2006 Adelphi Papers

AP 385: Network Centric Warfare Coalition Operations in the Age of US Military Primacy Paul T. Mitchell Since its emergence in 1998, the concept of Network Centric Warfare (NCW) has become a central driver behind...
AP 384: Regulating Private Security Industry Sarah Percy The under-regulation of the private security industry has increasingly become a topic of media and academic interest. This Adelphi Paper enters the debate by explaining why the...
AP 383: Nuclear Superiority The ‘new triad’ and the evolution of nuclear strategy David S. McDonough In 2002 the Bush administration completed a Nuclear Posture Review that introduced a ‘new triad’ based on...
AP 382: North Korean Reform Robert L. Carlin and Joel S. Wit While foreign policy and security concerns have trumped past efforts to reform the North Korean economy, Pyongyang is implementing important economic...
AP 381: Myanmar's Foreign Policy Jürgen Haacke Against the background of its problematic human-rights record and the military regime’s continued extra-constitutional rule, Myanmar has faced mounting diplomatic pressure from...
AP 380: Libya and Nuclear Proliferation Wyn Q. Bowen For over three decades, driven by the core motive of deterring external threats to its security, Libya sought to acquire nuclear weapons. Having attempted but failed to...
AP 379: Transformation of Strategic Affairs Lawrence Freedman This paper examines the difficulty the US armed forces face in shifting their focus from preparing for regular wars, in which combat is separated from civil society, to...