TERRORISM: Commentary on Security Documents Volume 111 Discerning President Obama's National Security Strategy

Volume 111 of Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents, Discerning President Obama's National Security Strategy, makes available documents from the first fifteen months of the Obama administration that provide insights into its developing national security strategy. Included are documentsthat include detailed intelligence estimates and strategies as well as documents that outline important lessons regarding stability and reconstruction in Iraq. Additional documents provide valuable insight into the Obama Administration's Afghanistan and Pakistan Strategy. General Editor DouglasLovelace, an expert in U.S. military matters, elucidates the complexities of military spending and of counter-insurgency tactics.

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

A. INTELLIGENCE UNDERPINNINGS OF THE OBAMA NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY

Commentary by Douglas C. Lovelace, Jr., Esq.

DOCUMENT NO. 1: The National Intelligence Strategy of the United States of America, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Dennis C. Blair, Washington, D.C., August 2009

DOCUMENT NO. 2: Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Dennis C. Blair, Washington, D.C., February 2, 2010

B. LESSONS INFORMING THE OBAMA NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY

Commentary by Douglas C. Lovelace, Jr., Esq.

DOCUMENT NO. 3: Hard Lessons: the Iraq Reconstruction Experience, Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, Stuart W. Bowen, Jr., Washington, D.C., February 3, 2009

DOCUMENT NO. 4: Applying Iraq's Hard Lessons to the Reform of Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations, Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, Stuart W. Bowen, Jr., Washington, D.C., February 2010

C. THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION'S AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN STRATEGY

Commentary by Douglas C. Lovelace, Jr., Esq.

DOCUMENT NO. 5: White Paper of the Interagency Policy Group's Report on
U.S. Policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan, the White House, Washington, D.C., March 27, 2009

DOCUMENT NO. 6: Afghanistan and Pakistan Regional Stabilization Strategy, U.S. Department of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Washington, D.C., January 2010

D. OTHER INDICATORS OF PRESIDENT OBAMA'S NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY

Commentary by Douglas C. Lovelace, Jr., Esq.

DOCUMENT NO. 7: Summary of the White House Review of the December 25, 2009 Attempted Terrorist Attack, The White House, Washington, D.C., January 7, 2010

DOCUMENT NO. 8: Presidential Memorandum Regarding 12/25/2009 Attempted Terrorist Attack, The White House, Washington, D.C., January 7, 2010

DOCUMENT NO. 9: Department of Homeland Security: Actions Taken Toward Management Integration, but a Comprehensive Strategy Is Still Needed, United States Government Accountability Office report, Bernice Steinhardt and David C. Maurer, Washington, D.C., November 2009

DOCUMENT NO. 10: Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism Report Card, Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism, Washington, D.C., January 2010

DOCUMENT NO. 11: National Strategy for Countering Biological Threats, the White House, National Security Council, Washington, D.C., November 2009

DOCUMENT NO. 12: Ballistic Missile Defense Review Report, Office of the Secretary of Defense, United States Department of Defense, Robert M. Gates, February 2010

DOCUMENT NO. 13: The Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative, The White House, Washington, D.C., March 3, 2010

DOCUMENT NO. 14: Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative: Legal Authorities and Policy Considerations, Congressional Research Service Report, Washington, D.C., March 10, 2010

DOCUMENT NO. 15: Nuclear Posture Review Report, Office of the Secretary of Defense, United States Department of Defense, Robert M. Gates, April 2010

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