Defence Strategy, Planning & Research

Russia has undertaken several largely piecemeal and halting efforts to revamp the armed forces it inherited from the Soviet Union. In 2007, near th...

The United States is relying heavily on private firms to supply a wide variety of services in Iraq, including security. Based on the information av...

The Department of Defense (DoD) and the intelligence community rely on various systems to provide imagery to tactical commanders and intelligence a...

This book is an overview of the U.S. nuclear stockpile and the issues relating to maintenance and replacement of warheads. Nuclear weapons will con...

Congress has expressed a great deal of interest in using Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) to surveil the United States'''' international land borde...

U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) and U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM) are updating their existing civil support plans to include a complex catastrophe ...

Ballistic missile defense (BMD) has been a key national security priority for some time, even though such interest has been ongoing since the end o...