Preemptive and preventive acts of state often decide the issue of peace or war--basic human values are risked on the outcome. The current debate about preemption and prevention, however, is sometimes marred by partisanship ...

For more than twenty-five hundred years of recorded history the creation and communication of knowledge has increased in quantity and complexity. The method of communicating that knowledge has evolved in difficulty along ...

I construct in this dissertation a cultural genealogy to trace in Western civilization a consistent set of values that underlie a worldview that I call Strategic Intelligence (SI). I argue that the plethora of cultural ...

This thesis makes the ethical case for a volunteer Citizen-Soldier military in a democratic republic using Immanuel Kant’s (1724-1804) Categorical Imperative as justification. An Enlightenment theory, Kant’s Categorical ...