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DA Department Chair John Arquilla's new article takes on Francis Fukuyama's view of history.

Read the full article here.

New Journal--Combating Terrorism Exchange

This is the very first journal built from the ground up exclusively for the CTFP community, which has grown to over 160 countries, and has thousands of participants serving in the military, government, and private and academic sectors. 

Current issue here.

Read the first issue! 
Second issue available here.

New Book--The Sovereignty Solution

Naval Postgraduate School Professor Anna Simons and her Special Forces coauthors offer a radical yet commonsensical approach to recalibrating global security. Their book discusses what the United States could actually do to restore order to the world without having to engage in either global policing or nation-building. Two tracks to their strategy are presented: strengthening state responsibility abroad and strengthening the social fabric at home. The authors' goal is to provoke a serious debate that addresses the gaps and disconnects between what the United States says and what it does, how it wants to be perceived, and how it is perceived. Without leaning left or right, they hope to draw many people into the debate and force Washington to rethink what it sends service men and women abroad to do.

by MC1 Leonardo Carrillo (PAO)

Air Force Lt. Gen. Eric Fiel, Commander, Air Force Special Operations Command, addresses an audience of Air Force and Defense Analysis students during a visit to NPS, Jan. 24. Fiel shared his views and answered questions regarding the potential changes that the special operations community is undergoing with the emergence of new technologies and the challenges faced from budget cuts and limited resources. He stressed the importance of the human element in every aspect of a mission.

Fiel was also briefed in detail on a NATO Special Operations Forces (SOF) Air Capability Study currently in progress by students and researchers in the Defense Analysis department. The study is designed to assist NATO's Special Operations Headquarters into possible platform selection, basing, organizational design, manpower, command and control, maintenance, logistics, and training implications of a Special Operations Forces (SOF) Air Wing that would meet both current and future NATO needs in the area of unconventional warfare.