Forceful Engagement: Rethinking the Role of Military Power in US Global Policy. Dec 2008. The US has been using its armed forces beyond the limit of their utility.
A Prisoner to Primacy. [HTML Version] PDA Briefing Memo #43, 05 February 2008. The US security policy debate remains paralyzed by 9/11 and mesmerized by military primacy. Progress depends on rethinking the role of force.
Cul de Sac: 9/11 and the Paradox of American Power. [HTML Version] PDA Research Monograph #13, 05 February 2008. Post-Cold War US security policy evinces a disturbing paradox: it has been delivering less and less security at ever increasing cost.
Dissuading China and Fighting the 'Long War.' Carl Conetta. World Policy Journal, June 2006. The 2006 US Defense Review advanced two new strategic vectors for the US armed forces - one targets a putative "global Islamic insurgency"; the other puts America on a collision course with China.
