Volume 12 Issue 2 - Summer 2018 Published May 28, 2018 Strategic Studies Quarterly, Air University, Maxwell AFB, AL POLICY FORUM The 2018 National Defense Strategy: Continuity and Competition Kelly A. Grieco The 2018 NDS focuses on great power competition, but does it represent more continuity than change in the Trump administration's defense policies? The Trump Nuclear Posture Review: Three Issues, Nine Implications Stephen J. Cimbala Are we headed for a lower threshold between conventional war fighting and nuclear first use in Europe or Asia? FEATURE ARTICLE Attribution and Operational Art: Implications for Competing in Time Lt Col Garry S. Floyd Jr., USAF Should planners use a covert operations approach that better accounts for the attribution problems inherent to operations in the cyber domain? PERSPECTIVES Beyond the Tweets: President Trump’s Continuity in Military Operations Peter Dombrowski and Simon Reich Is President Trump’s approach to the use of military force characterized more by change or continuity compared to his predecessors? A New Security Framework for Geoengineering Elizabeth L. Chalecki and Lisa L. Ferrari Will geoengineering technologies have the potential to disrupt the global ecological status quo and mount a potentially coercive threat with implications as serious as those in wartime? Space Arms Control: A Hybrid Approach Brian G. Chow Can a treaty restricting positioning of satellites and authorizing preemptive self-defense create a less threatening space environment? BOOK REVIEWS The Logic of American Nuclear Strategy: Why Strategic Superiority Matters By: Matthew Kroenig Reviewed by: Todd C. Robinson Strategic Cyber Deterrence: The Active Cyber Defense Option By: Scott Jasper Reviewed by: Stephen Bucci US Foreign Policy and Defense Strategy: The Evolution of an Incidental Superpower By: Derek S. Reveron, Nikolas K. Gvosdev, and Mackubin Thomas Owens Reviewed by: LTC Kurt P. VanderSteen, USA, Retired Getting Nuclear Weapons Right By: Stephen J. Cimbala Reviewed by: Mel Deaile The President's Book of Secrets: The Untold Story of Intelligence Briefings to America’s Presidents from Kennedy to Obama By: David Priess Reviewed by: Damon Coletta Future War: Preparing for the New Global Battlefield By: Robert H. Latiff Reviewed by: Capt Sean E. Thompson, USAF Courting Science: Securing the Foundation of a Second American Century By: Damon V. Coletta Reviewed by: Lt Col Joe Bassi, PhD, USAF, Retired DOWNLOAD FULL EDITION
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