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Strategic Aspects of Force Planning

Is Worry about Pakistani Nukes Serving to Keep the U.S. in Iraq? - a comment on Kagan & O'Hanlon's "The Case for Larger Ground Forces"
Charles Knight. Project on Defense Alternatives, July 2007.

Shaping U.S. Ground Forces for the Future: Getting Expansion Right
Michèle Flournoy and Tammy S. Schultz. Center for a New American Security, June 2007 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

The Problem with Expanding the U.S. Military
Gordon Adams. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 01 May 2007.

The Case for Larger Ground Forces
Frederick Kagan and Michael O'Hanlon. The Stanley Foundation, April 2007 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

A Strategic Rationale for Land Force Expansion
Frank G. Hoffman. Foreign Policy Research Institute, March 2007.

No Good Reason to Boost Army, Marine Corps End Strength
Carl Conetta. Project on Defense Alternatives Briefing Report #20, 31 January 2007.

Planning: Complex Endeavors
David S. Alberts and Richard E. Hayes. Command and Control Research Program, 2007 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

America's Uncertain Approach to Strategy and Force Planning
Anthony H. Cordesman and Paul S. Frederiksen. Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 05 July 2006 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute website.

Reforming Pentagon Strategic Decisionmaking
Christopher J. Lamb and Irving Lachow. Strategic Forum, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, July 2006 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Capabilities-Based Planning II: Identifying, Classifying and Measuring Risk in a Post 9-11 World
Presentations. Military Operations Research Society, 20 April 2006.

Strategic Planning by the Chairmen, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1990-2005
Richard Meinhart. U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute, April 2006 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Planning for and Applying Military Force:  an examination of terms
Paul K. Van Riper. U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute, March 2006 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

You Never Know(ism)
Benjamin H. Friedman and Harvey M. Sapolsky. Breakthroughs, Spring 2006 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

2007 National Defense Budget and the QDR:  Old Wine, Bigger Bottle
Winslow T. Wheeler, Center for Defense Information, 09 February 2006. Posted on the Commonwealth Institute website (PowerPoint presentation).

The Counterrevolution in Military Affairs
Ralph Peters. Weekly Standard, 06 February 2006.

Neither Shall the Sword:  Conflict in the Years Ahead
Chester W. Richards. Center for Defense Information Straus Military Reform Project, 06 February 2006.

Colonel Brilakis (USMC) frames the right question about 'capabilities-based planning'
Mark Brilakis. excerpted from "Martian Alert!", Proceedings, January 2006.

Coup D'Oeil:  Strategic Intuition in Army Planning
William Duggan. U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute, November 2005 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Budget Policy, Deficits, and Defense: A Fiscal Framework for Defense Planning
Dennis S. Ippolito. U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute, June 2005. Posted on the Commonwealth Institute website (printable .pdf file).

Landpower and the Reserve Components
John C. F. Tillson. Joint Force Quarterly, December 2004. Posted on the Commonwealth Institute website (printable .pdf file).

Capabilities-Based Planning: The Road Ahead
Alexandria, VA: Institute for Defense Analyses, 19-21 October 2004.

Force Posture and Dissuasion
M. Elaine Bunn. Strategic Insights, October 2004 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Capabilities-Based Defense Planning: Building A 21st Century Force
Workshop hosted by the Center for Contemporary Conflict, 21 September 2004.

A Unified Security Budget For the United States
Marcus Corbin and Miriam Pemberton. Task force report of the Center for Defense Information and Foreign Policy In Focus, March 2004 (.pdf file).

Building Army Capabilities
draft U.S. Army PowerPoint briefing, not classified, 28 January 2004. Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Personnel and Readiness
David S. C. Chua. prepared statement of the Under Secretary of Defense before the House Armed Services Committee, 05 November 2003. Posted on the Globalsecurity.org website.

Planning War in Peacetime
Michael C. Desch. Joint Force Quarterly, Spring 2002 (.pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.


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