Strategy and logistics for the new world order

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Authors
Gildersleeve, Cory Ward
Subjects
Strategy
Logistics
National Interests
Uranium
Phosphates
FMS
Multinational Defense
Advisors
Trietsch, Dan
Brown, R. Mitchell
Date of Issue
1990-12
Date
Dec-90
Publisher
Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School
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Abstract
An interdisciplinary analysis of the post-Cold War world to determine the optimal strategy to attain the national interests of the United States, and the requisite logistic structure to support that strategy. The optimal solution is found to be a strategy based on multinational defense centered on a permanent force of United Nations garrison port complexes. This multilateral force would be augmented by as small a national defense force as necessary to ensure national security. The thesis endeavors to reconnect the cultural and philosophical past of the United States with its immediate future. National interests are identified through examination of American Pragmatism and the philosophies of John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. To determine the current status of common defense, based upon the Foreign Military Sales system, and analysis of current data is accomplished. Future threats to the United States are examined with special emphasis on nuclear terrorism. The ability of Islamic nations in North Africa and the Middle East to produce significant quantities of uranium is demonstrated. The grave political as well as ongoing environmental consequences of this recent capability are discussed in detail.
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Administrative Sciences
National Security Affairs (NSA)
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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Format
viii, 129 p. ill.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.
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