Studies In Future War

Essay assignment of 4 questions, 2 double-spaced (12-point text) pages (exclusive of bibliography).

Title Page: The title page must include the title (i.e., Final), name, course name and number, and professor’s name.

2.Table of Contents: The table of contents provides the section/topic (i.e., Essay 1) and page on which it begins (i.e., 1). The table of contents includes an entry for References too.

3.Turabian Bibliography format must be used throughout; thus, all footnotes must adhere to the appropriate format: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/turabian/turabian_citationguide.html. Note: footnotes are required; therefore, end notes are not acceptable.

4.The question is not to be repeated at the start of the essay.

Questions:

1. Assess the U.S. view of near- and long-term national security threats, as articulated in the 2010 National Security Strategy and the Secretary of Defense’s 2012 strategic guidance. In the process of doing so, analyze the extant and predicted threats to the international and national security environments.

2. Assess the U.S. view of near- and long-term national security threats, as articulated in the 2010 National Security Strategy and the Secretary of Defense’s 2012 strategic guidance. In the process of doing so, deconstruct the existing and predicted strategies to address the near- and long-term threats to the international and national security environments.

3. Assess how nation-states prepare for the next war or future conflict whether with nation-states or non-state actors. In the process doing so, evaluate the differences, as well as similarities, between wars and conflicts of the past, present and future

4. Assess the national security threat posed by trans-national criminal organizations. In the process of doing so, analyze the existing and predicted strategies to address the near- and long-term threats posed by trans-national criminal organizations.

Note: The first two questions require you to address two different issues; thus, the first two questions are not the same question.