Parameters: US Army War College Quarterly. Volume 20. Number 4

1990 ◽  
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ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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Us Army ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 75-78
Author(s):  
Shirin Tahir-Kheli
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Us Army ◽  

2014 ◽  
Vol 96 (893) ◽  
pp. 13-27

Brigadier General Richard C. “Rich” Gross is the US Army Legal Counsel to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He attended the Military Academy at West Point and was commissioned in the US Army as a second lieutenant in the Infantry. He also attended the University of Virginia School of Law and the US Army Judge Advocate General's Corps. He holds a Master's degree in strategic studies from the US Army War College. Prior to his current position, he served as the Chief Legal Adviser for the Joint Special Operations Command, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), US Forces-Afghanistan (USFOR-A) and at US Central Command.The scope of application of international humanitarian law (IHL) is a deceptively simple concept; broadly speaking, it is where, when and to whom the IHL rules apply. Although this has always been a precondition for discussing IHL issues, the outer limits of the law's applicability remain unsettled. To open this issue on the nuances of the scope of the law's application, Brigadier General Gross gave the following interview providing the US perspective on the circumstances in which IHL applies, and the challenges that lie ahead in light of the ongoing evolution of the way war is waged.


Author(s):  
Michael E. Lynch

This chapter examines Almond’s final assignment as Commandant, US Army War College, where he left an indelible impression. This final assignment proved especially rewarding. Subsequent commandants have maintained and expanded many of his curriculum ideas, including a broader focus on international affairs and a joint perspective. He also used the time to study the use of l close air support in Korea, with an eye toward improving interoperability with the Air Force.


2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (34) ◽  
pp. 105-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerzy Ochmann

The author hypothesizes that in the era of information technology, logic is the crucial tool of security sciences, and logicians have a greater role to play in this field than politicians. This viewpoint is held by two significant institutions dealing with the logic of security: Academia Diplomatica Europaea (ADE) in Brussels and US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The author focuses on the assumptions and activities of Academia Diplomatica Europaea. ADE assumes that the major challenge to contemporary security is to change the enemy’s mentality into the mentality of an ally. To do this, one should analyse the following logical categories: the category of relations (between individuals and societies) and the category of hostility. ADE mainly focuses on social relations, with their sociological and psychological aspects, assuming that enemies have not only official, explicit opinions but also implicit ones, and learning these implicit opinions is a key to change the enemy’s mentality according to the aforementioned pattern. The author then discusses the methods relating to the logic of security used by ADE. Finally, in the light of the assumptions stated by ADE, he analyses the institution’s activities aimed at contemporary threats, the major threat being, according to ADE, terrorism.


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