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Deglobalization and International Security
"Two trends-deglobalization and the evolution of cheap, smart weapons-will fundamentally alter world economic and security orders. The return of production and services to the United States will reduce the interest of the American people in maintaining stability in the international system. Reinforcing this trend, resultant employment disruptions, the oncoming U.S. debt and budget crises will force national leaders to choose whether to allocate resources to domestic, particularly entitlement, spending or to overseas efforts. Even more important, the new generation of weapons will dramatically increase the cost in blood and treasure of U.S. military engagements. In sum, the fourth industrial ...
Game Changers
What does the record of combat in the year since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine herald about the future character of ground war? Defense analysts are split on whether the conflict manifests transformative change or merely reinforces the verities of ground combat. On the one hand, the bulk of each side’s formations are armed with decades-old equipment and trained in Soviet-era tactics. However, both forces are adapting, and the Ukrainian military is demonstrating an impressive propensity to improvise and innovate. In particular, Russia was not prepared for Ukraine’s convergence of new capabilities in command and control, persistent surveillance, and massed, precision fires which are changing the game of ground warfare.
Forgotten Warriors
When the Korean War broke out in 1950, the Marine Corps was ordered to deploy an air-ground brigade in less than ten days, even though no such brigade existed at the time. Assembled from the woefully understrength 1st Marine Division and 1st Marine Air Wing units, the Brigade shipped out only six days after activation, sailed directly to Korea, was in combat within ninety-six hours of landing and, despite these enormous handicaps and numerically superior enemy forces, won every one of its engagements and helped secure the Pusan Perimeter. Despite its remarkable achievements, the Brigade's history has largely been lost amid accounts of the sweeping operations that followed. Its real history h...
Deglobalization and International Security
This book illuminates how the fourth industrial revolution will fundamentally alter global economic and security arrangements and offers options that allow U.S. leaders to exploit it to provide economic and military security for the nation, as well as important insights for fields ranging from strategy to trade to defense.
Technologies Converge and Power Diffuses
Dramatic improvements in robotics, artificial intelligence, additive manufacturing (also known as 3D printing), and nanoenergetics are dramatically changing the character of conflict in all domains. The convergence of these new and improving technologies is creating a massive increase in capabilities available to smaller and smaller political entities, extending even to the individual. This increase provides smaller powers with capabilities that used to be the preserve of major powers. Moreover, these small, smart, and cheap weapons based on land, sea, or air may be able to dominate combat. This new diffusion of power has major implications for the conduct of warfare and national strategy. B...
The Sling and the Stone
Recent history is replete with powerful military forces being tied up by seemingly weaker opponents. Recommendations for prescriptive answers are found in Thomas Hammes' insightful book on the strengths and weaknesses of conventional military power in which he describes fourth generation warfare, the means by which Davids can beat Goliaths.
The Sling and the Stone
David S Sling-And-Stone Fight Against Goliath Isn T That Far From Iraqi Insurgents Fighting Against Coalition Forces. While The Department Of Defense (Dod) Continues To Build A High-Tech American Military To Win Wars Against Other, Albeit Second-Tier, Goliaths, Insurgents Have Adopted And Are Practicing Sling-And-Stone, Low-Tech, Fourth Generation Warfare (4Gw). These 4Gw Warriors Rely On Networks Of People Over Networks Of State-Of-The-Art, High-Tech Weapons.Colonel Thomas X. Hammes, Usmc, Explores The Evolution And Current Practice Of 4Gw. Dod S Focus On High-Tech Drives Its Doctrine, Organization, Training, And Education To Teach People To Take Advantage Of Technology Not To Think About, ...
Newly Commissioned Naval Officer's Guide
Fully revised, this third edition of Newly Commissioned Naval Officer’s Guide continues to be an essential resource for all of those at the pivotal transition from midshipmen and officer candidates to newly commissioned naval officers from all service communities. Chapters address the principles of basic leadership, naval policy, service etiquette, and personal and professional administration. Including new insights from those who have recently made this transition, this book serves as a gateway to the many digital and print assets available to newly commissioned officers. It underscores continued preparation, repetition, action, leadership, accountability, and focus on the job at hand as lifelong career fundamentals. A brief history of the U.S. Navy is also included, as well as sample communications and helpful hints, making this volume an important source of advice and information for young leaders who, by their service, make a difference in the U.S. Navy, the nation, and the world.
Deglobalization
T. X. Hammes advances the argument that the emerging fourth industrial revolution is reversing globalization. The convergence of new technologies is changing how and where we create wealth. Quite simply, business will make more money by producing and selling locally than internationally. As wealth creation becomes local or regional, so does security. Hammes makes the case that this period of deglobalization will be long-term. How and where wealth was generated often drove conflict in the past. The major shift in wealth generation driven by the fourth industrial revolution will have a profound impact on the nature of state relationships and international security. A major development is the emergence of small, smart, and cheap but highly capable weapons systems. These systems will allow small states, and even insurgent groups, to impose very high costs on the United States if it chooses to intervene in local conflicts. It is essential for policy-makers to be aware of the range of effects this revolutionary shift will bring about. They must investigate the impact on U.S. security while there is still time to change our concepts, structures, and plans.
Power to the People
"This path-breaking study is about how ordinary people are gaining the means to be extraordinarily lethal. States are also concentrating their technological power, but their gains lag behind a shift in relative capacity that is already disrupting the role of conventional armed forces. The dispersal of emerging technologies such as roboics, cyber weapons, 3-D printing, autonomous systems, and various forms of artificial intelligence is widening popular access to unprecedented destructive power. Based on hard lessons from previous waves of lethal technology such as dynamite and the assault rifle, the book explains what the future may hold and how we should respond"-
