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From NDU Press Issue 61, 2d Quarter 2011 PRISM❖ Vol. 2, no. 2 03/2011 PRISM A Journal of the Center for Complex Operations PRISM JFQ PRISM 2, no. 2 (March 2011) offers the most content ever, including the following Feature articles: Professor Mary Kaldor on “human security” in complex operations; Ambassador Nancy Soderberg on enhancing U.S. support for UN peacekeeping; Colonel Eric Jorgensen on the “Interagency”; Dr. Vol. 2, no. 2 2, no. Vol. James Orton and Dr. Christopher Lamb on interagency national security teams; Admiral James ❖ 03/2011 Stavridis on the Comprehensive Approach in Afghanistan; Rear Admiral Brian Losey on conflict prevention in East Africa; Dr. Roger Myerson on state-building; Major General (Ret.) Michael Smith www.ndu.edu A JOURNAL OF THE CENTER FOR COMPLEX OPERATIONS and Rebecca Shrimpton on an Australian perspective of nation-building; Major Rebecca Patterson and Jonathan Robinson on changing CERP practices; and General Norton Schwartz on airpower in counterinsurgency and stability operations. From the Field articles include Dr. James Schear, Lieutenant General William Caldwell IV, and Frank DiGiovanni on ministerial advisors; and David Becker and Robert Grossman-Vermaas on measuring Haiti stabilization. Operational Cyber Lessons Learned articles include Jessica Lee and Maureen Farrell on civil-military operations in Kenya and Lieutenant General Ranier Glatz on a German perspective of ISAF. Finally, there is an interview with General William Ward on U.S. Africa Command. PRISM explores, promotes, and debates emerging thought and best practices as civilian capacity increases in Expeditionary Economics order to address challenges in stability, reconstruction, security, counterinsurgency, and irregular warfare. CENTER FOR Published by NDU Press for the Center for Complex Operations, PRISM welcomes articles on a broad range COMPLEX OPERATIONS of complex operations issues, especially civil-military integration. Manuscript submissions should be between An Islamic Way of War? DIPLOMACY • DEFENSE • DEVELOPMENT 2,500 and 6,000 words and sent via email to [email protected]. JOINT FORCE QUARTERLY JOINT FORCE Last Call for Entries for the 2011 Secretary of Defense National Security Strategy Essay Competition and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff National Defense and Military Strategy Essay Competition Are you a Joint Professional Military Education (JPME) When: Colleges are responsible for running their own student? 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AND HAYS Expeditionary Business in the 21st Century Spacepower 39 Toward a Theory of Toward This volume is a product of the efforts of the Institute for National Strategic edited by Charles D. Lutes and Peter L. Hays, with Vincent A. Manzo, Lisa M. Yambrick, This is the official U.S. Department of Defense By Robert E. Love and Steve R. Geary Studies Spacepower Theory Project Team, which was tasked by the Selected Essays Department of Defense to create a theoretical framework for examining edition of JFQ. Any copyrighted portions of this spacepower and its relationship to the achievement of national objectives. and M. Elaine Bunn The team was charged with considering the space domain in a broad and Savings and the Defense Logistics Enterprise holistic way, incorporating a wide range of perspectives from U.S. and EDITE D BY CHARLE S D . L UTE S AND PE T E R L . 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