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IS THE UNITED STATES PREPARED FOR THE THREAT OF NUCLEAR TERRORISM? AN ANALYSIS OF CURRENT SAFEGUARDS AND POLICIES
(Georgetown University, 2011)
IS THE UNITED STATES PREPARED FOR THE THREAT OF NUCLEAR TERRORISM? AN ANALYSIS OF CURRENT SAFEGUARDS AND POLICIES
Perilous Waters: The Political Economy of International Warship Exports
(Georgetown University, 2013)
Why would a state export warships that could be used against it? Strategic logic suggests that increasing another state's combat power is bad policy, as the United Kingdom discovered when it faced British-built destroyers ...
THE WAR ON TERROR IN POSTMODERN MEMORY: EXPLANATION, UNDERSTANDING, AND MYTH IN THE WAKE OF 9/11
(Georgetown University, 2014)
War, like all human endeavors, is at some point of consideration a cultural event; understanding it fully requires an appreciation of war's events, its cultural context, and the interaction between them. In all wars there ...
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: A Failed State and Somali Piracy Threat Assessment: Criminal Deviance or Maritime Terrorism
(Georgetown University, 2011)
Current anti and counter-piracy strategies and operations by both the United States and the international community at large in the Gulf of Aden are fundamentally flawed. These strategies and resulting operations address ...
Beyond "Hearts and Minds"
(Georgetown University, 2014)
Ever since Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer proclaimed that "the answer lies not in pouring more troops into the jungle, but in the hearts and minds of the people," common wisdom suggests that the key to military victory ...
COOPERATIVE THREAT REDUCTION AND NONPROLIFERATION PROGRAMS: THE NEED FOR COORDINATION
(Georgetown University, 2013)
The growing number of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) threats requires the government of the United States to take an aggressive approach to protect its citizens and the world. This thesis examines the creation and ...
Cure or Disease: The Civil-Military Consequences of American Foreign Military Aid
(Georgetown University, 2018)
U.S. foreign military aid amounts to billions of dollars per year spread across nearly every nation in a variety of programs. However, the actual impact of this aid on the civil-military relations of recipient nations ...
Dangerous by Design: The American Special Operations Institution and Strategy in Irregular Warfare
(Georgetown University, 2021)
The United States Department of Defense defines irregular warfare as a struggle among state and nonstate actors to influence populations and affect legitimacy. Yet, despite the centrality of influence and legitimacy in ...