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NSA Professor Rachel Sigman has been honored with the 2020 Hamming Teaching Award for her caring dedication to her teaching and students. She builds relationships with her students that last b Read More...
Two of NSA’s recent graduates, Majors Eric Hovey and Jason Hotalen, have an article “Optimize Maritime Security Cooperation” featured in the August 2020 issue of the US Naval Institute’s Proce Read More...
NSA’s Scott Jasper has a new article post titled, “To Secure the Election: Tame the Russian Bear in Cyberspace.” It is featured on Net Politics, the blog site for the Council on Foreign Relations. Tho Read More...
The Naval War College Review has released a new article titled “Twenty-First-Century Innovation Pathways for the US Navy in the Age of Competition” by NSA Professor James Russell. In the article, Read More...
The NPS Regional Security Studies Program will help prepare senior enlisted personnel in the Navy for deployment while allowing them to earn graduate credits. According to the program officer, Command Read More...
NSA Prof. Tom Johnson has co-authored a new article on Afghan electrons with Ronald J. Barnhart for the April 2020 edition of the Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs. The article, “An Read More...
The US Air Force Strategic Studies Quarterly published a book review by NSA student Major Temesha R. Christensen (USAF). Maj. Christensen, a current student, reviewed Chinese Foreign Policy: An Introd Read More...
Current NSA student Major Ryan Tice, USMC, has had two articles published recently. The first is on naval integration and appeared in Proceedings and the other is an article on great power competition Read More...
Col John Zavage, the Foreign Area Officer Chair under the NSA Department and retired NSA Professor Robert Springborg have written a paper (with F.C. “Pink” Williams), which has just been released by t Read More...
NSA Professor Cris Matei co-authored an article with Jumana Kawar, who previously worked in the NSA Department for four years. The article, titled “Tunisia’s Post-Arab Spring Intelligence Reform,” app Read More...
NSA professors Drs. Nazneen Barma and Jessica Piombo have coauthored a new article (with Naomi Levy) titled, “The Puzzle of International Intervention in Conflict-Affected States,” published in Decemb Read More...
In a new article in the Journal of Religion and Violence titled, “Not My Brother’s Keeper: Factional Infighting in Armed Islamist Movements,” Professor Mohammed Hafez discusses how jihadists just Read More...
An article, titled “Iran, the Unitary State,” by NSA Professor Ashon Ostovar appeared in the 18 October 2019 edition of Foreign Affairs. In the article, using the September 2019 drone strikes on two m Read More...
Former NSA student, Captain YiCheng Garrard, has written an article titled “Technology: Revolutionary in Moderation, Fatal in Excess,” published in the October 2019 version of the Marine Corps Gazette Read More...
In his article “Chinese Views of the Nuclear Endgame in North Korea” just published by Nonproliferation Review, NSA Professor Covell Meyskens examines the Chinese views on the North Korean nuclear pro Read More...
NSA Professor Emily Meierding has written a new article titled, “The Real Reason Trump Won’t Attack Iran,” published in Foreign Policy on 18 September 2019. In the article, Dr. Meierding considers var Read More...
Professor Thomas-Durell Young has recently published two new articles, “NATO’s Selective Sea Blindness: Assessing the Alliance’s New Navies” by U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons and “What are Gov Read More...
NSA Professor Tom Johnson’s book, Taliban Narratives: The Use and Power of Stories in the Afghanistan Conflict, has been released in Farsi/Dari by the Afghan Institute of Strategic Studies. The panel Read More...
A June 2019 issue of Foreign Policy features NSA Professor Afshon Ostovar’s most recent article, “The Islamic Republic of Recklessness.” The article discusses Iran’s motivations behind its likely atta Read More...
On 23 May 2019, NSA Dr. Naazneen Barma addressed the World Affairs Council, Monterey Bay, on Afghanistan’s Political Order and Peace Prospects. In her talk, Dr. Barma assessed the prospects for peace Read More...
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NSA Professor Rachel Sigman Awarded 2020 Hamming Teaching AwardSeptember 25, 2020
NSA Professor Rachel Sigman has been honored with the 2020 Hamming Teaching Award for her caring dedication to her teaching and students.
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Optimize Maritime Security Cooperation: NSA Graduates Published in ProceedingsSeptember 11, 2020
Two of NSA’s recent graduates, Majors Eric Hovey and Jason Hotalen, have an article “Optimize Maritime Security Cooperation” featured in the August 2020 issue of the US Naval Institute’s Proce...
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Tame the Russian Bear in Cyberspace; Article by NSA’s Scott JasperJuly 27, 2020
NSA’s Scott Jasper has a new article post, “To Secure the Election: Tame the Russian Bear in Cyberspace.”
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NSA Prof. James Russell Article on Twenty-First-Century Innovation Pathways for the U.S. NavyJuly 20, 2020
The Naval War College Review has released a new article titled “Twenty-First-Century Innovation Pathways for the US Navy in the Age of Competition” by NSA Professor James Russell. In the article,...
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Navy Enlisted in New Regional Studies ProgramMay 21, 2020
New NPS program welcomes enlisted as part of a new program, NPS Regional Security Studies Program, springing from the 2020 Education for Seapower Strategy.
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“Examination of Afghanistan’s 2018 Wolesi Jirga Elections” by NSA Prof. Tom JohnsonApril 30, 2020
NSA Prof. Tom Johnson has co-authored a new article on Afghan electrons with Ronald J. Barnhart for the April 2020 edition of the Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs. The article, “An ...
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Chinese Foreign Policy Reviewed by NSA Student Maj. ChristensenMarch 10, 2020
The US Air Force Strategic Studies Quarterly published a book review by NSA student Major Temesha R. Christensen (USAF). Maj. Christensen, a current student, reviewed Chinese Foreign Policy: An Introd...
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February 24, 2020
NSA Professor Mohammed Hafez has co-authored (with Emily Kalah Gade and Michael Gabbay) an award winning article, “Fratricide in Rebel Movements: A Network Analysis of Syrian Militant Infighting,” whi...
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February 18, 2020
Maj. Ryan Tice publishes and article on naval integration and another on great power competition in the Arctic.
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February 17, 2020
Col John Zavage, the Foreign Area Officer Chair under the NSA Department and retired NSA Professor Robert Springborg have written a paper (with F.C. “Pink” Williams), which has just been released by t...
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Mao's Third Front: The Militarization of Cold War China
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As a study grounded in largely untapped archival and scholarly sources, Eternal Dawn presents a definitive look inside the development and evolution of Atatürk's Turkey. Rather than presenting the country's founding and transformation as an extension of Mustafa Kemal's life and achievements, scholar Ryan Gingeras presents Turkey's early years as the culmination of a variety of social and political forces dating back to the late Ottoman Empire.
When he took office in 1969, the term that Richard Nixon embraced to describe his plan for ending the American war in Vietnam was “Vietnamization,” the process of withdrawing US troops and turning over responsibility for the war to the South Vietnamese government. The concept had far reaching implications, both for understanding Nixon’s actions and for shaping U.S. military thinking years after Washington’s failure to ensure the survival of its client state in South Vietnam.
What are the role and place of secret services and covert operations in democratic settings? How do states balance the need for both secrecy and openness? What are the challenges to creating effective intelligence practices? Focusing on these crucial questions, the authors of The Conduct of Intelligence in Democracies examine the purposes and processes of intelligence communities in today's security environment.
Edited by Dr. Robert E. Looney, this handbook explores international and regional preferential trade agreements through which countries with similar interests can benefit from economic liberalization and expanded trade. It also explores the strengths and weaknesses of these agreements as well as how agreement members can sustain growth and prosperity given the perpetual challenges of the global economic environment.
Professors Donald Abenheim and Carolyn Halladay have published essays on German-American civil-military relations, an anthology at the center of which is the "citizen in uniform" and concern for this institution. The individual contributions analyze from different perspectives (especially focusing on the problem of tradition), which are challenged by this culture and a corresponding soldierly self-understanding on both sides of the Atlantic.
Dr. Thomas-Durell Young delves into the state of defense institutions in Central and Eastern Europe, whose resources have declined at a faster rate than their Western neighbors due to social and fiscal circumstances at home and shifting international attitudes. He documents the status of reform of these armed forces and the role that Western nations have played since the Cold War and identifies barriers to success, the most successful management practices in both Western and Eastern capitals.
Why has the Taliban been so much more effective in presenting messages that resonate with the Afghan population than the United States, the Afghan government and their allies? This book, based on years of field research and the assessment of hundreds of original source materials, examines the information operations and related narratives of Afghan insurgents, especially the Afghan Taliban, and investigates how the Taliban has won the information war.