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bullet Africa and Africa Command - 02/2008bullet Air and Space Power - 09/2007bullet Aleutian Campaign - 01/2000bullet Amphibious and Littoral Warfare - 05/2002bullet Arab-Israeli War, 1967 - 07/2002bullet Asymmetric Warfare - 01/2002bullet Battle of Britain - 07/2002bullet Battlespace Management - 11/2001bullet Civilian Control of the Military - 07/2005bullet Commander's Estimate - 12/2001bullet Computer Security/Network Defense - 12/2001bullet Consequence Management - 12/2001bullet Drug Interdiction - 02/2002bullet Effects Based Operations - 11/2005bullet End State - 09/2000bullet Ethics - 04/2001bullet Falkland Islands War - 11/2001bullet The Fog of War - 02/2002bullet Force Protection - 12/2001bullet Gallipoli - 06/2002bullet Gettysburg - 07/2004bullet Global War on Terrorism - 12/2006bullet Homeland Defense - 01/2002bullet India-Pakistan Relations - 01/2000bullet Information Warfare - 01/2002bullet Interagency Coordination - 06/2007bullet The Joint Task Force - 05/2003bullet Kosovo/Allied Force - 12/2001bullet Lebanon War 2006 - 6/2008bullet Leyte Gulf, Battle of, 1944 - 07/2002bullet Military-Media Relations - 04/2004bullet Non-Lethal Weapons - 01/2002bullet Noncombatant Evacuation Operations - 11/2000bullet Operation Anaconda - 05/2005bullet Operation Desert Fox - 01/2002bullet Operation Eagle Claw (Desert One) - 11/2002bullet Operation Earnest Will - 08/2007bullet Operation Enduring Freedom - 08/2003bullet Operation Iraqi Freedom - 09/2003bullet Operation Torch - 04/2004bullet Operation Uphold Democracy - 05/2004bullet Operation Urgent Fury - 01/2002bullet Posse Comitatus - 01/2002bullet Space Warfare - 01/2002bullet United States Force Transformation - 08/2005bullet Urban Warfare - 01/2002bullet Vicksburg Campaign, 1863 - 11/2000bullet Weapons of Mass Destruction - 05/2002bullet Women, Then and Now - 03/2008bullet Women in the Armed Services - 03/2005bullet Yorktown-Seige, 1781 - 01/2000

BOOKS AND DOCUMENTS

U 163 .A77 2001
Applegate, Melissa A.   Preparing for Asymmetry:   As Seen through the Lens of Joint Vision 2020.   Carlisle Barracks, PA:   Army War College, 2001.

Q 180 .A1 R36 DB246 1998
Bennett, Bruce W., et al.   What Are Asymmetric Strategies?   Santa Monica, CA:   Rand, 1999.

U 163 .B67 1999
Bouchard, Ronald M.   Information Operations in Iraq.   Carlisle Barracks, PA:   Army War College, 1999.

HV 6431 .B8 1997
Brown, Michael T.   Terrorist Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction within the United States:   Asymmetric Warfare Paradigm in the 21st Century.   Carlisle Barracks, PA:   Army War College, 1997.

U 21.2 .B85 1997
Bunker, Robert J.   Five Dimensional (CYBER) Warfighting:   Can the Army After Next Be Defeated through Complex Concepts and Technologies.   Carlisle Barracks, PA:   Army War College, 1998.

U 793 .C53 1998
Chandler, Robert W.   Counterforce:   Locating and Destroying Weapons of Mass Destruction.   Colorado Springs, CO:   Air Force Institute for National Security Studies, 1998.

UA 832 .C6724 1999
Cordesman, Anthony H.   Transnational Threats from the Middle East:   Crying Wolf or Crying Havoc?   Carlisle Barracks, PA:   Army War College, 1999.

MF/AD A340 964
Cukor, Drew E.   Marine Ground Intelligence Reform:   How to Redesign Ground Intelligence for the Threats of the 21st Century.   Monterey, CA:   Naval Postgraduate School, 1997.

U 163 .C98 1999
Cyrulik, Joseph C.   Asymmetric Warfare and the Threat to the American Homeland.   Arlington, VA:   AUSA Institute of Land Warfare, 1999.

MF/AD A333 273
The Defense Science Board 1997 Summer Study Task Force on DOD Responses to Transnational Threats; Volume 1 - Final Report.   Washington:   Defense Science Board, 1997.

U 163 .D578
Dinter, Heinz P., Jr.   U.S. Army Special Forces Role in Asymmetric Warfare.   Fort Leavenworth, KS:   Army Command and General Staff College, 2001.

MF/AD A364 115
Frenzel, Allen.   Restructuring the Armed Forces to Meet U.S. National Security Interests through 2015.   Carlisle Barracks, PA:   Army War College, 1999.

E 183.8 .C5 G298 1999
Gauthier, Kathryn L.   China as a Peer Competitor?   Trends in Nuclear Weapons, Space, and Information Warfare.   Maxwell AFB, AL:   Air University Press, 1999.

U 793 .K577 1999
Kimmel, Scott D.   Weapons of Mass Destruction and United States NBC Defense Readiness:   Has America Provided the Attacker Asymmetric Advantage?   Fort Leavenworth, KS:   Army Command and General Staff College, 1999.

U 163 .L9 1997
Lwin, Michael R.   Great Powers, Weak States and Asymmetric Strategies.   Monterey, CA:   Naval Postgraduate School, 1997.

U 413 .A66 C42 1998
Matthews, Lloyd J.   Challenging the United States Symmetrically and Asymmetrically:   Can America Be Defeated?   Carlisle Barracks, PA:   Army War College, 1998.

U 240 .M33 1996
McCabe, Laurence L.   Force Asymmetry in Low Intensity Conflict or How to Beat the Enemy at His Own Game.   Newport, RI:   Naval War College, 1996.

U 163 .M53 2000
McKenzie, Kenneth F.   The Revenge of the Melians:   Asymmetric Threats and the Next QDR.   Washington:   National Defense University Press, 2000.

U 163 .M36 1999
McKeown, Wendell B.   Information Operations:   Countering the Asymmetric Threat to the United States.   Carlisle Barracks, PA:   Army War College, 1999.

U 413 .A66 M37 2001
Metz, Steven.   Asymmetry and U.S. Military Strategy:   Definition, Background, and Strategic Concepts.   Carlisle Barracks, PA:   Army War College, 2001.

U 413 .A66 M54 1995
----------.   Counterinsurgency:   Strategy and the Phoenix of American Capability.   Carlisle Barracks, PA:   Army War College, 1995.

U 153 .M47 1996
Metz, Steve and William Thomas Johnson.   The Future of American Landpower:   Strategic Challenges for the 21st Century Army.   Carlisle Barracks, PA:   Army War College, 1996.

MF/AD A293 331
Michaels, Michael R.   After the Storm:   The ‘New Concept’ and the ‘Small War’ Challenge.   Newport, RI:   Naval War College, 1995.

U 240 .M55 1999
Miles, Franklin B.   Asymmetrical Warfare:   An Historical Perspective.   Carlisle Barracks, PA:   Army War College, 1999.

JX 4511 .P38 1994
Paul, T. V.   Asymmetric Conflicts:   War Initiation by Weaker Powers.   Cambridge, MA:   Cambridge University Press, 1994.

U 163 .P297 1999
Payne, Allan D.   The Impact of Computer Network Attacks on Infrastructure Centers of Gravity.   Carlisle Barracks, PA:   Army War College, 1999.

UA 835 .C5437 1998
Pillsbury, Michael.   Chinese Views of Future Warfare.   Washington:   National Defense University Press, 1998.

U 163 .S27 1998
Sands, Thomas R. and Paul H. Issler.   Special Operations Forces, Information Operations, and Airpower:   Prescription for the Near 21st Century.   Monterey, CA:   Naval Postgraduate School, 1998.

MF/AD A363 448
Spratto, Timothy B.   Precision Guided Munitions and the Asymmetric Threat.   Newport, RI:   Naval War College, 1999.

UA 23.3 .U78 1998
U.S. Congress.   Senate.   Select Committee on Intelligence.   Current and Projected National Security Threats to the United States.   Washington:   GPO, 1998.

MF/AD A314 915
Vockery, William N.   Future Conflict:   Force XXI against the Asymmetric Opponent.   Fort Leavenworth, KS:   Army Command and General Staff College, 1996.

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PERIODICALS

Ackerman, Robert K.   “Globalization, Instability Define Threat to West.”   Signal, vol. 55, no. 4, Dec. 2000, pp. 17-20.

Ahrari, Ehsan M.   “Unrestricted War:   The Leveler.”   Jane's Intelligence Review, vol. 12, no. 2, Feb. 2000, pp. 44-46.

Arreguin-Toft, Ivan.   “How the Weak Win Wars:   A Theory of Asymmetric Warfare.”   International Security, vol. 26, no. 1, Summer 2001, pp. 93-128.

Baumann, Robert F.   “Historical Perspectives on Future War.”   Military Review, vol. 7, no. 2, Mar./Apr. 1997, pp. 40-48.

Bunker, Robert J.   “The Terrorist:   Soldier of the Future?”   Special Warfare, vol. 10, no. 1, Winter 1997, pp. 7-11.

----------.   “Unrestricted Warfare:   Review Essay I.”   Small Wars & Insurgencies, vol. 11, no. 1, Spring 2000, pp. 114-121.

Campen, Alan D.   “Swarming Attacks Challenge Western Way of War.”   Signal, vol. 55, no. 8, Apr. 2001, pp. 33-34.

Chenery, John T.   “Transnational Threats 101:   Today’s Asymmetric Battlefield.”   Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin, vol. 25, no. 3, July/Sept. 1999, pp. 4-9.

Cheng, Dean.   “Unrestricted Warfare:   Review Essay II.”   Small Wars & Insurgencies, vol. 11, no. 1, Spring 2000, pp. 122-129.

Copley, Gregory R.   “Symmetry Among Allies.”   Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy, vol. 29, no. 1, 2001, pp. 4-9.

Corless, Josh.   “Hunting Goliath in the Age of Asymmetric Warfare.”   Jane's Navy International, vol. 104, no. 10, Dec. 1999, pp. 23-26.

Erwin, Sandra I.   “Elite War Fighters Brace for ‘Asymmetric’ Combat.”   National Defense, vol. 83, no. 545, Feb. 1999, pp. 18-20.

Esarey, Clinton et al.   “Terrorism:   The Most Challenging Asymmetric Threat to Force Protection.”   Common Perspective, vol. 6, no. 2, Oct. 1998, pp. 11-15.

Flynt, Bill.   “Threat Convergence.”   Military Review, vol. 79, no. 5, Sept./Oct. 1999, pp. 2-11.

Garner, Jay M.   “The Next Generation of Threat to U.S. Military Superiority…‘ Asymmetric Niche Warfare.’”   Phalanx, vol. 30, no. 1, Mar. 1997, p. 1 +.

Gill, Bates and Michael O’Hanlon.   “China’s Hollow Military.”   National Interest, no. 56, Summer 1999, pp. 55-62.

Gompert, David C.   “The Information Revolution and U.S. National Security.”   Naval War College Review, vol. 51, no. 4, Autumn 1998, pp. 22-41.

Goulding, Vincent J., Jr.   “Back to the Future with Asymmetric Warfare.”   Parameters, vol. 30, no. 4, Winter 2000/2001, pp. 21-30.

Grange, David L.   “Asymmetric Warfare:   Old Method, New Concern.”   ROA National Security Report, Mar. 2001, pp. 29-32.

Grau, Lester W.   “Bashing the Laser Range Finder with a Rock.”   Military Review, vol. 77, no. 3, May/June 1997, pp. 42-48.

Gunaratna, Rohan.   “The Asymmetric Threat from Maritime Terrorism.”   Jane's Navy International, vol. 106, no. 8, Oct. 2001, pp. 24-29.

Herman, Paul F., Jr.   “Asymmetric Warfare:   Sizing the Threat.”   Low Intensity Conflict & Law Enforcement, vol. 6, no.1, Summer 1997, pp. 176-183.

Hewish, Mark and Rupert Pengelley.   “Facing Urban Inevitabilities:   Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) Are a Classic Resort of Asymmetric Warfare.”   Jane's International Defense Review:   IDR, vol. 34, Aug. 2001, pp. 39-40 +.

Hobson, Sharon.   “The Asymmetric Future.”   Jane's Defence Weekly, vol. 34, no. 8, Aug. 23, 2000, p. 27.

“Joint Vision 2020:   America’s Military - Preparing for Tomorrow.”   JFQ, no. 25, Summer 2000, pp. 58-76.

Kauchak, Marty.   “Going Organic:   Fortified Mine Warfare Program to Counter Growing Asymmetric Threat.”   Armed Forces Journal International, vol. 139, no. 3, Oct. 2001, p. 72 +.

Kolet, Kristin S.   “Asymmetric Threats to the United States.”   Comparative Strategy, vol. 20, no. 3, July/Sept. 2001, pp. 277-292.

Kolodize, Michael L.   “The Asymmetric Threat.”   Army Logistician, vol. 33, no. 4, July/Aug. 2001, pp. 16-17.

Lamberson, Eric L.   “Current World Conflicts.”   Military Intelligence, vol. 26, no. 2, Apr./June 2000, pp. 4-9.

Metz, Steve.   “Strategic Asymmetry.”   Military Review, vol. 81, no. 4, July/Aug. 2001, pp. 23-31.

Nagl, John A.   “Hitting Us Where We Don't Expect It:   Asymmetric Threats to U.S. National Security.”   National Security Studies Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 4, Autumn 2001, pp. 113-121.

New, Larry D.   “Clausewitz’s Theory:   On War and Its Application Today.”   Airpower Journal, vol. 10, no. 3, Fall 1996, pp. 78-86.

O'Brien, Kevin A.   “Intelligence Gathering on Asymmetric Threats - Part One.”   Jane's Intelligence Review, vol. 12, no. 10, Oct. 2000, pp. 50-55.

O'Brien, Kevin A. and Joseph Nusbaum.   “Intelligence Collection for Asymmetric Threats - Part Two.”   Jane's Intelligence Review, vol. 12, no. 11, Nov. 2000, pp. 50-55.

Ozolek, David J.   “The Rapid, Decisive Operation:   A Construct for an American Way of War in the 21st Century.”   Australian Defence Force Journal, no. 144, Sept./Oct. 2000, pp. 12-20.

Perry, James D.   “Operation Allied Force:   The View from Beijing.”   Aerospace Power Journal, vol. 14, no. 2, Summer 2000, pp. 79-91.

Peterson, Gordon I.   “An Asymmetric Act of War:   Collective Responsibility Cited in USS Cole Investigation.”   Sea Power, vol. 44, no. 3, Mar. 2001, pp. 18-21.

Pritchard, Kenneth H.   “Asymmetric Approaches to Warfare.”   Officer Review, vol. 39, no. 1, July 1999, p. 11.

Rhodes, John E.   “The US and the Changing Nature of Warfare.”   Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy, vol. 29, no. 10, Oct. 2001, pp. 11-12.

Sapolsky, Harvey M., et al.   “Security Lessons from the Cold War.”   Foreign Affairs, vol. 78, no. 4, July/Aug. 1999, pp. 77-78 +.

Schwartau, Winn.   “Asymmetrical Adversaries.”   Orbis, vol. 44, no. 2, Spring 2000, pp. 197-205.

Shin, David W.   “Future War:   Back to Basics.”   Military Review, vol. 79, no. 5, Sept./Oct. 1999, pp. 63-69.

Sinai, Joshua.   “How US Defense Leaders View the Future Climate for US Special Operations Forces.”   Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy, vol. 28, no. 2, 2000, pp. 10-12.

Sinnreich, Richard Hart.   “Whither the Legion?”   Strategic Review, vol. 27, no. 2, Spring 1999, pp. 11-16.

Sirak, Michael.   “USA Weighs Outlays for Asymmetric Threats.”   Jane's Defence Weekly, vol. 36, no. 14, Oct. 3, 2001, p. 3.

Skelton, Ike.   “America's Frontier Wars:   Lessons for Asymmetric Conflicts.”   Military Review, vol. 81, no. 5, Sept./Oct. 2001, pp. 22-27.

Small, Stephen C.   “Small Arms and Asymmetric Threats.”   Military Review, vol. 80, no. 6, Nov./Dec. 2000, pp. 33-41.

Steele, Robert D.   “The Asymmetric Threat:   Listening to the Debate.”   JFQ, no. 20, Autumn/Winter 1998/1999, pp. 78-84.

Stone, Anthony.   “Future Imperfect.”   RUSI Journal, vol. 144, no. 3, June 1999, pp. 54-59.

Thomas, Timothy L.   “Deciphering Asymmetry's Word Game.”   Military Review, vol. 81, no. 4, July/Aug. 2001, pp. 32-37.

Turbiville, Graham.   “Assessing Emerging Threats through Open Sources.”   Military Review , vol. 79, no. 5, Sept./Oct. 1999, pp. 70-76.

Weiss, Lora G.   “The Submarine as the Ultimate Asymmetric Threat.”   Submarine Review, July 1999, pp. 67-69.

Worley, D. Robert.   “Asymmetry and Adaptive Command.”   Military Review, vol. 81, no. 4, July/Aug. 2001, pp. 38-44.

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ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

The RMA Debate:   Asymmetric Warfare.   On-Line.   Jan. 29, 2002.   Available at: http://www.comw.org/rma/fulltext/asymmetric.html

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