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Russia’s Corporate Soldiers
This report examines Russia’s growing use of private military companies (PMCs) to increase its influence through irregular means. In recent years, Moscow has expanded its overseas use of PMCs to countries such as Ukraine, Syria, Libya, Sudan, the Central African Republic, Madagascar, and Mozambique. Many of the PMCs operating in these countries, such as the Wagner Group, frequently cooperate with the Russian government—including the Kremlin, Ministry of Defense (particularly the Main Intelligence Directorate, or GRU), Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), and Federal Security Service (FSB)—and perform a variety of combat, paramilitary, security, and intelligence tasks. However, many of these PMCs have a poor track record—including operational failures and human rights abuses—and there are opportunities to exploit PMC vulnerabilities. Although Russian PMCs present only one of a variety of national security threats and challenges facing the United States, this report assesses that they warrant a more substantive and coordinated response from the United States and its partners.
Democracy and Solidarity
From "the nation's leading cultural historian" (David Brooks, New York Times), the long-developing cultural divisions beneath our present political crisis Liberal democracy in America has always contained contradictions--most notably, a noble but abstract commitment to freedom, justice, and equality that, tragically, has seldom been realized in practice. While these contradictions have caused dissent and even violence, there was always an underlying and evolving solidarity drawn from the cultural resources of America's "hybrid Enlightenment." James Davison Hunter, who introduced the concept of "culture wars" thirty years ago, tells us in this new book that those historic sources of national ...
Yüz Yıllık Kriz Afganistan
Kitapta 21. yüzyılda iz bırakmış Afganistan meselesi farklı ülkelerden akademisyenler ve gazetecilerin perspektiflerinden ele alınmaktadır. 2021’de ABD ve NATO Afganistan’dan çekilirken Taliban’ın ülkedeki kontrolü ele geçirmesinin ardından uluslararası toplumun özellikle Suriye benzeri bir muhtemel göç dalgası tehdidi nedeniyle odaklandığı Afganistan krizi arka planıyla birlikte farklı yönleriyle mercek altına alınmaktadır. Kitapta öncelikle Afgan siyasi ve sosyal yapısı, Sovyet işgali ve “Taliban’ın birinci dönemi incelenmektedir. Ardından 11 Eylül saldırıları ile birlikte ABD’nin Afganistan’a müdahalesi, NATO’nun operasyon komutasını devralması ve ülkede değişen dengelere odaklanılmaktadır. Kitapta ayrıca ABD’nin çekilmesinden sonra bölgesel dinamiklerde yaşanan değişimle birlikte Türkiye, Rusya, İran, Pakistan ve Körfez ülkeleri gibi aktörlerin Afganistan politikaları detaylı analiz edilmektedir.
Global Terrorism Threat Assessment 2024
This CSIS report states that terrorism is no longer the leading international threat to the United States or its top defense priority, but challenges related to violent extremism remain. The threat from Salafi-jihadist groups such as al Qaeda and the Islamic State has declined, and ethnonationalist threats are largely contained. However, a broader patchwork of violent far-left extremist ideologies has become more prominent on the global stage.
Competing without Fighting
China is conducting an unprecedented campaign below the threshold of armed conflict to expand the influence of the Chinese Communist Party and weaken the United States and its partners. The scale of China’s actions in the United States is unparalleled. This CSIS report offers one of the most comprehensive analyses to date of Chinese political warfare activities and examines China’s main actions, primary goals, and options for the United States and its partners.
Forward Defense
Russia's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine triggered the bloodiest war in Europe since World War II and raised significant questions about the United States' role in Europe. This CSIS report examines the U.S. force posture in Europe---including the military capabilities, personnel, infrastructure, and agreements that support defense operations and plans---and makes recommendations for future U.S. posture. It finds that the United States needs a robust, long-term military force posture in Europe, focused on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) eastern flank, to deter future Russian aggression.
Master of War
“Suzanne Simons is a masterful storyteller. But make no mistake—Master of War is not a work of fiction….A powerful and true account.” —Wolf Blitzer, anchor, CNN’s The Situation Room Master of War is the riveting true story of Eric Prince, the ex-Navy SEAL who founded Blackwater and built the world’s largest military contractor, privatizing war for client nations around the world. A CNN producer and anchor, Suzanne Simons is the first journalist to get deep inside Blackwater—and, as a result of her unprecedented access, Master of War provides the most complete and revelatory account of the rise of this powerful corporate army and the remarkable entrepreneur who brought it into being, while offering an eye-opening, behind-the-scenes look at the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Waging Insurgent Warfare
An analysis of insurgent warfare, looking at factors that contribute to insurgency.
