Elliott School

Faculty Publications & Testimony

Reports 2005

The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami: Six-Month Report

Karl F. Inderfurth, Stephen P. Cohen, and graduate student David Fabrycky released a study on the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami titled “The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami: Six-Month Report,” in conjunction with Sigur Center for Asian Studies. The report includes information on tsunami relief contributors, how much money was spent, and how it was spent. It concludes that some governments are not following through on their pledges, and private donations are falling due to the waning interest.

The Okinawa Question and the U.S.-Japan Alliance

The Sigur Center for Asian Studies has just published a collection of papers written by American and Japanese specialists to examine how the post-9/11 strategic environment affects the U.S.-Japan Security Alliance and Okinawa. The report also seeks to incorporate the Okinawan perspective in considering the proper form of the alliance in the twenty-first century and the role of this alliance for Asia-Pacific security. While the contributors see the need to reduce the burden of U.S. military bases and forces in Okinawa, they also recognize the positive contribution of the U.S.-Japan Security Alliance for regional and international security.

Divided Diplomacy and the Next Administration :Conservative and Liberal Alternatives

Twenty-nine faculty members of the Elliott School have released a new report debating US foreign policy differences, which examines underlying liberal and conservative perspectives that inform policy differences between U.S. political parties and presidential candidates. The report elaborates these differences through overview papers on liberal and conservative grand strategies and more specific contributions covering a range of regional, bureaucratic and functional issues.

Bridging the Gap: European C4ISR Capabilities and Transatlantic Interoperability
by: Gordon Adams, Guy Ben-Ari, John Logsdon and Ray Williamson

American policy-makers tend to assume that the European militaries lack the capability to be reliable coalition partners in NATO or in coalitions of the willing, because they lack the high technology capabilities the US has deployed in its own forces. In this new, ground-breaking study, the authors argue that this assumption is based on a serious misperception of European technologies and deployed military capabilities. The authors of this study focused on the key technologies of modern "network-centric" warfare - C4ISR - Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance. Based on 18 months of research, with interviews in two allied countries (France and Britain), an examination of the technology and capabilities of three others (Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Sweden), and extensive discussions in NATO and the European Union, the study concludes that European C4ISR technology is comparable to that of the United States and that virtually every one of these countries is developing or deploying technologies that are or can be interoperable with the United States military. It concludes with a series of recommendations as to how further progress can be made on both sides of the Atlantic to enhance this interoperability.