Military Review English Edition September-October 2016 | Page 6

TABLE OF CONTENTS
8 North Korean Collapse or 42 The Global Spread of Arms
Korean Reunification
The Link between State Collapse,
Small Arms Proliferation, and
Global Conflict

The Importance of Preparation
over Prediction

Bryan Port

2nd Lt. Josef Danczuk, U.S. Army

Preparing for the collapse of North Korea
or its reunification with South Korea is more
important than predicting the manner or
timing of those events. How the United States
responds to such occurrences will have a
tremendous impact on its future position in the
region and elsewhere.

The United States and its partners need a
strategy to prevent small arms and light weapons
proliferation from collapsed states in order to
protect global national security interests. The
author demonstrates this need by highlighting
events during the collapses of the Soviet Union in
1991 and Libya in 2011.

20 Strategic Acquisition for
Effective Innovation
Lt. Col. Rafael Rodriguez, U.S. Army
Maj. William Shoemate, U.S. Army
Maj. Justin Barnes, U.S. Army
Karen Burke

30 How America Will
Be Attacked
Irregular Warfare, the Islamic
State, Russia, and China
Dr. Sebastian Gorka
A noted counterinsurgency scholar provides
a primer on the roots of unconventional war
theories behind the current Islamic insurgency
being conducted by the Islamic State, Russia’s
current approach to warfare, and the
progress of Chinese unrestricted warfare.

51 Strategic Assessment of
Bolivia’s Defense Policy
Cristián Faundes

A team from the Chief of Staff of the Army
Strategic Studies Group recommends ways
to make the Army’s cumbersome acquisition
process more conducive to effective innovation.

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Bolivia is interested in expanding its territory by
reclaiming portions of the Pacific coast it ceded
to Chile as a result of a past war. The author
assesses Bolivia’s defense policy as it relates to its
geographical neighbors and its strategic objective
of reasserting this territorial claim.

60 Commanding the Right
Islamic Morality and
Why It Matters
Chaplain (Maj.) Seth H. George,
U.S. Army
The author introduces the Islamic moral and
legal obligation for “commanding the right and
forbidding the wrong,” describes how Islamic
extremists appeal to this duty to establish their
moral legitimacy, and offers recommendations
for Army leaders to succeed in dealings with our
Muslim partners.

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