The Cultural Capability Triad - Three components combine to provide cultural capability: Regional/Culture-Specific Knowledge, Language Proficiency and Cross-Cultural Competence.
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This study is based on the geological analysis of the HRSC images taken on the orbit 0143 (12 m/px in nadir channel). The study area includes the western segment of Olympus Mons and the adjacent lowland plains (Fig. 1). Part of the volcano above the scarp is rather flat and is called ''summit plateau'' below. What is often called the volcano scarp is a slope classified into three morphologic types: Type 1 (S1 in Fig.1) is the steepest and dominated by ravines in its upper part and by talus...
Topics: CHINA, AIRLINE OPERATIONS, HEURISTIC METHODS, DECISION MAKING, SITUATIONAL AWARENESS, COGNITIVE...
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Topics: Civilización griega -- Influencias fenicias, Civilization, Civilization -- Egyptian influences,...
The United States continues to be drawn into complex conflict environments where multiple internal and external state and non-state actors (NSAs) compete for influence. This thesis seeks to address how an external state actor can establish influence in a civil war environment through effective support of non-state actors. The research question is addressed through an in-depth analysis of the Lebanese Civil War from 1975 to 1990, using both qualitative and social network analysis to assess the...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Greenheck,Kyle L, Naval Postgraduate School Monterey United States, case studies,...
It is crucial for public health emergency planners and responders to realize and account for socioeconomic barriers and the challenges they pose when faced with a bioterrorism, infectious disease, or other emerging public health threat impacting the homeland. The study design of this research incorporated two particular paradigms, investigative and predictive. The researcher found that social and economic factors account for nearly 40 percent of health outcomes in the United States. Public...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Neuert,Donald L, NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA MONTEREY United States, public...
Today's interconnected and complex security environment requires individuals and organizations that can think through and adapt to unforeseen and rapidly evolving situations. Senior military leaders, foremost General Martin Dempsey former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have repeatedly emphasized the need for greater innovation and adaptation across the US Defense Department. Paradox theory and polarity management are respectively an intellectual and an organizational change management...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Roy,Tod A, NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV NORFOLK VA NORFOLK United States, military...
Pressures inside and outside the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to reduce the incidence of problematic behavior1 within the military without a significant increase in additional resources are inducing OSD to rethink how it is organized to provide policy guidance and oversight of the departments numerous behavior-mitigation efforts. This means reconsidering the default institutional response of setting up a new program or task force to address each behavioral issue as it surfaces in the...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Marquis,Jefferson P, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA SANTA MONICA...
Drug trafficking organizations have increased their prominence throughout the Caribbean and Central America. These organizations undermine the rule of law, increase levels of violence and corruption, and hamper development, all of which can weaken a state. Weak or failing states become domestic and regional burdens that spill over into neighboring countries and cause secondary and tertiary problems. This thesis examines causes for different state capacities in the Caribbean and Central America...
Topics: DTIC Archive, King,Ryan T, Naval Postgraduate School Monterey United States, culture (social...
Recent U.S. military engagements in fragile states have focused on building security institutions that match Western military and police models. These operations, however, have highlighted the need to reevaluate how we build host-nation security institutions from the ground up in conflict areas with varying social, religious, and ethnic concentrations. The interaction between the environment, doctrine, and technology (EDT) provided by U.S. government agencies has complicated the issue by...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Odom,Christopher B, Naval Postgraduate School Monterey United States, contingency...
Despite uncertainty and difficulties in the modern Russian Federation, the regime enjoys massive popularity among its people, with approval ratings unrivaled in the past twenty-five years. This is a result of a carefully constructed narrative, pieced together using the strongest elements of Soviet and Tsarist propaganda, and enforced with censorship techniques borrowed from Stalin. This thesis establishes the continuity in both the propagated narrative and the censorship techniques employed by...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Hausladen,Michael A, Naval Postgraduate School Monterey United States, culture...
This seeks to illuminate the issues faced by the Island States in the 21st Century especially in the context of security. It demonstrates the impact of the powerful in an area of the world that is at once remote but subject to global forces ranging from post-war nuclear testing to transnational issues that touch each island group directly in a negative fashion.
Topics: DTIC Archive, Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies Honolulu United States, pacific ocean...
As a rising state, China has embraced, adapted, and increased the use of public diplomacy to influence foreign audiences in support of its strategic objectives. Chinas public diplomacy program is the cornerstone of its effort to re-brand the countrys image as a responsible international power and as an attractive economic partner. The quantitative analysis of this thesis explores which types of events tend to drive Chinas public diplomacy volume and whether China uses public diplomacy to shape...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Barry,Michael A, Naval Postgraduate School Monterey United States, china, government...
The 22nd Annual NDIA SO/LIC (Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict) Symposium and Exhibition will examine the operational constructs required to implement a comprehensive, whole-of-government approach to national security by considering the relationships and interaction of defense, diplomacy, and development in light of current and future engagements. The symposium asserts that accomplishing national security objectives increasingly requires multidimensional special operations forces...
Topics: DTIC Archive, National Defense Industrial Association Arlington United States, national security,...
With the Department of Defenses (DOD) recent focus on importing Silicon Valley-style innovation practices to its acquisition process, it is important to assess an organizations ability to effectively merge new concepts and practices with the existing acquisition system. This article examines applicable lessons from the DODs rapid acquisition practices during Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom, which functioned counter to many conventional acquisition processes. This research finds...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Wong,Jonathan, RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA SANTA MONICA, military acquisition, MILITARY...
The purpose of this Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) Study was to aid the United States Air Force Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (SAPR) program by reviewing the social, behavioral, medical scientific literature and studying new developments in the science surrounding sexual assault as well as considering applications from the cyber sciences that could be leveraged into practical solutions.
Topics: DTIC Archive, Foster,Robert, Secretary of the Air Force Acquisition Board Scientific Advisory Board...
The purpose of this essay is to analyze the High-Low cultural framework of Edward T. Hall with respect the subconscious influencers outlined by Robert B. Cialdini to see when subconscious influencers are most effective if using a Cooperative Negotiation Strategy (CNS) context. What we are talking about is power and its use. Specifically at the subconscious level in order to better facilitate desired outcomes for those who understand how to wield it.
Topics: DTIC Archive, DeKinder,Danny, AIR COMMAND AND STAFF COLL MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB United States,...
When a celebration following a college sporting event turns into a riot, the consequences may be devastating to a school, a community, and the police department. This trend is increasing on campuses across the country, and the perceived randomness of violence has police departments and communities alarmed. Based on several assumptions, current police training and policy focuses on crowd movement and riot suppression, which minimizes the ability to influence a crowd to the point of preventing a...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Mammana,Gregory N, Naval Postgraduate School Monterey United States, culture (social...
This paper examines the cultural/environmental factors that affect todays young adults (Millennials) serving in the U.S. military. These factors may not be readily apparent to Generation X and Y leaders. This paper argues that current military leadership principals are sound, however, the author argues nuanced modifications are recommended to effectively communicate, motivate, and discipline millennial subordinates while maximizing their talents through active and thoughtful professional...
Topics: DTIC Archive, MACGREGOR,JOANNE, AIR WAR COLLEGE, AIR UNIVERSITY MAXWELL AFB United States, military...
This paper examines four possible climate change-related security risks that emerged from an international game and scenario-planning session held in Delhi, India. Specifically, we discuss how climate change may increase nationalism and policies of internalization in developed countries; the impact of large-scale, climate-induced migration on a country's international policies, economic situation, and defining cultural attributes; the competition for limited resources as a source of friction...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Schkoda,Catherine M, CENTER FOR NAVAL ANALYSES ALEXANDRIA VA ALEXANDRIA, virtual...
War is inherently a joint undertaking. The functional forms of warfare are constructed by the military services, each with a distinctive theory of victory. In the blending of these dissimilar modes of warfare, the planning and conduct of warfare becomes shaped by inputs from these theories of victory. The purpose of this thesis is to aid leaders, strategists, and practitioners in avoiding the resultant friction when these theories of victory diverge, which if not constrained can impair the...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Ganske,Richard F, Air University Maxwell Air Force Base United States, unified...
Italy boasts the fourth-largest military establishment within the European Union and the sixth-largest in NATO, so Italian national security efforts and collective contributions have trans-European and even global significance. Italy has historically been an avid supporter of European integration, but nationalist movements promoting euroscepticism or isolationism threaten to alter both the Italian and the European security landscape. Three major political parties in Italythe Northern League,...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Lindsay,Timothy B, Naval Postgraduate School Monterey United States, foreign...
The Global Millennial Generation has changed Irregular Warfare through their digital nativity, opportunity for mobilization, and global networking capacity. Millennials across the globe are being mobilized in support of the global Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) cause. The millennials within ISIL's global insurgency are the drivers of these changes. The current Irregular Warfare literature does not account for these adaptations. Although the fundamentals are not changed, the Global...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Gilstrap, Samuel S, US Army Command and General Staff College Fort Leavenworth United...
To address unwanted gender-related issues in the military, each of the Services and DoD has implemented and expanded sexual assault and sexual harassment programs to spearhead prevention efforts and to provide reporting options and survivor care procedures. Continuing evaluation of these programs through cross-component surveys is important for reducing instances of sexual assault and sexual harassment of military members. This report contains tabulations of responses from the 2017 Workplace...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Office of People Analytics Alexandria United States, Sexual assault, sexual...
Culture is defined as a social domain that emphasizes the practices, discourses, and material expressions, which, over time, express the continuities and discontinuities of social meaning of a life held in common (James, 2014, p. 53).Groups define themselves in part through shared culture and understand others through perceived similarities and differences. Culture is a pervasive part of our everyday lives, and yet its influence often goes without notice. This oversight is also true for the...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Meyer,Eric II G, UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIV OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES BETHESDA MD BETHESDA,...
This study examines the relationship between cyber and kinetic events through the lens of Hofstedes cultural dimensions, over a 10-year span of data that began on January 1, 2004, and completed on December 31, 2013. Due to the relative newness of the cyber environment, a five-year interval was also examined for the cyber behavior. This was due primarily to the significant increase in cyber activity beginning at year 2010.This study is structured to allow for the examination of actors involved...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Sample,Char, CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA PITTSBURGH United States, EARLY...
The concept of soft power came to prominence in Chinese political and academic discourse in the mid-2000s, and is now arguably a deliberate and integral part of Chinese foreign policy, facilitating China's rise by shaping the external environment. Examples of Chinese soft power include economic diplomacy with the global South, the Beijing Consensus, public diplomacy initiatives like Confucius Institutes, and even tourism. This study expands on the existing body of scholarly literature on...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Kalimuddin, Mikail, US Army Command and General Staff College Fort Leavenworth United...
This study examines the relationship between Americas societal-military relations and the use of its armed forces abroad. It begins its analysis in 1975, the period immediately following the Vietnam War and the start of the All-Volunteer Force. It ends in 2014, the most recent year for which data is available. The study asks: to what extent the American people may have become disassociated from the countrys armed forces since 1975? And, to what extent such a disassociation may have contributed...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Lawrence,David F, Air University Maxwell Air Force Base United States, afghanistan...
Topics: DTIC Archive, National Defense Industrial Association Arlington United States, conflict,...
This research merges complex issues and concepts and offers several recommendations for integrating U.S. military into solutions to the challenges to national security posed by illegal immigration. The broad overview of global migration was covered as background to develop the idea that migration through Central America is a leading U.S. national security issue. As a national security issue, there is a military component naturally associated with immigration. The U.S. military alone is not the...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Baker,Brett T, National Defense University Norfolk United States, culture (social...
The post Desert Storm conflicts have shown the enemy has adapted the means of engaging the United States in conflict. These conflicts have not centered on engaging and destroying a military force but rather securing political victories. United States Special Forces will continue to conduct their unique primary missions and collateral activities within this environment and the training of the Special Forces officer should best equip him to operate accordingly. Special Forces officer education...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Harrower,Heath, Air Command and Staff College Maxwell Air Force Base United States,...
The 2008 Economist article titled Small Country, Big Ideas accurately stated that ...the emirate [of Qatar] has assiduously wooed the United States, inviting its Central Command to set up its forward headquarters at al-Udeid, an airbase near Doha, in time for the invasion of Iraq in 2003. [Today], the base has one of the biggest stocks of American military supplies anywhere in the world.1 In June of 2010, I will deploy for one year to al-Udeid Air Base (AUAB) in Qatar as the 379th Composite...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Chine,, AIR COMMAND AND STAFF COLLEGE, AIR UNIVERSITY MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE United...
This study examines the role of sociological intelligence in strategy development. It proposes a methodological approach to examining the socio-cultural dynamics at work within an adversary society and makes recommendations to improve sociological intelligence collecting to enhance United States strategy. Strategy in ancient Rome and U.S. policy in Iraq are used as case studies to illustrate successful and unsuccessful techniques. By providing a scholarly and analytical framework for...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Sgarlata,Jeffrey R, Air University School of Advanced Air and Space Studies Maxwell...
Human Trafficking (HT) is the modern day form of slavery. In 2000, the United States joined the worldwide efforts and made the commitment to combat HT with passing of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA). In 2003, they adopted the world approach to combating HT through the 3P paradigm of prevention, protection, and prosecution. Since being established, the TVPA has undergone revisions to expand the authority, punishments, and scope for law enforcement to enforce the laws of the TVPA....
Topics: DTIC Archive, Vargas,Michael, US Army Command and General Staff College Fort Leavenworth United...
Despite four decades of astonishing economic growth, Chinas authoritarian government remains firmly entrenched in power. This fact challenges modernization theory, which anticipates that as countries become wealthier they will also become more democratic. This thesis proposes that middle-class consumption is a missing variable in the causal chain for democratization in Northeast Asian countries under authoritarian control. The study examines the effects of consumption in a cross-country...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Marmino,Marc E, Naval Postgraduate School Monterey United States, international...
This thesis examines the establishment of plurinationalism in Bolivia and its relationship with a rentier economy based in extractive energy resources. In the early 2000s, Bolivia became part of a Leftist shift in governments across South America. With the election of Bolivias first indigenous president, Evo Morales, Bolivia cast aside neo-liberal economic policies and nationalized many of its industries, the largest being the hydrocarbon and oil industry. Utilizing strong cultural and...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Euans,Christopher W, NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA MONTEREY United States,...
Karl Mannheim's definition of social generations is used to analyze the current Peoples Liberation Army Navy's (PLAN) Officer Corps. Using a combination of existing quantitative and qualitative information, three social generations are distinguished based on the officer's approximate date of entry into the PLAN. Although this thesis is rooted in social science, several chapters are necessarily a selective historical survey of the PLAN focused upon those events that are expected to be impactful...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Juskiewicz, Brian C, US Army Command and General Staff College Fort Leavenworth...
U.S. competitors pursuing meaningful revision or rejection of the current U.S.-led status quo are employing a host of hybrid methods to advance and secure interests that are in many cases contrary to those of the United States. These challengers employ unique combinations of influence, intimidation, coercion, and aggression to incrementally crowd out effective resistance, establish local or regional advantages, and manipulate risk perceptions in their favor. So far, the United States has not...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Freier,Nathan, ARMY WAR COLLEGE CARLISLE BARRACKS PA CARLISLE BARRACKS United States,...
Chinas meteoric rise has captured the attention of the United States. Adding to the complexity is China has successfully made inroads in Latin America. This reality has strategists and policy-makers at odds with one-another with respect to formulating a policy for addressing the growth of Chinese influence in Latin America. The concern is whether the rise of China and its increasing presence in Latin America signals a challenge to the influence of the United States in the Western Hemisphere....
Topics: DTIC Archive, Barron,Benito J, Joint Advanced Warfighting School Norfolk United States,...
Strategic communications play a vital role in the fight against terrorist groups, especially in Muslim nations. This thesis analyzes the United States policies and strategic communications in the post-September 11, 2001 war against Islamic fundamentalists to determine if U.S. strategic communication policies have been effective in countering Islamic extremism. From the findings, it is evident that U.S. strategic communications have failed in countering radicalization and moderating the minds of...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Schouten,Dustin J, NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA MONTEREY United States,...
The most destructive war of the 19th century was the Taiping Rebellion in China (1851-1864). This rebellion claimed the lives of between twenty and twenty-five million people, nearly forty times the number of deaths that occurred in its contemporary, the American Civil War (1861-1865). The war was fought along cultural and ideological divisions between the Manchu dominated Qing Dynasty and the Christian inspired Taiping Movement. This monograph examines the experiences of Western mercenary, and...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Danko,Carl J, ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLLEGE FORT LEAVENWORTH KS FORT...
The importance of eliminating health disparities in the United States has become a top priority in public health efforts. Ethnic minorities have historically different experiences and access to health care services that may influence their current attitudes and health behaviors. The military provides a unique opportunity to address these important questions. Military personnel are a racially diverse sample that has universal access to quality health care thereby removing access as one of the...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Vaughn,Nicole A, UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIV OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES BETHESDA MD BETHESDA...
The population of racial and ethnic minorities in the U.S. has grown substantially over the last several years. The military is even more racially and ethnically diverse than the general U.S. population. In addition, in this post-9/11 era, military health care providers are increasingly deployed to geographically and culturally diverse regions around the world to support the ongoing global war on terror. It has become clear that to meet the needs of their increasingly diverse patient...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Lippy,Robert D, UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIV OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES BETHESDA MD BETHESDA...
William Faulkner, one of the most prolific American writers of the 20th century, examines various themes including race, gender, socioeconomic tensions, the Southern landscape, and the modernist viewpoint of space and time. However, one of Faulkner's most poignant themes woven through each of his works is family, specifically the dysfunctional family unit. In fact, Faulkner uses genealogies and complex family lineage as a metaphor for the ultimate dysfunctional family unit of America and the...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Christ,Ashley, U.S. Air Force Academy Air Force Academy United States, FAMILIES...
In October 2001, less than a month after 9/11, the US Defense and State Department started to study Iraq as a likely adversary in the Global War on Terror. For a year, the State Department organized over 200 expatriate Iraqi professionals into seventeen working groups to look at life in Iraq after Saddam Hussein. These Iraqi participants understood the realities and the cultural dynamics involved with such an endeavor; unfortunately, their recommendations and cautions went unheeded. In the...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Perez-Cruz, Alexis, US Army School for Advanced Military Studies Fort Leavenworth...
The roles and missions of militaries around the world are expanding into new areas. This, inevitably, affects the existing concepts of civilmilitary relations, and forces us to rethink those concepts in light of new roles and missions for the military. These issues are pertinent particularly to recently democratized countries such as Turkey. Since its path to democratization in 1946, Turkey has endeavored to develop democratic civilmilitary relations. Starting in the 1980s, Turkeys...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Isik,Yildirim, Naval Postgraduate School Monterey United States, group relations,...
The U.S. military is first-rate, yet it struggles to fight and win irregular wars. Surprisingly, throughout the course of history great powers have had difficulty with small wars. One must ask then, why and how do irregulars win as often as they do? The answer to this question will enable the United States to support irregulars more effectively, and defeat irregulars more efficiently. This thesis considers seventeen irregular conflicts between WWII and the present day to determine why...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Ballow,Andrew R, NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA MONTEREY United States,...
In 2013, the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff rescinded the long-standing restriction of women in combat. The Commander, United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) quickly accepted the removal of the ban, and tasked his special operations forces (SOF) organizations to examine standards of each of the selection schools. From the first US Public Law instituted in 1901 allowing women to serve in uniform, women provided a great service to the nation while...
Topics: DTIC Archive, van Weezendonk,Mark F, SCHOOL OF ADVANCED AIR AND SPACE STUDIES, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB...
Military practitioners face a daunting task, posits Col Richard J. Bailey Jr. in Dilating Pupils: The Pedagogy of Cyber Power and the Encouragement of Strategic Thought. They must incorporate cyberspace and cyber power into an already complex suite of military applications. However, our nascent experience with the technology shows that we have yet to understand fully the domains intricacies. Students of cyber strategy must acknowledge and respect the challenges inherent in this conundrum....
Topics: DTIC Archive, Air Force Research Institute Maxwell AFB United States, africa, military operations,...
President Barack Obama directed Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT) be replaced with a policy of nondiscrimination based on sexual orientation. While Congress considers repeal, the military is conducting research on how to implement a new policy. Repealing DADT will result in a cognitive desegregation of the military, allowing open or known homosexuals and bisexuals to serve. People differ in their opinions about the morality of homosexual acts and some have concerns about working with open gays,...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Moreau,Melinda K, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB, homosexuality, homophobia,...
This paper is a critique of Samuel Huntington's book, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of Remaking of the World Order. His writing is first placed within its historical context, specifically as a response to Francis Fukuyamas end of history thesis. An overview of the book, section by section, follows. Arguments by authors from various cultures who responded to Huntingtons book and related article (The Clash of Civilizations?) are reviewed to find common themes, resulting in three...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Fischer,Peter N, Air Command And Staff College Maxwell Air Force Base United States,...
