Bøger af Christopher Paul

Using the principles of necessity, effectiveness, and proportionality, the authors develop a framework for evaluating influence operations with an initial screening, conducting a full ethical risk assessment, and preparing a justification statement.

An exhibition of poems about sex organized together for your self-pleasures, fantasies, and escapades from infrequent philosophical musings from the world's most influential authors. This collection of intellectual and often humorous reflections provides a fascinating insight into a vast exhibition of topics.

Welcome to Volume 2 of the Shahrazad Press short story anthology series. Shahrazad Press is a burgeoning local publishing group in Berkeley, CA, featuring contributors from around the San Francisco Bay Area and around the world. These 9 authors expressed the unifying theme of Loss and Recovery in unique and interesting ways. Most of the writers included in this volume have published a story in Volume 1 of the series, "My Keys Don't Know Where I Am," and new contributors include Jonathan Barber, Nicholas Black Darquia, and Dominic Mah. This volume also includes photography, drawings and illustrations as well. Happy Reading.

A short story anthology, including local authors Bay Area authors, as well as writers and artists from Mexico City.

An anthology of short stories all with the theme of "dreams and nightmares." Most of the writers are from the Bay Area of California, with two exceptions. Diego Caudillo is from Mexico and Ivan Parra Garcia is from Colombia. This is the fifth, and probably last, volume of short stories I will be publishing for a while. So, I hope you enjoy it!

Welcome to Volume #1 of the Shahrazad short story anthology series! In this small book, you will find stories as diverse as you could possibly imagine, all with the unifying theme of "Memory and Amnesia." I am very lucky to have talented writer friends both near and far who were willing to share their ideas on the subject. In these pages, you will meet a little girl who intentionally gets in trouble with her teacher in order to let her imagination run wild, a rather unusual living situation in a house that is more than a house, a man who explores his feelings and memories of a lost love through letter-writing, and much more. This is the first short story anthology by Shahrazad Press. For more information, please write to shahrazad.press@yahoo.com.

A detailed enumeration of activities, a synthesis of expert consensus on challenges to gray zone competition, and a dynamic menu of solutions can enhance the U.S. competitive position in the gray zone and beyond.

How would the world react if the existence of the human soul could be scientifically proven? Austin Cole is a young neural surgeon who makes an unusual discovery at Emory University's Neural Laboratory in Atlanta. The world quickly becomes interested in his findings and Cole soon finds himself pitted against the kings and gods of politics, science and religion. Yet things are not as they seem. An altered autopsy report, a double murder, an underworld figure with unlimited resources and a powerful political candidate all add to the swirling mystery and to a conclusion that will blow away the current understanding of man's place on earth!

This report presents a framework intended to help with planning for building partner capacity events, monitoring progress while the effort is in progress, and assessing results.

In recent years, the city of Delhi has had an explosive growth in terms of economy and Demography. Mostly through the In-Migration of people coming to Delhi for better employment opportunities. Many of them are from the poorer sections of society. Hence, there is a growing shortage of affordable housing in the city. The apex body Delhi Development Authority, has not been able to provide the it at the required rate, leading to shortage of planned and legal housing for the people. This study is to unravel the Real estate market in UACs of Delhi, the reasons of their growth and implications of the government policies on them. The Real estate market in these colonies is disintegrated and informal. Study is based on the parameters such as investment size, plot sizes, Liquidity of buying and selling period, Lock-in period, the FAR built-up. Other parameters include rental income, accommodation, tenure of the tenants, investment- post purchase and the Average rate of return.

This document presents the full ruleset for the Information Warfighter Exercise Wargame, which is used by the Marine Corps to provide training for aspects of operations in the information environment.

An examination of requirements, principles from military theory, current doctrine, and wargaming practices points to solutions and changes to game mechanics to better incorporate the information environment into wargames.

To support the U.S. Marine Corps and its curriculum for information operations personnel, RAND has adapted the premise of the military classic The Defence of Duffer's Drift for a modern-day audience of Marine Corps officers.

The U.S. Department of Defense has struggled to assess the progress and effectiveness of its information operations. Best practices across sectors can guide the assessment of these activities and ensure that they help meet national security goals.

This report explores what the United States can do in challenging capacity-building contexts to maximize prospects for success, focusing on potential challenges and workarounds and deriving recommendations for future engagements.

Over the past decade, especially, U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) intelligence has had to tailor its organization to meet the evolving demands of the operational environment. This has resulted in a number of ad hoc arrangements, practices, and organizations. A broad review of the organizational design of USMC intelligence examined how to align it efficiently and effectively with current and future missions and functions.

An Analysis of the relations between the military and the press explores the factors that led to the development fo the embedded press and distinguishedes the outcomes and goals for the the entitles and for the public, including the right to know.

Paul explores both how and why U.S. military intervention decisions are made. Pursuit of that inquiry requires the identification of decision participants, thorough examination of the decision making processes they employ, and recognition of several factors that influence intervention decisions: the national interest, legitimacy, and the legacies of previous policies. This book provides chapter length treatment of each of these issues. The research is based on detailed historical case studies for the four U.S. Marines on the beach military interventions in Latin America since World War II: The Dominican Republic (1965), Grenada (1983), Panama (1989), and Haiti (1994). Additional cases (notably Afghanistan and Iraq) enter the discussion when considering findings with broader implications.Of the existing theories of governance that compete to explain government policy making, Paul finds that elite theory provides the best general model for intervention decision making, but that the notions of both pluralist and class theorists contribute to a complete explanation, and sometimes in an unexpected way. Findings also indicate considerable contribution from and constraint by institutional sources. However, far from finding that institutional factors are wholly deterministic, this research offers support for a choice-within-constraints model. Conclusions suggest that top decision-makers (especially the president) enjoy wide latitude in framing the national interest and in choosing where to and where not to intervene.

This volume in the Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues series presents a concise introduction to the evolution, key concepts, discourse, and future options for improved strategic communication in today's U.S. government.

A no-nonsense treatment of information operations, this handbook makes clear what does and does not fall under information operations, how the military plans and executes such efforts, and what the role of IO ought to be in the war of ideas.