AJAX - Access to U.S. and international government military and intelligence agencies.
America's Defense Monitor (ADM) - Video and links that present a balance of facts and commentary on military and foreign relations issues.
Armed Forces Journal - A monthly journal for American military officers and leaders in government and industry.
Army Emergency Relief (AER) - AER is a private nonprofit organization incorporated in 1942 by the Secretary of War and the Army Chief of Staff. AER's sole mission is to help soldiers and their dependents.
Army Financial Management - The Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management & Comptroller), exercises the comptroller functions of the Department of the Army and advises the Secretary of the Army on financial management.
Border Security and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [.pdf] - The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to improve border security is a technique that has garnered congressional attention. This report examines the strengths and limitations of deploying UAVs along the borders and related issues for Congress. This report is not intended to provide in-depth information regarding technical or military capabilities of UAVs, but to discuss their application at the border.
BosniaLINK - The official DoD information system about U.S. military activities in Operation JOINT FORGE, the NATO peacekeeping mission in Bosnia.
Carroll Publishing - Detailed information on all federally funded defense programs. Contact information for over 10,000 key personnel at over 1,300 U.S. defense contracting firms.
Center for Economic Conversion (CEC) - Focuses on sustainability and sustainable economic development issues, including green conversion strategies for the closure of military bases.
Center for Army Lessons Learned (U.S.) - Collects and analyzes data from a variety of current and historical sources, including Army operations and training events, and produces lessons for military commanders, staff, and students.
Center for Defense Information (CDI) - Dedicated to strengthening security through: international cooperation; reduced reliance on unilateral military power to resolve conflict; reduced reliance on nuclear weapons; a transformed and reformed military establishment; and, prudent oversight of, and spending on, defense programs.
Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance -
A direct reporting unit to the U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM) and other US COCOMs (combatant commands) and supports them in promoting disaster preparedness and societal resiliency. The Center also provides strategic advice to military, civilian and international organizations planning for and responding to complex humanitarian emergencies.
Center for Strategic and International Studies - Provides strategic insights and bipartisan policy solutions to decision makers in government, international institutions, the private sector, and civil society.
Overseas Civilian Contractors - Information and discussion of issues important to civilian contractors working overseas.
Col. L Fletcher Prouty Reference Site - Focal point where researchers can locate and retrieve articles, books, videos, and tapes on a variety of subjects which Prouty has written and participated in.
Committee Opposed to Militarism and the Draft (COMD) - An anti-militarism organization that challenges the military, its effect on society, its budget, its role abroad and at home, and the racism, sexism and homophobia inherent in the armed forces and Selective Service System. COMD activities include community education, direct action youth outreach, and Draft Notices, COMD's bimonthly printed newsletter.
Congressional Medal of Honor Society - The highest award for valor in action against an enemy force which can be bestowed upon an individual serving in the Armed Services of the United States.
Costs of War - The goal of the Costs of War project has been to outline a broad understanding of the domestic and international costs and consequences of the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan. Documented by the Eisenhower Study Group at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies.
Counterinsurgency Operations [FMI 3-07.22] - This FMI establishes doctrine for military operations in a counterinsurgency environment. It is based on existing doctrine and lessons learned from recent combat operations.
Defense and the National Interest - Fostering debate on the roles of the U.S. armed forces in the post-Cold War era and on the resources devoted to them.
Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) - DeCA operates a worldwide chain of nearly 280 commissaries to provide groceries to U.S. military personnel, retirees and their families.
Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) - Responsible for performing all contract audits for the Department of Defense, and providing accounting and financial advisory services regarding contracts and subcontracts to all DoD components responsible for procurement and contract administration.
Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) - Created to reduce the cost of U.S. Defense Department finance and accounting operations and to strengthen financial management through consolidation of finance and accounting activities across the department.
Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) - DISA's mission is to plan, engineer, develop, test, manage programs, acquire, implement, operate, and maintain information systems for C4I and mission support under all conditions of peace and war.
Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) - Provides financial and technical assistance, transfer of defense matériel, training and services to allies, and promotes military-to-military contacts.
Defense Tech - Exploring the future of the military, law enforcement, and national security.
DefenseLINK (DoD) - Official site of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Also see DoD Web Sites, the DefenseLINK's portal to the Department of Defense on the World Wide Web.
DoD Inspector General - Responsible for conducting, supervising, monitoring and initiating audits and investigations relating to programs and operations of the Department of Defense.
DOD Issuances - A DOD Directive (DOD Issuances) is a broad policy document containing what is required by legislation, the President, or the Secretary of Defense to initiate, govern, or regulate actions or conduct by the DoD Components within their specific areas of responsibilities. Search current issuances.
FAS Military Analysis Network - An introduction to the U.S. military: weapon systems, military operations, military exercises, interservice comparisons, Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, DoD/Joint.
Fast Attacks and Boomers - Submarines in the cold war, nuclear submarines, submarines today and in the future.
Find It Page - Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) directory of web sites generated, maintained, and hosted by the DTIC.
Frequency of ELF Transmissions - From The Physics Factbook. Extremely Low Frequencies (ELF) transmissions are electromagnetic waves used mainly for naval strategic communications. In general, the frequency of ELF waves range from 3 Hz to 3000 Hz. This particular range is important because of its capability in providing a communication system for submerged submarines during covert operations.
From Space Platforms to Electronic Warfare - A space platform consisting of a drone for launching weapons systems, a hypersonic attack aircraft, cruise missiles and vehicles for launching or repairing satellites or acting against enemy bases in space. Science fiction? No. This is all part of the United States' arms programme. Article from Le Monde diplomatique, Feb. 1998.
From Wounded Knee to Libya: A Century of U.S. Military Interventions - An extensive listing in chronlogical order of U.S. military interventions from 1890 to present. Among sources used, beside news reports, are the Congressional Record (23 June 1969), 180 Landings by the U.S. Marine Corp History Division, Ege & Makhijani in Counterspy (July-Aug, 1982), "Instances of Use of United States Forces Abroad, 1798-1993" by Ellen C. Collier of the Library of Congress Congressional Research Service, and Ellsberg in Protest & Survive.
GlobalSecurity.org - Background information and developing news stories in the fields of defense, space, intelligence, WMD, and homeland security.
Gulf War Veteran Resource Pages - Aids Gulf War veterans and their families worldwide. The site features a comprehensive document archive, locator database, testimonial stories, photo gallery, Gulf War Syndrome informaion, and more.
Gyre.org - Tracking the breakthroughs and implications of the next military and technological revolutions.
Information Warfare Site (IWS) - An online resource that aims to stimulate debate on issues involving information security, information operations, computer network operations, homeland security and more.
Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) - Research and policy relevant studies on all aspects of defence and security. IDSA is funded by the Indian Ministry of Defence. It functions autonomously.
International Crisis Group - An independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict.
International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) - A primary source of accurate, objective information on international strategic issues for politicians and diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business, economists, the military, defence commentators, journalists, academics and the informed public. IISS publications are read by key decision -makers and are commented upon within governments at cabinet level. They include the authoritative annual The Military Balance, an inventory of the world’s armed forces; the online Armed Conflict Database; Strategic Survey, an annual retrospective of the year’s political and military trends; the Adelphi series of books which provides in-depth analysis of general strategic issues; Survival: Global Politics and Strategy, an international relations journal; and Strategic Comments, containing short briefings on breaking strategic issues. There are also occasional publications such as the IISS Strategic Dossier range.
Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) - Sponsors programs and research aimed at influencing security policy makers, military officials, diplomats, and the defense community at large as to Israeli security needs.
Joint Surveillance and Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) - A joint development project of the U.S. Air Force and Army which provides an airborne, stand-off range, surveillance and target acquisition radar and command and control centre.
Marine Corps Center for Lessons Learned - Collects, analyzes, manages and disseminates knowledge gained through operational experiences, exercises, and supporting activities.
Missile.index - A database of the world's missile systems.
MQ-1B Predator - A medium-altitude, long-endurance, unmanned aircraft system The MQ-1B's primary mission is interdiction and conducting armed reconnaissance against critical, perishable targets. When the MQ-1 is not actively pursuing its primary mission, it acts as the Joint Forces Air Component Commander-owned theater asset for reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition in support of the Joint Forces commander.
MQ-9 Reaper - A medium-to-high altitude, long endurance unmanned aircraft system. The MQ-9's primary mission is as a persistent hunter-killer against emerging targets to achieve joint force commander objectives. The MQ-9's alternate mission is to act as an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance asset, employing sensors to provide real-time data to commanders and intelligence specialists at all levels.
National Security Archive - An independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University, the Archive collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The Archive also serves as a repository of government records on a wide range of topics pertaining to the national security, foreign, intelligence, and economic policies of the United States.
Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) - NCIS is the primary law enforcement and counterintelligence arm of the U.S. Department of the Navy. It works closely with other local, state, federal, and foreign agencies to counter and investigate the most serious crimes: terrorism, espionage, computer intrusion, homicide, rape, child abuse, arson, procurement fraud, and more.
National Gulf War Resource Center (NGWRC) - International coalition providing information, support, and referrals for all those concerned with the complexities of Persian Gulf War issues, especially Gulf War illnesses and those held prisoner or missing in action.
Naval Safety Center - Provides safety assistance to enhance the warfighting capability of the Navy and Marine Corps, preserve resources and improve combat readiness by preventing mishaps and saving lives.
Naval War College Library - Works in all fields of knowledge are included in the collection, but the principal concentration is a specialized area of interest in the naval profession: naval and military science, history and strategy, management, economics, international relations, international law, oceanography, and contemporary world problems.
Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) - NMCI is intended to develop a long-term arrangement with the commercial sector which transfers the responsibility and risk for providing and managing the vast majority of Department of the Navy (DON) desktop, server, infrastructure and communication assets and services.
Okinawa Peace Network of Los Angeles - A network of individuals and organizations working in solidarity with the people of Okinawa (including the other Ryukyu Islands) in their struggle to remove the U.S. military presence there and to dismantle militarism worldwide.
Olive-Drab - Over fifteen-hundred pages of military photos and information resources. Military jeeps, HMMWVs, trucks, tanks, weapons and ammunition, rations, uniforms, web gear and field equipment, electronics, history, books & videos, and more. From World War II through Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War and the wars of the 21st Century.
Pakistani Defence - Information on current defense issues from Pakistan and India. Defence news, missile and nuclear programs, articles.
Pentagon Military Analyst Program: Documents - Links to text-searchable versions of the released documents regarding the Pentagon military analyst program.
The Pentagon military analyst program was launched in early 2002 by then-Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Victoria Clarke. The idea was to recruit "key influentials" to help sell a wary public on "a possible Iraq invasion." Former NBC military analyst Kenneth Allard called the effort "psyops on steroids."
Private Military Corporations (Sourcewatch) - Private military corporations, private military firms, private security companies, military services providers, the privatized military industry are all attempts to label the phenomena of private companies offering services on the world market that have normally been duties of national military forces or involve armed security detail for business in unstable regions. Every service caters to security, and the growing need for security in a world wrought with differing economic, strategic, and military interests has provided a marketplace that is rapidly expanding. These services include risk advisory, training of local forces, armed site security, cash transport, intelligence services, workplace and building security, war zone security needs, weapons procurement, personnel and budget vetting, armed support, air support, logistical support, maritime security, cyber security, weapons destruction, prisons, surveillance, psychological warfare, propaganda tactics, covert operations, close protection and investigations.
Project on Defense Alternatives (PDA) - Although PDA emphasizes the reformulation of U.S. defense policy, it has contributed since its inception to the development of defense alternatives for NATO and pioneered proposals for the "defensive restructuring" of armed forces in Eastern Europe, Russia, and the developing world.
Return of the Fallen - In response to Freedom of Information Act requests and a lawsuit, the Pentagon in April 2005, released hundreds of previously secret images of casualties returning to honor guard ceremonies from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars and other conflicts, confirming that images of their flag-draped coffins are rightfully part of the public record, despite its earlier insistence that such images should be kept secret.
School of the Americas Watch (SOA Watch) - Seeks to close the U.S. Army School of the Americas, under whatever name it is called, through vigils and fasts, demonstrations and nonviolent protest, as well as media and legislative work.
SearchMil.com - Search engine with over 900,000 military pages indexed and ranked in order of popularity.
SERE - An acronym for Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape, is a U.S. military program that provides personnel, Department of Defense civilians and contractors with training in evading capture, survival skills and the military code of conduct. Established by the Air Force at the end of the Korean War, it was extended during the Vietnam War to the Army and Navy. Most of its students are aircrew.
Small Wars Council - Forum concerned with small wars, counterinsurgency, military defense and intervention.
Society of Military Widows - Serves the interests of women whose husbands died while on active military duty of a service-connected illness, during disability, or in regular retirement from the armed forces.
Soldiers for the Truth (SFTT) - Founded by Col. David H. Hackworth, USA (Ret), an organization of citizens and veterans pursuing issues confronting U.S. Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coastguardsmen in regard to their training, welfare, benefits, equipment and leadership.
Space Policy Project - Provides information and analysis on civil and military space issues, policies and programs.
Special Operations.com - A wide-ranging gathering of Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict (SO/LIC) related topics.
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) - Applications for synthetic aperture radar include reconnaissance, surveillance, and targeting. These applications are driven by the military's need for all-weather, day-and-night imaging sensors.
Today's Military - A resource for parents, educators and young adults curious about military services.
U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI) - The Air Force's major investigative service since 1948. The agency reports to the Inspector General, Office of the Secretary of the Air Force. Its primary responsibilities are criminal investigations and counterintelligence services.
U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) - The purpose of CMA is to protect and safely store the nation's aging chemical weapons, while working toward the effective recovery, treatment and ultimate elimination of the nation's chemical warfare materiel and to enhance national security.
U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command (CID) - CID collects, analyzes, processes and disseminates criminal intelligence; conducts protective service operations; provides forensic laboratory support to all DoD investigative agencies, and maintains Army criminal records. CID also provides criminal investigative support to all U.S. Army elements and deploys on short notice in support of contingency operations worldwide.
U.S. Army Field Support Command (FSC) - The Command plays a critical role in supporting the Army's Global Prepositioning Strategy in support of the deploying forces. Its prepositioning role provides the vital link in the Army's Strategic Mobility Triad of airlift, sealift, and global prepositioning. Headquartered at Rock Island, Illinois.
U.S. Army Military District of Washington - Conducts official ceremonies and public events, locally and world-wide, on behalf of the Nation's civilian and military leaders.
U.S. Army Soldier Systems Center (Natick) - Army's one-stop soldier-support organization. Natick is responsible for researching, developing, fielding, and managing food, clothing, shelters, airdrop systems, and soldier support items.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security - Three primary missions: Prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, reduce America's vulnerability to terrorism, and minimize the damage from potential attacks and natural disasters.
U.S. Selective Service System - Draft registration continues in the U.S. as a key component of its security strategy. Now you can register for the draft online.
U.S. Special Operations -
Detailed information, features, articles and photos of America's special operations forces such as Delta Force, Navy Seals, Special Forces, and Rangers.
U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) - Tasked with the coordination of people and transportation assets to allow the U.S. to project and sustain forces wherever needed.
UAV Forum - Coverage of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs).
Veterans for Peace (VFP) - Veterans from World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War, other conflicts working together for peace and justice through non-violence.
Vieques Libre - News, campaigns, articles, history, and resources concerning protests against U.S. military forces war practices, exercises and other activities on the island of Vieques in Puerto Rico.
War Resisters Support Campaign - Calls on the Canadian government to demonstrate its commitment to international law and the treaties to which it is a signatory, by making provision for US war objectors to have sanctuary in Canada.
Washington Headquarters Services (WHS) - Provides a wide range of administrative and operational services that enable DoD components and OSD to accomplish shared mission of supporting the Secretary of Defense.
War, Peace and Security Server - Extensive international resources maintained at the Canadian Forces College. Catalogue of books, reports, periodicals and videos held by the Information Resource Centre. Comprehensive guide to military and defence-related resources on the Internet. Access to periodical indexes, full-text periodicals and defence publications. Access to full-text doctrine websites.
War Times Journal Portal - Military resource for researchers, hobbyists, military professionals and all others with an interest in military history, science and defense.
World Navies Today - A database of all the world's navies and naval ships.
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