Naval Postgraduate School
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British Intelligence and the IRA: the secret war in Northern Ireland, 1969-1988
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1999-09-01)
Kosovo: the ethno-national dilemma and policy options for conflict resolution
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1998-12)
Fearful of large refugee flows, and the possible spillover of ethnic violence into other Balkan countries, the international community has become increasingly involved in trying to negotiate a peaceful settlement in the ...
The nuclear-armed Tomahawk Cruise Missile: its potential utility on United States and United Kingdom attack submarines
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1998-12)
In July 1998, Britain published its Strategic Defense Review(SDR). The SDR outlined significant changes for Britain's nuclear weapons program and formalized the policy of sub-strategic deterrence using the Trident missile. ...
The Russian Federation and the International Space Station : leveraging russian space strengths to control its missile technology proliferation
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1998-09-01)
In an effort to stop the old Soviet space program from plunging into a cataclysmic spiral of illicit foreign sales of its ballistic missile technology, and also to prevent the Russian space infrastructure from imploding, ...
Echoes of revolution: Iran's path into the modern world
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1998-06)
The 1979 Islamic Revolution has become for Western scholars and native Islamists alike the defining event of the Iranian experience. Shrouded in the garb of political Islam, the revolution represents to the American mind ...
Conflict and compromise in the southern Philippines : the case of Moro identity
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1998-06-01)
This thesis examines the ethnic Moro conflict in the southern Philippines. The argument herein is that the conflict between the Muslim Filipinos and the ruling governments, both colonial and independent, is not caused by ...
The Sea Dragon Network: implications of the international expansion of China's Maritime shipping industry
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1998-06)
This thesis examines strategic motivations and implications of the international expansion of China's maritime shipping industry (MSI). China's economic growth strategy depends upon maritime shipping to export foreign ...
Deterring weapons of mass destruction terrorism
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1997-12)
This thesis examines terrorist acts involving the use of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) against unsuspecting civilians by the Aum Shinrikyo and Rajneesh cults. The proliferation of WMD (i.e., nuclear, chemical, and ...
U.S. security policy in Asia after Korean unification
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1997-12)
The U.S. has pursued three policy objectives in Asia since World War II. They are 1) freedom of the seas; 2) access to the markets of the region; and 3) preventing the domination of the region by any single power. To achieve ...
Militarism in Mexico: civil-military relations in a transforming society
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1997-12)
Mexican society is becoming militarized due to the increased use of the Mexican military in domestic affairs. This militarization is the result of three factors: the internal focus of the military, the drug war, and ...
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