• Cover for Contemporary Chemical Weapons Use in Syria and Iraq by the Assad Regime and the Islamic State

    By Dr Robert J Bunker

    Author: Dr Robert J BunkerView the Executive Summary This monograph focuses on an understudied, but yet a critically important and timely component of land warfare, related to the battlefield use of chemical weapons by contemporary threat forces. It will do so by focusing on two case studies related to chemical weapons use in Syria and Iraq by the

  • Armed Robotic Systems Emergence: Weapons Systems Life Cycles Analysis and New Strategic Realities

    By Dr Robert J Bunker

    Author: Dr Robert J BunkerView the Executive Summary Armed robotic systems—drones and droids—now emerging on the battlefield portend new strategic realities not only for U.S. forces but also for our allies and future potential belligerents. Numerous questions of immediate warfighting importance come to mind with the fielding of these drones and

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    By Dr Robert J Bunker

    Author: Dr Robert J BunkerView the Executive Summary This monograph creates a proposed insurgency typology divided into legacy, contemporary, and emergent and potential insurgency forms, and provides strategic implications for U.S. defense policy as they relate to each of these forms. The typology clusters, insurgency forms identified, and their

  • Terrorist and Insurgent Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Use, Potentials, and Military Implications

    By Dr Robert J Bunker

    Author: Dr Robert J BunkerView the Executive Summary This manuscript focuses on the present threat posed by terrorist and insurgent use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as well as associated future threat potentials. This work presents a counterintuitive analysis in the sense that armed drones are typically viewed as a component of America’s

  • By Dr Robert J Bunker

    Author: Dr Robert J Bunker The theme for the U.S. Army War College's Ninth Annual Strategy Conference (April 1998) is "Challenging the United States Symmetrically and Asymmetrically: Can America Be Defeated?" Dr. Robert J. Bunker of California State University, San Bernardino, answers the question with an emphatic "yes." He expounds a scenario in