POLS 4460: Electronic Readings

Group Memoranda

Border Security

China

Economy

U.S. Army War College Guide to National Security Policy and Strategy (2^nd ed., 2006)

Edited by Colonel (Ret) J. Boone Bartholomees, Jr.
http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/download.cfm?q=708

Jimmy Carter, State of the Union Address 1980 (Jan. 23, 1980)

http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.org/documents/speeches/su80jec.phtml

George W. Bush, National Security Strategy of the United States, August 1991

http://www.fas.org/man/docs/918015-nss.htm

William J. Clinton, Nation Security Strategy of Engagement and Enlargement (Feb. 1995)

http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/nss/nss-95.pdf

William J. Clinton, A National Security Strategy for a Global Age (Dec. 2000)

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/national/nss-0012.pdf

George W. Bush, “The National Security Strategy of the United States” (Sept. 2002)

http://merln.ndu.edu/whitepapers/USnss2002.pdf

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/national/nss-020920.pdf

Robert Jervis, “Understanding the Bush Doctrine,” Political Science Quarterly 118/3 (Fall 2003), 365-388

http://www.psqonline.org/cgi-bin/99_article.cgi?byear=2003&bmonth=fall&a=01free&format=load

John Lewis Gaddis, A Grand Strategy of Transformation, Foreign Policy 133 (Nov./Dec. 2002
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1077054/posts

Tony Judt, “What Have We Learned, If Anything?” New York Review of Books 55/7 (May 1, 2008)
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21311

Vice President Speaks at VFW 103rd National Convention

Remarks by the Vice President to the Veterans of Foreign Wars 103rd National Convention, August 26, 2002

http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/08/20020826.html

John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, “An Unnecessary War,” Foreign Policy, no. 134 (Jan./Feb. 2003), 50-59

http://johnmearsheimer.uchicago.edu/pdfs/A0032.pdf

Thomas Powers, “The Vanishing Case for War,” New York Review of Books 50/3 (Dec. 4, 2003), 12-17

http://www.commondreams.org/scriptfiles/views03/1121-11.htm

Thomas Powers, “What Tenet Knew,” New York Review of Books (July 19, 2007), 70-74

http://www.antiwar.com/engelhardt/?articleid=11214

http://www.truthout.org/article/thomas-powers-what-tenet-knew-unanswered-questions

James Fallows, “Blind Into Baghdad,” The Atlantic Monthly 293/1 (Jan. 2004), 52-74

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200401/fallows

James Dobbins, “Who Lost Iraq?” Foreign Affairs 86/5 (Sept./Oct. 2007)

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/08/who_lost_iraq_1.html

President’s Address to the Nation, Jan. 7, 2008

http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2007/01/20070110-7.html

David Petraeus, Report to Congress on the Situation in Iraq,” 8-9 April 2008

http://www.mnf-iraq.com/images/stories/Press_briefings/2008/april/080408_petraeus_testimony.pdf

Testimony of Ambassador Ryan C Crocker Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, April 8, 2008

http://armed-services.senate.gov/statemnt/2008/April/Crocker%2004-08-08.pdf

Stephen Biddle, “Patient Stabilized?” National Interest online (Feb. 29, 2008)

http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=16994

Steve Simon, The Price of the Surge, Foreign Affairs 87/3 (May/June 2008), 57-76

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/04/the_price_of_the_surge.html

Philip Gordon, Winning the Right War, Survival 49/4 (Winter 2007-08): 17-46

http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/articles/2007/winter_terrorism_gordon/winter_terrorism_gordon.pdf

Robert S. Litwak, Living with Ambiguity: Nuclear Deals with Iraq and North Korea, Survival 50/1 (2008): 91-118
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/pubs/livingwithambiguity.pdf

Katerina Delacorta, US Democracy Promotion in the Arab Middle East since 11 September 2001, International Affairs 81 (2005): 963-79

http://www.scribd.com/doc/14239243/Promotion-of-Democracy

Lawrence J. Korb, The State of America's Ground Forces, Testimony Before the House Committee on Armed Services, April 16, 2008

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/04/military_readiness.html

Group Memoranda