Special Issue
on Strategic Culture
The articles collected for the special issue demonstrate a range of ways in which the study of strategic culture delivers critical insights to policy planners and strategists. Understanding other great powers on their own terms—the identities they seek to establish or defend, the values that inform their policies, the norms of strategic competition or warfighting that they deem acceptable and effective, and the worldview they espouse (whether an accurate fit with objective realities or not)—prepares policy makers to craft plans and strategies in ways that are tailored for maximum advantage vis-a-vis a particular adversary. Given the steady shutdown of cultural inquiry labs and training facilities across the U.S. defense and security community, it is worth issuing a stern reminder that the advantage of knowing one’s enemy is far more consequential when engaged in great power conflict than in the irregular conflicts in which U.S. institutions have learned its worth.
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STRATEGIC CULTURE
AND GREAT POWER COMPETITION
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An Iranian Worldview: Strategic Culture of the Islamic Republic
Ali Parchami, DPhil
The Russian Mindset and War: Between Westernizing the East and Easternizing the West
Ofer Fridman, PhD
China's Identity through a Historical Lens
Neil Munro, PhD
The Strategic Culture of Resistance: Iranian Strategic Influence
in its Near Abroad
W. A. Rivera, PhD
Moscow's Strategic Culture: Russian Militarism
Major Evan Kerrane, USA, PhD
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STRATEGIC CULTURE AND PARTNERS
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"We Must Protect this Peace with Our Hands" Strategic Culture and
Japan's Use of Force in International Disputes as Depicted in Ministry of Defense Manga Promotional Materials
Matthew Brummer, PhD; and Eitan Oren, PhD
The United Arab Emirates as a Case Study in Assessing
Over–the–Horizon Nuclear Proliferation
Katie C. Finlinson
The Foundations of Pakistan's Strategic Culture: Fears of an Irredentist India, Muslim Identify, Martial Race, and Political Realism
Mark Briskey, PhD
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STRATEGIC CULTURE AND POLICY SOLUTIONS
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Structuring Cultural Analyses: Applying the Holistic Will-to-Fight Models
Ben Connable, PhD
Unrecognized Republic, Recognizable Consequences: Russian Troops in “Frozen” Transnistria
Benjamin Potter
Lord’s Resistance Army Culture Provides Opening to Prevent Attacks
and Advance Humanitarian Efforts
Emilee Matheson
Deterring Russian Nuclear Threats with Low-Yield Nukes May Encourage Limited Nuclear War
Jeffrey Taylor
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