US military policy and as a design principle for global system transformation. Regarding US power, it looks specifically at the potential for reorientation of power projection forces and military assistance programs. Originally published in NOD and Conversion, no. 33, July 1995.
Defensive Military Structure in Action: Historical Examples by Carl Conetta, Charles Knight, and Lutz Unterseher, May 1994. Examines three major cases in the last sixty years where defensive preparations, structures, and tactics were of decisive importance in major military operations. Originally published in Confidence-Building Defense: A Comprehensive Approach to Security & Stability in the New Era, Study Group on Alternative Security Policy and Project on Defense Alternatives, 1994. Toward Defensive Restructuring in the Middle East by Carl Conetta, Charles Knight and Lutz Unterseher, Research Monograph #1, February 1991. Examines the character of recent military conflict in the Middle East and outlines a nonoffensive defense posture for nations in the region. It also draws the implications of such a posture for arms transfers and arms control policy. An appendix reviews the pertinent lessons of the 1990-91 Gulf War.
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UN and Peace Operations
Interventionism Reconsidered: Reconciling Military Action With Political Stability by Lutz Unterseher, September 1999. When troops trained, structured, and equipped for traditional peacekeeping are employed in missions such as the protection of humanitarian sanctuaries and convoys under acute threat they are not prepared for forceful measures sufficient to deal with and discourage military challenges. This paper discusses what would constitute "adequacy" of force that does not have a character or magnitude that compromises the primacy of political conflict resolution. A revised version of a paper was contributed to a 1999 workshop held at the University of Melbourne's Centre for Philosophy and Public Issues on the topic, The Ethics of Armed Intervention. Vital Force: A Proposal for the Overhaul of the UN Peace Operations System and for the Creation of a UN Legion by Carl Conetta and Charles Knight, PDA Research Monograph #4. October 1995. 141 pp. 11 figures. 13 tables (.pdf file 0.9 MB). Reviews the problems of contemporary peace operations, recent reform proposals, and the requirements for successful operations. Includes a detailed proposal for enhancing and reorganizing the capacities of the UN to support and direct peace operations and for establishing a UN legion of three brigades.
Also available in print. $22.00 Selections from Vital Force are also available in HTML format: Design for a 15,000-person UN Legion by Carl Conetta and Charles Knight, Briefing Report 8, October 1995. Prepared for members of the UN Military Force Study Group of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, this report presents a design for a streamlined UN Legion capable of deploying rapidly for a wide range of peace operations. It addresses operational requirements, command and unit structure, equipment, basing, and budget. It is published as Appendix: Design for a Streamlined UN Legion in Carl Kaysen and George Rathjens, Peace Operations by the United Nations: The Case for a Volunteer UN Military Force, Committee on International Security Studies, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, MA, USA, 1996.
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