To Be, or Not to Be ... An Empire
Gary J. Schmitt. American Enterprise Institute, June 2007 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

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

Jus Ad Bellum After 9/11: A State of the Art Report
Mark Rigstad. The International Political Theory Beacon, June 2007.

European Views of Preemption in U.S. National Security Strategy
Gary L. Guertner. Parameters, Summer 2007 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Strategic Competition and Resistance in the 21st Century: Irregular, Catastrophic, Traditional, and Hybrid Challenges in Context
LTC Nathan P. Freier. U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute, 24 May 2007.

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

The U.S. Military's Growing Role in Foreign Policy
Gordon Adams. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 02 April 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.

Budgeting for Empire: Ambitions Outweigh Strategy
David Isenberg. Foreign Policy in Focus, 28 March 2007.

Legacy Agenda, Part II: The Bush Doctrine and the Long War
Thomas Donnelly and Colin Monaghan. American Enterprise Institute, 06 March 2007.

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

The New New World Order
Daniel W. Drezner. Foreign Affairs, March/April 2007.

Manifest Destiny: A New Direction for America
William Pfaff. The New York Review of Books, 15 February 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.

Extremism, Terror and the Future of Conflict
Michael J. Mazarr. Policy Review, 09 September 2006. Posted on the Open Sources Info website.

An American Foreign Policy That Both Realists and Idealists Should Fall in Love With
Robert Wright. The New York Times, 16 July 2006.

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.

The End of the Bush Revolution
Philip H. Gordon. Foreign Affairs, July/August 2006 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

U.S. Army War College Guide to National Security Policy and Strategy
J. Boone Bartholomees, Jr. U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute, June 2006 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

The Remaking of a Unipolar World
Robert Jervis. The Washington Quarterly, Summer 2006 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Addicted to Oil: Strategic Implications of American Oil Policy
Thomas D. Kraemer. U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute, May 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.

On 'Preventive War,' Kissinger Becomes Bush's 'Useful Idiot'
Walter C. Uhler. dissidentvoice.org, 14 April 2006.

The Rules On Preventive Force: Nuclear Weapons, Terrorism Require Rethinking a Time-Honored Approach
Henry A. Kissinger. Washington Post, 09 April 2006. Posted on the Washington News Review Website.

'The Pentagon's Revenge' or Strategic Transformation: The Bush Administration's New Security Strategy
Chuck Freilich. Strategic Assessment, Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Tel Aviv University, 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.

President Bush's National Security Strategy: Is the U.S. Meeting its Global Challenges?
Panel with Ivo Daalder, Richard Falkenrath, Michael O'Hanlon and Martin Indyk. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 21 March 2006 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

The Politics of Pacifism Meets FBI Monitoring
James Carroll. Boston Globe, 20 March 2006. Posted on the CommonDreams Website.

Preventive War Grasps at Straws
Les Payne. Newsday, 19 March 2006.

Shaping the Choices of Countries at Strategic Cross-roads
Adam Ward. London, UK: International Institute for Strategic Studies, 16 March 2006 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Changing the Rules: The United States, International Law and the War on Terror
Jakub Rzepka. March 2006 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Transformation to What and Against Whom? The United States Navy and the 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review
James A. Russell. World Defence Systems, Centre for Defence Studies, Kings College, University of London, March 2006 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

2006 Quadrennial Defense Review: Shifting Emphasis
Institute of Land Warfare, U.S. Army, March 2006 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Irregular Enemies and the Essence of Strategy:  Can the American Way of War Adapt?
Colin S. Gray. U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute, March 2006 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

The Practicality of Pre-emption in U.S. Foreign Policy
Adam Lichtenheld. University of Wisconsin-Madison Undergraduate Journal of Politics, Spring 2006. (Note: will open as a Word document).

A Balanced Force Structure to Achieve a Liberal World Order
Mackubin Thomas Owens. Orbis, Spring 2006 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Net Assessment: A Practical Guide
Paul Bracken. Parameters, Spring 2006 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Did the Pentagon Get the Quadrennial Defense Review Right?
Michèle A. Flournoy. The Washington Quarterly, Spring 2006 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

National Military Strategy to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 13 February 2006 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Roundtable on the Quadrennial Defense Review
Stephen Biddle, Douglas Holtz-Eakin and William L. Nash. New York, NY: Council on Foreign Relations, 08 February 2006.

An assessment of the 2006 QDR
Clark Murdock. Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 04 February 2006.

Strategic Theory for the 21st Century:  The little book on big strategy
Harry R Yarger. U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute, February 2006 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Beyond Preemption and Preventive War:  Increasing US Budget Emphasis on Conflict Prevention
Cindy Williams. Stanley Foundation Policy Analysis Brief, February 2006 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

The Use of Force and Contemporary Security Threats:  Old Medicine for New Ills?
Allen S. Weiner, Stanford Law Review, 29:2, 2006. Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Army Posture Statement 2006
(19MB .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Special Operations Forces Posture Statement 2006
U.S. Special Operations Command, 2006 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Preventive Force in U.S. National Security Strategy
James Steinberg. Survival, Winter 2005-06 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute website.

A Grand Strategy to Reinvigorate US Leadership
Stanley Foundation 46th Strategy for Peace Conference Policy Dialogue Brief, 20-22 October 2005 (printable .pdf file).

Strategic Culture: Reviewing Recent Literature
Darryl Howlett. Strategic Insights, October 2005.

Strategic Culture: From Clausewitz to Constructivism
Jeffrey S. Lantis. Strategic Insights, October 2005.

The QDR Capability Mix: Problems, Analyses, Solutions
Robert P. Haffa et al. Northrop Grumman Analysis Center, August 2005 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Capstone Concept for Joint Operations, Version 2.0
Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, August 2005 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Key Strategic Issues List (KSIL)
edited by Antulio J. Echevarria, II. U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute, July 2005 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Strategy, Security and War in Iraq: The United States and the Gulf in the 21st Century
James A. Russell. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, July 2005 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Integrated Power: A National Security Strategy for the 21st Century
Lawrence J. Korb and Robert O. Boorstin. Center for American Progress, 07 June 2005 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Preventive War Meets Legitimacy: Balancing Power, Threats, and Global Norms in the Bush National Security Strategy
Bobby Smith. U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute, 18 March 2005 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

National Security Strategy of Preemption
Michael J. Arinello. U.S. Army War College Strategy Research Project, 18 March 2005 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Dissuasion and Allies
David Yost. Strategic Insights, February 2005.

Annual Report to the President and the Congress - 2005
Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense. Posted on the Commonwealth Institute website (printable .pdf file).

Defense Transformation and the 2005 Quadrennial Defense Review
Ryan Henry. Parameters, Winter 2005 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Capabilities-Based Planning: The Road Ahead
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.

Dissuasion in U.S. Defense Strategy
Workshop hosted by Center for Contemporary Conflict, 22 September 2004.

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

Preventive War: A Failed Doctrine
New York Times editorial, 12 September 2004.

Shooting First: The Pre-emptive War Doctrine Has Met an Early Death in Iraq
Ivo H. Daalder. Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2004. Posted on the Center for American Progress Website.

United States Nuclear Strategy in the 21st Century
James A. Russell and James J. Wirtz. Contemporary Security Policy, April 2004 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Propaganda, 'Preventive War' and the Weathervane of Foreign Policy
Bo Pellnäs. Dagens Nyheter, Sweden, 08 February 2004. Posted on the Nordic News Network on 26 February 2004.

The Militarization of U.S. Foreign Policy
Mel Goodman. Foreign Policy in Focus, February 2004 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

The Evolution of Strategic Influence
Susan L. Gough. U.S. Army War College, 07 April 2003 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

The Case Against the War
Jonathan Schell. The Nation, 03 March 2003.

The American Strategy of Preemptive War and International Law
Dietrich Murswiek. Institute of Public Law, University of Freiburg, Germany, March 2003 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

The Bush Doctrine and War with Iraq
Jeffrey Record. Parameters, Spring 2003.

The Return of Strategy: Post Cold-War U.S. National Security
James J. Wirtz. Strategic Insights, January 2003.

The U.S. Army and the New National Security Strategy
edited by Lynn E. Davis and Jeremy Shapiro. RAND corp., 2003 (printable .pdf files).

In Search of U.S. Grand Strategy:  National Security Strategy since Goldwater-Nichols
Matthew Baldwin. Duke University, 2003 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Deterrence and Preemption
Daniel Moran. Strategic Insights, October 2002.

But What's the Legal Case for Preemption?
Bruce Ackerman. Washington Post, 18 August 2002. Posted on the Yale Law School website on 20 August 2002.

The Myth of Preemptive Self-Defense
Mary Ellen O'Connell. The American Society of International Law Task Force on Terrorism, August 2002 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Preventive War
Harold Brown. Intervarsity.org, 15 September 2001.

U.S. Army War College Guide to Strategy
edited by Joseph R. Cerami and James F. Holcomb. U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute, 2001 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Strategic Defense Review in Context:  Schedule of Pentagon Reviews and Budgets
Cindy Williams. MIT Security Studies Program, 2001.