Naval Postgraduate School
Theses and Dissertations
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Organizational innovation and redesign in the Information Age : the drug war, netwar, and other lower-end conflict
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1998-03)
The end of the Cold War and the rise of the Information Age have fostered an uncertain security environment which the United States is struggling to master. The purpose of this thesis is to explore the factors that lead ...
Military intervention in sub-Saharan Africa
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1997-12)
The purpose of this thesis is to examine United States military intervention in the civil wars of sub-Saharan Africa. Because the United States does not have any strategic interests in the region, it becomes involved in ...
The United States and the Kurds: case studies in United States engagement
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1997-12)
The United States has developed a unique relationship with the Kurds throughout the course of the 20th century Significant American engagement with the Kurds has been carried out twice this century, between 1969- 1975, and ...
The long search for democratic stability in El Salvador: implications for United States policy
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1997-03)
From 1980 to 1992, the United States spent over 6 billion dollars to combat insurgency and bolster democracy in El Salvador, a nation of only 5.3 million people. In fact, El Salvador was the site of the United States' most ...
U.S. nuclear weapons in Europe: the current environment and prospects for the future
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1996-12)
The United States and NATO are on the verge of major new policy debates regarding nuclear weapons in Europe, yet increasingly, U.S. and some NATO European policy makers find it difficult to articulate persuasive rationales ...
Who are the soldiers of the revolution?
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1996-09)
This thesis records the results of a data-based analysis of 207 intrastate wars from 1945 to 1995. The intent of developing this database was to statistically determine the involvement of indigenous peoples in violent ...
The U.S.-Indonesian relationship in the 1990's and beyond
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1993-12)
This thesis argues that while Indonesia and the United States are not the closest of allies, new approaches to the way both countries formulate foreign policy will lead to a stronger friendship. A summary of U.S.-Indonesian ...
Blame-proof policymaking: Congress and base closures
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1993-12)
In contrast to the current political science literature on Congress, this thesis argues that the reelectability of Congressmen is not damaged when military bases in their districts are closed. According to Mayhew, Lindsay, ...
Toward the proper application of air power in low-intensity conflict
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1993-12)
This study argues that the U.S. Air Force's current framework for applying air power, termed the strategic bombing model, is inappropriate for low-intensity conflict (LIC). It outlines this model and traces the application ...
Entrenchment of the status quo in the Arab-Israeli conflict
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1993-09)
This study examines those endemic factors which contribute to the entrenchment of the status quo in the Arab-Israeli conflict. By removing the dynamics of the Cold War, the particular circumstances of the main actors- ...
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