General Resources

• Air University Research Web

• DoD and Service Journals and Research Papers
  particularly useful are the cumulative indexes, available for some of the journals, allowing you to quickly skim through the article titles and spot stuff you needed but didn't know to search for

• General Accounting Office (GAO)
  

• Congressional Research Service (CRS)
  

National Strategy

• National Security Strategy (NSS) of the United States, Sep 2002 (local copy)

• The National Strategy For Homeland Security: Office of Homeland Security, 16 July 2002 (local copy)

• National Strategy to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction, Dec 2002 (local copy)

• The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, Feb 2003 (local copy)

• The National Strategy for the Physical Protection of Critical Infrastructures and Key Assets, Feb 2003 (local copy)

• National Strategy for Combating Terrorism, Feb 2003 (local copy)

• National Military Strategy (NMS) (local copy)

Homeland Defense

• See Homeland Security page

• The Hart-Rudman Commission and the Homeland Defense (local copy), 2001, Strategic Studies Institute - terrorism isn't the only threat

• Homeland Security: The New Role for Defense, Strategic Forum No. 189

• CPC No. 11 - Homeland Defense: Are We There Yet? by Ward (PDF file)

• General Accounting Office (GAO)
  
  GAO Reports on Homeland Security
  GAO Reports on Airport Security
  

• Congressional Research Service (CRS)
  
  Homeland Security: Intelligence Support
  Homeland Security: Coast Guard Operations–Background and Issues for Congress
  Homeland Security: State and Local Preparedness Issues
  Homeland Security: Human Resources Management
  Terrorist Nuclear Attacks on Seaports: Threat and Response
  Terrorism: Automated Lookout Systems and Border Security Options and Issues
  

National Guard

• Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Teams (WMD-CST): A Necessary Failure, ACSC paper
• The Role of the National Guard in Responding to Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Attacks in the U.S.: Where Do We Stand?, ACSC paper

• Maxwell Paper No. 1 - Air National Guard Fighters in the Total Force. (PDF file)
• Maxwell Paper No. 6 - The National Guard Citizen-Soldier: The Linkage between Responsible National Security and the Will of the People. (PDF file)

• Congressional Research Service (CRS)
  
  Terrorism and the Military's Role in Domestic Crisis Management: Background and Issues for Congress
  

Missile Threat and Defense

• See Missile Defense on Homeland Security page

• Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat, National Air Intelligence Center (NAIC)

• Foreign Missile Developments and the Ballistic Missile Threat Through 2015 (local copy), Unclassified Summary of a National Intelligence Estimate

• World Missile Chart - Countries Possessing Ballistic Missiles, from the Carnegie Non-Proliferation Project -- comprehensive, easy to use

• CSAT No. 5 - Lasers and Missile Defense: New Concepts for Space-based and Ground-based Laser Weapons [HTML]

• CPC No. 6 - Assessment of the Emerging Biocruise Threat, by Kiziah (.doc file) (PDF file)
• CPC No. 7 - Biocruise -- A Contemporary Threat, by Dickey (.doc file) (PDF file)

• Congressional Research Service (CRS)
  
  National Missile Defense and Alaska
  

Critical Infrastructure

• Congressional Research Service (CRS)
  
  Critical Infrastructure Information Disclosure and Homeland Security
  Critical Infrastructure Remote Control Systems and the Terrorist Threat
  Critical Infrastructures: Background, Policy, and Implementation
  Critical Infrastructures: What Makes an Infrastructure Critical?
  

Maritime Security

• Congressional Research Service (CRS)
  
  Homeland Security: Coast Guard Operations–Background and Issues for Congress
  Maritime Security: Overview of Issues
  Terrorist Nuclear Attacks on Seaports: Threat and Response
  Terrorism and Security Issues Facing the Water Infrastructure Sector
  

State & Local

• Congressional Research Service (CRS)
  
  The Department of Homeland Security: State and Local Preparedness Issues
  

Counterdrug

• The Drug Scourge as a Hemispheric Problem (local copy), by McCaffrey, 2001, for Strategic Studies Institute

• Congressional Research Service (CRS)
  
  Drug Control: International Policy and Options
  

Terrorism

• See Terrorism page

• See Medical section below

• See Congressional Joint Inquiry Findings and Recommendations regarding Intelligence and 9-11

• Report on Activities and Programs for Countering Proliferation and NBC Terrorism (local copy), Executive Summary, May 2002, Counterproliferation Program Review Committee (CPRC)

• Defeating Terrorism: Strategic Issue Analyses (local copy), 2002, Strategic Studies Institute

• Responding to Terror: A Report on the U.S. Army War College Consequence Management Symposium (local copy)

• Terrorism's Financial Lifeline: Can It be Severed? (local copy) Strategic Forum No. 191

• CPC No. 1 - The Military Role in Countering Terrorist Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction, by Dickinson (PDF file)

• Future Roles of Air and Space Power in Combatting Terrorism, ACSC paper, 1997

• General Accounting Office (GAO)
  
  GAO Reports on Terrorism
  

• Congressional Research Service (CRS)
  
  Terrorist Nuclear Attacks on Seaports: Threat and Response
  Terrorism and Security Issues Facing the Water Infrastructure Sector
  National Commission on Terrorism Report: Background and Issues for Congress
  Agroterrorism: Options in Congress
  Terrorism: Near Eastern Groups and State Sponsors, 2002
  Terrorism, the Future, and U.S. Foreign Policy
  Terrorism and the Military's Role in Domestic Crisis Management: Background and Issues for Congress
  Terrorism: Automated Lookout Systems and Border Security Options and Issues
  

Chem-Bio

• See Medical section below

• See Counter-Chem Warfare CONOPS

• The Gathering Biological Warfare Storm, book from USAF Counterproliferation Center

  Air Force pubs

  • See also AF First Response pubs

  • AFI 10-2501, Full Spectrum Threat Response (FSTR) Planning and Operations
  • AFI 10-2502, USAF WMD Threat Planning and Response Handbook
  • AFVA 10-2511, USAF Standardized Attack Warning Signals for NBCC Medium and High Threat Areas
  • AFVA 10-2512, Mission-Oriented Protective Postures (MOPP)
  • AFM 10-2602, Nuclear, Biological, Chemical, and Conventional (NBCC) Defense Operations and Standards

• Biological and Chemical Terrorism: Strategic Plan for Preparedness and Response
  summary of recommendations of the CDC Strategic Planning Workgroup in year 2000 report Preparedness and Response to Biological and Chemical Terrorism: A Strategic Plan

• Adversary Use of NBC Weapons: A Neglected Challenge, Strategic Forum No. 187

• CPC No. 3 - A Chemical and Biological Warfare Threat -- USAF Water Systems at Risk, by Hickman (PDF file)
• CPC No. 4 - Chemical-Biological Attack -- Achilles Heel of the Air Expeditionary Force?, by Hepburn

• Biological Weapons--The Poor Man's Nuke, AWC paper
• Homeland Biological Warfare Consequence Management: Capabilities And Needs Assessment, ACSC paper

• Agricultural Bioterrorism: A Federal Strategy to Meet the Threat (local copy), McNair Paper No. 65

• Congressional Research Service (CRS)
  
  Agroterrorism: Options in Congress
  

• Medical Management of Biological Casualties, U.S. Army Handbook

• Medical Management of Chemical Casualties Handbook

Nuclear and Radiological

• See also Chem-Bio section above

• Radiological Dispersal Devices -- Assessing the Transnational Threat, by Ford, NDU Strategic Forum paper 136

• Adversary Use of NBC Weapons: A Neglected Challenge, Strategic Forum No. 187

• Evaluating U.S. Air Force Nuclear Weapon Storage Area Security in the Post Cold-war Environment, ACSC paper

• Radiological Weapons of Terror, ACSC paper - discusses risk and consequence management

• Congressional Research Service (CRS)
  
  National Missile Defense and Alaska
  Terrorist Nuclear Attacks on Seaports: Threat and Response
  

• Medical Management of Radiological Casualties Handbook

Medical

• See First Response Medical

• See Chem-Bio section above

• Medical Aspects of Chemical and Biological Warfare,
  a published volume of the Textbook of Military Medicine

• Medical Management of Radiological Casualties Handbook

• Medical Management of Biological Casualties, U.S. Army Handbook

• Medical Management of Chemical Casualties Handbook

• The End of Stress As We Know It, 2002

• Online books from the Institute of Medicine (IOM)
  • Potential Radiation Exposure in Military Operations: Protecting the Soldier Before, During, and After, 1999
  • An Evaluation of Radiation Exposure Guidance for Military Operations: Interim Report, 1997
  • Caffeine for the Sustainment of Mental Task Performance: Formulations for Military Operations, 2001
  • Military Strategies for Sustainment of Nutrition and Immune Function in the Field, 1999
  • Nutritional Needs in Hot Environments: Applications for Military Personnel in Field Operations, 1993
  • Chemical and Biological Terrorism: Research and Development to Improve Civilian Medical Response, 1999
  • Preparing for Terrorism: Tools for Evaluating the Metropolitan Medical Response System Program, 2002
  • Biological Threats and Terrorism: Assessing the Science and Response Capabilities: Workshop Summary, 2002
  • Protecting Our Forces: Improving Vaccine Acquisition and Availability in the U.S. Military, 2002

  Anthrax

• CPC No. 10 - The Anthrax Vaccine Debate: A Medical Review for Commanders, by Hersack (PDF file)
• Davis, Col (Dr.) Jim, and Dr. Anna Johnson-Winegar , The Anthrax Terror: DOD's Number-One Biological Threat, Aerospace Power Journal, Winter 2000, (pp. 15-29) [html version] [pdf version]

  Smallpox

• CPC No. 9 - Smallpox: A Primer, by McEleney (.doc file) (PDF file)

Future War

• Future Warfare Anthology (local copy), 2001, Strategic Studies Institute - 6.5 Mb
• Technology and the 21st Century Battlefield: Recomplicating Moral Life for the Statesman and the Soldier (local copy), by Dunlap, 1999, for Strategic Studies Institute
• Internal Wars: Rethinking Problem and Response (local copy), 2001, Strategic Studies Institute

• Schneider, Barry R., and Lawrence E. Grinter, Eds., Battlefield of the Future: 21st Century Warfare Issues, No. 3 of the Air War College Studies in National Security
• Future War, Aerospace Campaigns in 2010, book by Barnett, AU Press

• CSAT No. 15 - Technology and Command: Implications for Military Operations in the Twenty-first Century [HTML] [DOC]
• CSAT No. 6 - Weaponization Of Space: Understanding Strategic and Technological Inevitabilities [HTML]

Asymmetric Warfare

• Can “AIRPOWER” Counter The Asymmetric Threat?, ACSC paper

• The Revenge of the Melians: Asymmetric Threats and the Next QDR (local copy), by McKenzie, a McNair paper -- discusses definition of asymmetrical warfare and ten possible asymmetric threats

• Preparing for Asymmetry: As Seen Through the Lens of Joint Vision 2020 (local copy), 2001 report for Strategic Studies Institute
• Asymmetry and U.S. Military Strategy: Definition, Background, and Strategic Concepts (local copy), by Metz and Johnson, Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, Jan 2001
• The New Craft of Intelligence: Achieving Asymmetric Advantage in the Face of Nontraditional Threats (local copy), by Steele, Feb 2002, for Strategic Studies Institute

Preemption

• See Preventive and Preemptive on the Military Law page

• Schneider, Barry R., Radical Responses to Radical Regimes: Evaluating Preemptive Counter-Proliferation, McNair Paper 41, May 1995 [local copy]

• Congressional Research Service (CRS)
  
  U.S. Use of Preemptive Military Force
  

Infowar

• CSAT No. 7 - Legal Constraints on Information Warfare

• Active Computer Network Defense: An Assessment, ACSC paper
• The Spectrum Of Cyber Conflict From Hacking To Information Warfare: What Is Law Enforcement's Role?, ACSC paper

Technology

• Technology and the 21st Century Battlefield: Recomplicating Moral Life for the Statesman and the Soldier (local copy), by Dunlap, 1999, for Strategic Studies Institute

  pdf

• CSAT No. 3 - Non-Lethal Technologies: Implications for Military Strategy [HTML]
• Maxwell Paper No. 16 - Seller Beware. US International Technology Transfer and Its Impact on National Security. (PDF file)

• Congressional Research Service (CRS)
  
  Terrorism: Automated Lookout Systems and Border Security Options and Issues
  

Intel & Analysis

• Psychology of Intelligence Analysis, by Heuer, CIA book - excellent reference on intelligence and critical thinking in general

• The New Craft of Intelligence: Achieving Asymmetric Advantage in the Face of Nontraditional Threats (local copy), by Steele, Feb 2002, for Strategic Studies Institute

• Congressional Research Service (CRS)
  
  Homeland Security: Intelligence Support
  Intelligence and Law Enforcement: Countering Transnational Threats to the U.S.
  Intelligence to Counter Terrorism: Issues for Congress