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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt The United States faces a "diverse set of security challenges"1 and a "wider range of adversaries" than any time in recent history.2 The international environment is characterized by significant instability, insecurity, and uncertainty and America faces substantial strategic challenges as it attempts to maintain an effective international presence in such an environment while facing mounting resource constraints. [...] American leaders must balance national desires, responsibilities, and ideals to meet America's strategic ends while harmonizing the ways and means at their disposal.
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The Building Partner Capacity Imperative
[Editor's note: The following is part one of a series of articles, which will appear in future editions of the DISAM Journal. Each is a part of the original document, a master's thesis prepared by the author for the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, (SAASS) at Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama.]
We have learned that we cannot live alone at peace. We have learned that our own well being is dependent on the well being of other nations far away. We have learned to be citizens of the world, members of the human community.President Franklin Delano RooseveltThe United States faces a "diverse set of security challenges"1 and a "wider range of adversaries" than any time in recent history.2 The international environment is characterized by significant instability, insecurity, and uncertainty and America faces substantial strategic challenges as it attempts to maintain an effective international presence in such an environment while facing mounting resource constraints. Thus, American leaders must balance national desires, responsibilities, and ideals to meet America's strategic ends while harmonizing the ways and means at their disposal. This task is especially difficult in a complex international context.Challenges in the international environment derive partly from significant insurgent activity and the corresponding weakening of nation states. The aim of an insurgency is "the overthrow of a constituted government through use of subversion and armed...See the full content of this document
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