Access PDA Publications 1991-2007
All online PDA publications in reverse chronological order
Confronting Iran: Critical perspectives on the current crisis, its origins, and implications A PDA Compilation, updated 10 May 2008.
Cul de Sac: 9/11 and the Paradox of American Power PDA Research Monograph #13, 05 February 2008. PDF version.
A Prisoner to Primacy PDA Briefing Memo #43, 05 February 2008. PDF version.
Iraq War Withdrawal and Exit Plans A PDA Compilation, updated 02 February 2008.
Neoliberal & Neoconservative Security Policy: Views, Criticism, Alternatives A PDA Compilation, updated 02 February 2008.
The Evolving India-U.S. Strategic Relationship A PDA compilation, updated 02 February 2008.
A Note on the State of Israel PDA Guest Publication, November 2007. Lutz Unterseher (SAS).
Insurgent Iraq: Links to full-text online articles and reports about the Iraqi insurgency A PDA compilation, updated 07 February 2008.
Toward a Sustainable US Defense Posture: An Option to save $60+ Billion Over the Next Five Years PDA Briefing Memo #42, 02 August 2007. PDF version.
Congressional withdrawal plans, permanent bases in Iraq, increase in ground troops. by Bipasha Ray, Defense Analysis Bulletin #4, 01 May 2007
America speaks out: Is the United States spending too much on defense? PDA Briefing Memo #41, 26 March 2007. PDF version.
US aid to Somalia, counterterrorism in Horn of Africa, does terrorism work? by Bipasha Ray, Defense Analysis Bulletin #3, 07 March 2007
Experts give poor grades to expected defense budget proposal by Bipasha Ray, Defense Analysis Bulletin #2, 01 February 2007.
No good reason to boost Army, Marine Corps end strength PDA Briefing Report #20, 31 January 2007. PDF version.
US aid to Afghanistan, Taliban in government, Afghan casualties, permanent bases in the Mideast by Bipasha Ray, Defense Analysis Bulletin #1, 24 January 2007
Resolving Iraq: Progress depends on a short timeline for US troop withdrawal PDA Briefing Memo #40, 18 January 2007. PDF version
More troops for Iraq? Time to just say "No" PDA Briefing Memo #39, 09 January 2007. PDF version
War & Consequences: Global Terrorism has Increased Since 9/11 Attacks PDA Briefing Memo #38, 25 September 2006.PDF version.
Losing Hearts and Minds: World Public Opinion and post-9/11 US Security Policy PDA Briefing Memo #37, 14 September 2006.PDF version.
Fighting on Borrowed Time: The Effect on US Military Readiness of America's post-9/11 Wars PDA Briefing Report #19, 11 September 2006.PDF version.
Pyrrhus on the Potomac: How America's Post-9/11 Wars Have Undermined US National Security PDA Briefing Report #18, 05 September 2006.PDF version.
Mechanized Tube Artillery as an Integral Element of Expeditionary Forces PDA Guest Publication, May 2006. Lutz Unterseher (SAS). PDF version.
We Can See Clearly Now: The Limits of Foresight in the pre-World War II Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) PDA Research Monograph #12, 02 March 2006. PDF version.
QDR 2006: Do The Forces Match the Missions? DOD Gives Little Reason to Believe PDA Briefing Memo #36, 10 February 2006. PDF version.
Masque of Democracy: Iraqi Election System Still Disfavors Sunni Arabs, Favors Kurds PDA Briefing Memo #35, 10 December 2005. PDF version.
Arms Control in an Age of Strategic and Military Revolution PDA Research Monograph #11, 15 November 2005. PDF version.
400 Days and Out: A Strategy for Resolving the Iraq Impasse. PDA Briefing Memo #34, 19 July 2005. (Print: $5.00)
The Iraqi Insurgency & Iraq Security Force Development: Selected Bibliography
Vicious Circle: The Dynamics of Occupation and Resistance in Iraq, Part One. Patterns of Popular Discontent. PDA Research Monograph #10, 28 May 2005. PDF version.
Should We Stay or Should We Go? The US Debate on Exiting Iraq. PDA Briefing Memo #33, 07 March 2005.
What do Iraqis want? Iraqi attitudes on the occupation, US withdrawal, Iraqi governments, and quality of life. Summary of data from 2004 and 2005 Iraqi public opinion polls., 01 February 2005. PDF version.
The Iraqi election "bait and switch": faulty poll will not bring peace or US withdrawal . PDA Briefing Report #17, January 2005. PDF version.
Is the Iraq war sapping America's military power? Cautionary data and perspectives PDA Briefing Memo #32, 22 October 2004.
Charts, Reference Material:
Radical Departure: Toward A Practical Peace in Iraq . PDA Briefing Report #16, July 2004. PDF version.
Disappearing the Dead: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Idea of a "New Warfare". PDA Research Monograph #9, 18 February 2004. PDF version.
Saving General Shinseki: on the future of wheeled armor. PDA Guest Publication, February 2004. Lutz Unterseher (SAS). PDF version.
Selected Major Terrorist Incidents Worldwide since the conclusion of Operation Enduring Freedom. PDA Briefing Memo #31, 07 January 2004.
The New Occupation: How Preventive War is Wrecking the Military. Security Policy Working Group Commentary, 04 January 2004.
The Wages of War: Iraqi Combatant and Noncombatant Fatalities in the 2003 Conflict. PDA Research Monograph #8, 20 October 2003. PDF version.
European Armed Forces of Tomorrow: A New Perspective. PDA Guest Publication, 20 October 2003. Lutz Unterseher (SAS).
Catastrophic Interdiction: Air Power and the Collapse of the Iraqi Field Army in the 2003 War. PDA Briefing Memo #30, 26 September 2003. PDF version.
Trends in the Incidence of International Terror Attacks on Americans After the Cold War. PDA Briefing Memo #29, 26 June 2003. PDF version.
Civilian Casualties in the 2003 Iraq War: A Compendium of Accounts and Reports. 21 May 2003. PDF version.
Burning Down the House: How the Iraq War Will Affect the International System. PDA Briefing Report #15, 06 May 2003. PDF version.
What Colin Powell Showed Us: The End of Arms Control and the Normalization of War. PDA Briefing Report #14, 05 May 2003. PDF version.
Reconstructing Iraq: Costs and Possible Income Sources. PDA Briefing Memo #28, 25 April 2003. PDF version.
Disarming Iraq: What Did the UN Missions Accomplish? PDA Briefing Memo #27, 25 April 2003. PDF version.
9/11 and the Meanings of Military Transformation. PDA, 6 February 2003.
Inspecting Iraq: A Record of the First 40 Days. 4 January 2003.
Essential Elements Missing in the National Security Strategy of 2002. PDA Commentary, November 2002.
The "New Warfare" and the New American Calculus of War. PDA Briefing Memo #26, 30 September 2002.
Terrorism, World Order, and Cooperative Security: A research and policy development agenda. PDA Briefing Memo #24, 9 September 2002. (Print: $5.00)
First Strike Guidelines: the case of Iraq. PDA Briefing Memo #25, 16 September 2002. PDF version.
President Bush Raises the Stakes in Iraq. PDA Commentary, 03 July 2002. PDF version.
The Pentagon's New Budget, New Strategy, and New War. PDA Briefing Report #12, 25 June 2002.
Dislocating Alcyoneus: How to combat al-Qaeda and the new terrorism. PDA Briefing Memo #23, 25 June 2002.
German Defense Spending: Insufficient Adjustment. PDA Guest Publication, February 2002. Lutz Unterseher (SAS).
Strange Victory: A critical appraisal of Operation Enduring Freedom and the Afghanistan war. PDA Research Monograph #6, 30 January 2002. PDF version.
Operation Enduring Freedom: Why a Higher Rate of Civilian Bombing Casualties? PDA Briefing Report #13, 18 January 2002.
Bush Administration Policy Toward Europe: Continuity and Change. PDA, January 2002. PDF version.
Cooperative Action Against Terrorism. PDA Commentary, October 2001.
German Defense Planning: In a Crucial Phase (October 2001). Lutz Unterseher (SAS).
Beyond bin Laden: The Temptations of a Wider War by Carl Conetta, PDA Briefing Memo #22, 28 September 2001.
What Justifies Military Intervention? PDA Commentary, 27 September 2001.
Fear Itself: Hazards of Massive Retaliation by Neta C. Crawford, PDA Guest Commentary, 14 September 2001.
Rotocraft for War: Descending on a Military Dilemma by Dr. Lutz Unterseher, PDA Briefing Memo #19, May 2001.
Disengaged Warfare: Should we make a virtue of the Kosovo way of war? PDA Briefing Memo #21, May 2001.
A New US Military Strategy? Issues and Options. PDA Briefing Memo #20, May 2001.
Concepts for Transformation from Breaking the Phalanx. PDA Guest Publication, 19 February 2001. Col. Douglas A. Macgregor.
The Paradoxes of post-Cold War US Defense Policy: An Agenda for the 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review. PDA Briefing Memo #18, 5 February 2001.
Bigger Budgets Will Not Cure the Pentagon's Ills by Carl Conetta and Charles Knight, op-ed in the Boston Globe, 08 October 2000.
Can the United States Spend Less on Defense? -- Toward a Smaller, More Efficient, and More Relevant US Military. PDA Briefing Memo #17, October 2000.
The Armed Forces: "used too much and supported too little"? by Charles Knight, PDA Commentary, September 2000.
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.
Wheels or Tracks? On the "Lightness" of Military Expeditions. PDA Briefing Memo #16, July 2000. Lutz Unterseher (SAS).
U.S. Military-Strategic Ambitions -- Expanding to Fill the post-Soviet Vacuum by Charles Knight, PDA Commentary, adapted from a panel presentation at the Council on Foreign Relations, N.Y.C, 14 June 2000.
Europe's Armed Forces at the Millennium: A Case Study of Change in France, the United Kingdom, and Germany. PDA Briefing Report #11, December, 1999.
Evaluating the Post-Cold War Policy of the United States by Ambassador Jonathan Dean, Adviser on International Security Issues, Union of Concerned Scientists, presentation to the PDA symposium Ten Years After the Wall:Trends in post-Cold War U.S. Security Policy held at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 11 November 1999 (.pdf file).
Interventionism Reconsidered: Reconciling Military Action With Political Stability. PDA Guest Publication, September 1999. Lutz Unterseher (SAS).
Slovenian Security in the European Perspective by Anton Grizold and Ljubica Jelusic, September 1999.
The Coming Transformation of the Muslim World by Dale F. Eickelman, July 1999. by permission of the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI), Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Alleged 'Carrier Gap' is Out to Sea by Carl Conetta and Charles Knight, PDA Briefing Memo #15, 30 April 1999.
The Readiness Crisis of the US Air Force: A Review and Diagnosis. PDA Briefing Report #10, 22 April 1999.
Military Strategy Under Review by Carl Conetta and Charles Knight, Foreign Policy In Focus, Volume 4, Number 3, January 1999.
Nato Expansion: Costs and Implications A presentation by Carl Conetta to the International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility, Cambridge, MA, USA, 23 July 1998.
Defense Sufficiency and Cooperation: A US Military Posture for the post-Cold War Era by Carl Conetta and Charles Knight, Project on Defense Alternatives, 01 March 1998 (executive summary also available.)
Dueling with Uncertainty: the New Logic of American Military Planning by Carl Conetta and Charles Knight, February 1998.
Wanting Leadership: Public Opinion on Defense Spending by Carl Conetta and Charles Knight, January 1998.
Future Tense -- An Assessment of the Report of the National Defense Panel by Carl Conetta, 05 December 1997.
From the QDR to the NDP -- A Summary of QDR Policy Issues Since May 1997 and the Likely Content of the NDP Report from Reviewing Defense, Global Beat Working Paper #32, the Center for War, Peace, and the News Media and the Project on Defense Alternatives, 14 November 1997.
America's New Deal With Europe: NATO Primacy and Double Expansion. October 1997.
Backwards Into the Future: How the Quadrennial Defense Review Prepares America for the Wrong Century by Carl Conetta, June 1997.
General Trainor's Korean War Scenario is Only Half the Story by Charles Knight, PDA Commentary, 04 June 1997.
US Defense Posture in Global Context: a framework for evaluating the Quadrennial Defense Review by Carl Conetta and Charles Knight, The Project on Defense Alternatives, May 1997.
Asia Pacific Tilts to West: Limit Offensive Weaponry, Boost Arms Control by Carl Conetta and Charles Knight, op-ed published in Defense News, 31 March - 06 April 1997.
Framework for Constructing a "New Era" Alternative to the Bottom-Up Review by Carl Conetta and Charles Knight, February 1997.
Post-Cold War US Military Expenditure in the Context of World Spending Trends by Carl Conetta and Charles Knight, PDA Briefing Memo #10, January 1997. (executive summary available ).
Building Confidence into the Security of Southern Africa by Carl Conetta, Charles Knight, and Lutz Unterseher, PDA Briefing Report #7, November 1996. With Appendix: A Confidence-Building and Affordable South African Defence in 2001
On the Threshold of Change: South African Defence Review reflects the continuing struggle to define a military policy for the new era. October 1996.
Key Issues in Current South African Defense Planning by Charles Knight and Carl Conetta, PDA Briefing Memo #9, July 1996.
Defensive Restructuring in the Successor States of the former-Yugoslavia by Carl Conetta, Charles Knight, and Lutz Unterseher, PDA Briefing Report #8, March 1996.
Vital Force: A Proposal for the Overhaul of the UN Peace Operations System and for the Creation of a UN Legion. PDA Research Monograph #4, October 1995. PDF version.
Design for a 15,000-person UN Legion by Carl Conetta and Charles Knight, Briefing Report 8, October 1995.
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.
Low Flying and Security Posture: Examining NATO Military Low-Flying and its Future Prospects by Alan Bloomgarden, Project Ploughshares Working Paper 94-2, December 1994.
Maneuver Warfare Principles and Terms by Carl Conetta, May 1994.
Defensive Military Structure in Action: Historical Examples by Carl Conetta, Charles Knight, and Lutz Unterseher, May 1994.
Build-Down: US Armed Forces Retrenchment in the Context of Modernization by Carl Conetta, Charles Knight and Alan Bloomgarden, May 1994.
Mismatch: The "Bottom Up Review" and America's Security Requirements in the New Era written testimony by Carl Conetta for the Committee on Armed Services, U.S. House of Representatives, 10 March 1994.
Free Reign for the Sole Superpower? by Carl Conetta, Charles Knight, and Robert Leavitt, The Boston Review, Vol.8 No.6, Dec/Jan 1993-94.
Rand's 'New Calculus' and the Impasse of US Defense Restructuring by Carl Conetta and Charles Knight, PDA Briefing Report #4, August 1993.
Reflections on Information War, Casualty Aversion, and Military Research & Development after the Gulf War and the Demise of the Soviet Union by Charles Knight, Lutz Unterseher, and Carl Conetta, excerpted from "Military Research and Development after the Second Gulf War" in Smit, Grin, and Veronkov, Military Technological Innovation and Stability in a Changing World, VU University Press, Amsterdam, 1992. Internet publication by PDA, March, 2000.
Toward Defensive Restructuring in the Middle East by Carl Conetta, Charles Knight and Lutz Unterseher, Research Monograph #1, February 1991.
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