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Air Land Sea Application Center (ALSA)
http://www.alsa.mil
ALSA develops multi-Service tactics, techniques, and procedures facilitating joint information exchange and operational solutions.

Army Logistics Management College
http://www.almc.army.mil/

Australian Defence Force Academy
http://www.defence.gov.au/adfa/

Canadian Army Lessons Learned Centre
http://armyapp.dnd.ca/allc/

Canadian Forces College Information Resources Center
http://www.cfc.forces.gc.ca/home_e.html
Comprehensive site including references to and information about world armed forces, contemporary conflicts, international organizations and relations, military history and biography, and peace and disarmament.   The “Military History of Wars” section contains links to information on more than 500 years of war, from pre-1600 to the twentieth century. Especially useful for international links

Center for Army Lessons Learned, Fort Leavenworth
http://call.army.mil/
The CALL database requires registration, and is FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY, limited to Department of Defense employees and U.S. military personnel. There are links to CALL products such as the CALL Newsletter List, and other Internet areas of interest, including logistics.

College of Aerospace Doctrine, Research and Education (CADRE)
http://www.cadre.maxwell.af.mil/

Defence Research and Development Canada
http://www.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/home_e.asp

Defense Acquisition University
http://www.dau.mil/

Defense Technical Information Center Homepage
http://www.dtic.mil/

Department of Defense Libraries
http://www.defenselink.mil/other_info/libraries.html

DTIC Technical Report Database
http://stinet.dtic.mil/
The database for unclassified unlimited documents.   Some full-text documents are available, along with bibliographic data.

George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies
http://www.marshallcenter.org/
The center offers instruction in national security affairs to Europe’s senior defense officials, conducts research on European security issues, holds conferences on those issues, and conducts specialized regional studies and language training courses.   A few publications are available in full text on the Web site.

Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/
A world of information, including THOMAS, where researchers can access current bills under consideration in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, as well as the Congressional Record. (THOMAS can also be accessed directly at http://thomas.loc.gov/)
http://catalog.loc.gov/
Online catalog of the Library of Congress

Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress
http://www.ncseonline.org/NLE/CRS/index.cfm?&CFID=5882991&CFTOKEN=8496040
CRS reports related to the environment are at this Web site.   See Section 10, Miscellaneous Sites, U.S. Government, below, for additional links to Congressional Research Service reports.

The Mariners’ Museum
http://www.mariner.org/
The Mariners’ Museum is in Newport News, Virginia.   This site features information about current and upcoming exhibitions, museum collections, Mariners’ Museum Books, the library and archives, and “marifacts.”   Also includes photographs and images relevant to U.S. maritime history.

Middle East Research Institute
http://www.memri.org
Founded in 1998 to “inform the debate over U.S. policy in the Middle East,” the institute in Washington, D.C., produces free, in-depth reports on topics such as Palestinian nationalism, the Arab League, UN sanctions, and much more.   Reports and dispatches are in full text.

Military History Institute
http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usamhi/
Part of the Army War College, the Military History Institute is the U.S. Army’s central repository for historical materials.   Its mission is to collect, preserve, and make available to researchers source materials on military history, especially American military history.  Researchers can browse or search American Civil War biographical bibliographies, American Civil War Unit bibliographies, Normandy Photos database, Photo Collection database, Reference bibliographies, and U.S. Army Unit bibliographies.   A sampling of historic photographs taken from the Military History Institute’s Special Collections Branch reflects some of the more than 1 million images in its collection.

National Security Archive
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/

This site, produced by George Washington University, “combines a unique range of functions in one nongovernmental, nonprofit institution.   The Archive is simultaneously a research institute on international affairs, a library and archive of declassified U.S. documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, a public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to government information through the FOIA, and an indexer and publisher of the documents in books, microfiche, and electronic formats.” 

Naval Historical Center
http://www.history.navy.mil/
http://www.history.navy.mil/sources/index.htm
Sources for primary material related to American naval history

Naval Research Laboratory
http://www.nrl.navy.mil/
The Navy’s corporate research and development laboratory addresses basic research issues concerning the Navy’s environment of sea, sky, and space. Investigations have ranged widely from monitoring the sun’s behavior, analyzing marine atmospheric conditions, measuring parameters of the oceans, to exploring the outermost regions of space.

Ruth H. Hooker Library
http://infoweb.nrl.navy.mil/
An extensive list of links in the sciences and other areas

Navy Department Library
http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/nhcorg7.htm

Pearson Peacekeeping Centre
http://www.peaceoperations.org/en/peace_operations.asp
Links to the United Nations, various peacekeeping institutes’ sites, conflict management, human rights, humanitarian and development organizations’ sites, landmines and demining information and more.

Pentagon Library
http://www.hqda.army.mil/library/

Rand
http://www.rand.org/
RAND has a long history of research on issues relating to the national security and public welfare of the United States.   Its work involves most of the major disciplines in the physical, social, and biological sciences, with emphasis on their applications to problems of policy and planning in domestic and foreign affairs.   A number of Rand products are available here online in full text.

Study Program and Publications of SSI
http://www.carlisle.army.mil/ssi/pubs.html

U.S. Army Center of Military History
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/
Highlights include references to books and documents, CMH Publications, the Commanding Generals and Chiefs of Staff, 1775-1995, and a variety of finding aids.   Under the heading “contingency operations” are summaries of Operations BLUE BAT, POWERPACK, URGENT FURY, JUST CAUSE, and RESTORE HOPE.

US Army War College Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)
http://www.StrategicStudiesInstitute.army.mil
Includes schedules of upcoming SSI Conferences, a directory of specialists, and the SSI study program and publications

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