strategic studies institute

Russia’s destabilizing foreign policy in Latin America

September 20, 2011

Stephen Blank (professor of national security affairs at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College) in an opinion piece entitled “Russia’s Second Wind in Latin America,” which was published last month, assesses Russia’s foreign policy in Latin America focused on profit, influence, destabilization and anti-Americanism: Russian policy is not driven by Latin America’s views, but by [...]

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US intel is like a clipping agency

March 20, 2011

In this video, Stephen Blank of the US Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute offered a stinging assessment of current US intelligence-gathering capabilities at an Asia Society panel discussion last week on the present and future of Central Asia. [H/T: Public Intelligence]

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Police training in stability ops

September 8, 2010

The U.S. Army War College‘s Strategic Studies Institute published last month a monograph authored by Colonel (Ret.) Dennis E Keller, entitled “U.S. Military Forces and Police Assistance in Stability Operations: The Least-Worst Option to Fill the U.S. Capacity Gap.” Col. Keller gives a historical overview of U.S. foreign police training, where the “U.S. government is poorly [...]

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U.S. Army colonel calls for abolishment of embargo

February 16, 2009

Colonel Alexander Crowther, a Research Professor of National Security Studies in the Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, has written an editorial titled: “Kiss the Embargo Goodbye” for SSI’s monthly newsletter calling for the end of the U.S. embargo against Cuba. He has written prior editorials and papers on Cuba and its military. Col. [...]

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