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076018
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NATO's "Open-Door" policy continues to generate much enthusiasm from aspiring countries across eastern and southern Europe. This paper examines Croatia's efforts to meet NATO's membership standards and assesses its reforms and policy changes across three issue areas, including civil-military relations, military modernization, and recent foreign policy directions. Our research suggests that Croatia has made significant improvements in moving toward NATO's political and military standards. While it still faces reform challenges due to its historical legacy under Franjo Tudjman and low public approval ratings for NATO, recent policy developments still indicate that NATO's willingness to expand produces a powerful incentive for ongoing reform.
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076017
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2006.
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Special Operations Forces (SOF) have transitioned from a marginalized force structure to a prominent part of U.S. military strategy. The gradual increase in status for SOF has been a long road. Historically, conventional military leaders have been skeptical of SOF and reluctant to use such forces. Political leaders, in contrast, have traditionally had an almost intuitive understanding of the capabilities and potential benefit of SOF. For the first time, military and political leaders are both convinced of the value of SOF. This shift has occurred for several factors: a dramatic change in the security environment marked by irregular threats, the declaration of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), and the conduct of SOF in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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076020
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2006.
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In achieving their own political goals, states-including great powers-have looked to political exiles (people residing outside of their home country who harbor political grievances with those who are currently in power "back home") and their respective organizations as instruments of grand strategy. Historically, states have used exiles in three ways: (1) intelligence collection, (2) recruitment and execution of paramilitary operations, and (3) information operations. The article details how internal organizational splits, differences of strategic culture, and competing thoughts about overall political goals can make the grand-strategic use of exiles a complex endeavor.
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076019
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