McNair Papers
The McNair Papers are published at Fort Lesley J. McNair, home of the Institute for National Strategic Studies and the National Defense University. An Army post since 1794, the fort was given its present name in 1948 in honor of Lieutenant General Lesley James McNair. General McNair, known as "Educator of the Army" and trainer of some three million troops, was about to take command of Allied ground forces in Europe under Eisenhower, whence was killed in combat in Normandy, 25 July 1944.The following is a complete listing of published McNair Papers. Some of the papers can be viewed as HTML documents on your browser by clicking on the hyperlink titles. Where available, you can click on the WordPerfect 5.2, WordPerfect 6.1, or text hyperlinks following the citation to either view or save the documents in WordPerfect or ASCII text, respectively.
For information on availability of specific titles, in hard copy, contact NDU Press, Attn: NDU-NSS-PD, 300 5th Avenue, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, DC 20319-5066 (telephone: (202) 685-4210).
| 68 | Clausewitzian Friction and Future War (Revised edition), by Barry D. Watts, August 2004 (First printing October 1996) | ||
| 67 | 'Oil for the Lamps of China' - Beijing's 21st Century Search for Energy, by Bernard D. Cole, October 2003 | HTML | |
| 66 | Europe's New Security Vocation, by Michael Brenner, March 2002 | ||
| 65 | Agricultural Bioterrorism: A Federal Strategy to Meet the Threat, Henry S. Parker | HTML | |
| 64 | The Strategic Implications of a Nuclear-Armed Iran, Kori N. Schake & Judith S. Yaphe | HTML | |
| 63 | All Possible Wars? Towards a Consensus View of the Future Security Environment, 2001-2025, Sam J. Tangredi, | HTML | |
| 62 | The Revenge of the Melians: Asymmetric Threats and the Next QDR, Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., November 2000 | HTML | |
| 61 | llumating Tomorrow's War, Martin Libicki, November 1999 | HTML | |
| 60 | The Revolution in Military Affairs: Allied Perspectives, Robbin F. Laird and Holger H. Mey, April 99 | HTML | |
| 59 | Right Makes Might: Freedom and Power in the Information Age, David Gompert, May 1998 | HTML | |
| 58 | Searching for Partners: Regional Organizations and Peace Operations, William H. Lewis & Edward Marks, June 1998 | HTML | |
| 57 | Modern U.S. Civil-Military Relations: Wielding the Terrible Swift Sword, David E. Johnson, July 1997. | ||
| 56 | Turkey: Thwarted Ambition, Simon V. Mayall, January 1997 | ||
| 55 | American-Ukrainian Nuclear Relations, Roman Popadiuk, October 1996 | ||
| 54 | Caribbean Security on the Eve of the 21st Century, Ivelaw L. Griffith, October 1996 | HTML | |
| 53 | Defiant Again: Indigenous Peoples and Latin American Security, Donna Lee Van Cott, October 1996 | HTML | |
| 52 | Clausewitzian Friction and Future War, Barry D. Watts, October 1996 | HTML | |
| 51 | The Major Powers in Northeast Asian Security, Ralph A. Cossa, August 1996 | ||
| 50 | Mobilizing U.S. Industry in World War II, Alan L. Gropman, August 1996 | HTML | |
| 49 | Trouble in Paradise? Europe in the 21 Century, Steven Kramer and Irene Kyriakopoulos, March 1996 | HTML | |
| 48 | Khomeini's Incorporation of Iranian Military, Mark J. Roberts, January 1996 | HTML | |
| 47 | The New Great Game in Muslim Central Asia, M.E. Ahrari, January 1996 | HTML | |
| 46 | NATO's Future Beyond Collective Defense, Stanley R. Sloan, December 1995 | HTML | |
| 45 | Deterrence Theory: Success or Failure in Arab-Israeli Wars? Elli Lieberman, October 1995 | HTML | |
| 44 | International Military Education and Training: An Assessment, John A. Cope, | HTML | |
| 43 | The Mitterand Legacy and the Future of French Security Policy, Ronald Tiersky, August 1995 | HTML | |
| 42 | Ukraine: Stability and Instability, John Jaworsky, August 1995. | HTML | |
| 41 | Radical Responses to Radical Regimes: Evaluating Preemptive Counter-Proliferation, Barry R. Schneider, May 1995 | HTML | |
| 40 | NATO Expansion and Alternative Future Security Alignments in Europe, James W. Morrison, April 1995. | HTML | |
| 39 | Central European Civil-Military Relations and NATO Expansion, Jeffrey Simon, April 1995. | HTML | |
| 38 | French Security Policy in Transition: Dynamics of Continuity and Change, Robbin Laird, March 1995. | ||
| 37 | Interagency Cooperation: A Regional Model for Overseas Operations, William W, Mendel and David G. Bradford, March 1995. | ||
| 36 | Explaining and Influencing Chinese Arms Transfers, Karl W. Eikenberry, February 1995. | HTML | |
| 35 | NATO from Berlin to Bosnia: Trans-Atlantic Security in Transition, S. Nelson Drew, January 1995. | HTML | |
| 34 | The Russian Military's Role in Politics, James H. Brusstar and Ellen Jones, January 1995. | HTML | |
| 33 | American Neutrality in the 20th Century: the Impossible Dream, John N. Petrie, January 1995. | HTML | |
| 32 | Moving the Force: Desert Storm and Beyond, Scott W. Conrad, December 1994. | ||
| 31 | Redefining the U.S.-Japan Alliance: Tokyo's National Defense Program, Patrick M. Cronin and Michael J. Green, November 1994. | ||
| 30 | Vladimir Zhirinovskiy: An Assessment of a Russian Ultra-Nationalist, James W. Morrison, April 1994. | HTML | |
| 29 | Iran's Strategic Intentions and Capabilities, Patrick Clawson, ed., April 1994. | ||
| 28 | The Mesh and the Net: Speculation on Armed Conflict in a Time of Free Silicon, Martin C. Libicki, March 1994. | HTML | |
| 27 | In Search of a Post-Cold War Security Structure, Gregory D. Foster, February 1994. | ||
| 26 | Triage for Failing States, Edward Marks and William Lewis, January 1994. | HTML | |
| 25 | Peacekeeping: The Way Ahead? William H. Lewis, John Mackinlay, John G. Ruggie, and Sir Brian Urquhart, November 1993. | ||
| 24 | The Future of Palestine, Eugene V. Rostow, November 1993. | ||
| 23 | Czechoslovakia's "Velvet Divorce," Visegrad Cohesion, and European Fault Lines, Jeffrey Simon, October 1993. | ||
| 22 | How Has Saddam Hussein Survived? Economic Sanctions, 1990-93, Patrick Clawson, August 1993. | ||
| 21 | Developing Battle field Technologies in the 1990s, Edwin R Carlisle, ed., August 1993. | ||
| 20 | European Security Toward the Year 2000, William T. Johnson and Thomas Durell-Young; Jeffrey Simon; Daniel N. Nelson; William C. Bodie, and James McCarthy, August 1993. | HTML | |
| 19 | Should Article 43 of the United Nations Charter Be Raised From the Dead? Eugene V. Rostow, July 1993. | ||
| 18 | Interoperability: A Desert Storm Case Study, Sterling D. Sessions and Carl R. Jones, July 1993. | HTML | |
| 17 | Military Implications of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations, William H. Lewis (ed.), June 1993. | ||
| 16 | Moscow's "Near Abroad": Security Policy in Post-Soviet Europe, William C. Bodie, June 1993. | HTML | |
| 15 | Bulgaria's Quest for Security After the Cold War, Oscar W. Clyatt, Jr., February 1993. | ||
| 14 | US and NATO Force Structure and Military Operations in the Mediterranean, Ted Greenwood, June 1993. | ||
| 13 | From Gettysburg to the Gulf and Beyond: Coping With Revolutionary Technological Change, Richard J. Dunn III, 1993. | ||
| 12 | Friend or Ally? A Question for New Zealand, Ewan Jamieson, May 1991. | ||
| 11 | Iran: Soviet Interests, US Concerns, Ralph A. Cossa, July 1990. | ||
| 10 | Arabism and Islam: Stateless Nations and Nationless States, Christine M. Helms, September 1990. | ||
| 9 | Managing Crises in Defense Industry: The PEPCON and Avtex Cases, Steven R. Linke, June 1990. | ||
| 8 | A Strategic View of Insurgencies: Insights from El Salvador, Max G. Manwaring and Court Prisk, May 1990. | ||
| 7 | "The Tradition of Change in Soviet Foreign Policy," and Francis Conte, "Two Schools of Soviet Diplomacy," in Understanding Soviet Foreign Policy, John Van Oudenaren, April 1990. | ||
| 6 | Gorbachev and Soviet Policy in the Third World, Melvin A Goodman, February 1990. | ||
| 5 | What Makes Industries Strategic, Martin C. Libicki, November 1989. | ||
| 4 | SDI and Arms Control, Howard G. DeWolf, November 1989. | ||
| 3 | President, Prime Minister, or Constitutional Monarch?, Eugene V. Rostow, October 1989 | ||
| 2 | Grand Strategy and the Pacific Region, John E. Endicott, May 1989. | ||
| 1 | Egypt and the New Arab Coalition, Joseph P. Lorenz, February 1989. |
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