Defense Management Challenges for the Next American President

The next American president will face a daunting list of national security problems, including a serious defense budget crunch. The budget crisis will be deepened by the global financial crisis, a tapering of supplemental funding associated with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the steady growth of military healthcare and other personnel costs. After six years of rapid defense budget increases, the Pentagon has lost the practice of matching strategy and resources. The next president will need to manage risk among investments in irregular warfare, counterterrorism, balancing new super powers, countering weapons of mass destruction, and traditional warfare. He will also need to begin to build non-military “soft power” capabilities outside of the Pentagon.     

Editorial

This fourth issue provides both a follow on from the debatesstarted in our first three editions and a specific theme, thepolicing of public disorder. Alongside terrorism, neighbourhoodpolicing and the use of force, we judged as we were planningthe first editions of this new journal that we should tacklefour of the big issues in policing. Unsurprisingly, given thatthey are such big issues, there are some common themes thatrun across all of them. The most substantial of these is accountabilityand oversight, which are covered in several of the articlesin this edition. In each of the previous editorials I have drawn on my own professionalcareer to provide comment and this editorial will be no exception.In the last quarter of century I have, in roles ranging froma     

Ein letztes (?) Mal: Zum Anwendungsbereich der Laesio-enormis-Vorschriften

Ohne Zusammenfassung     

荷兰的托管令

荷兰的托管令是一项针对犯罪精神病人的保安措施,其宗旨一方面在于保护社会免受犯罪精神病人的进一步侵害,另一方面则通过对犯罪精神病人的强制医疗,使其摆脱精神疾病,复归社会.由于托管令不是刑罚,它不具有刑罚的报复性和惩罚性.出于防卫社会的要求,托管令的期限是根据他人或公众人身财产安全的需要来确定的.     

COIN Machine: The British Military in Afghanistan

This article assesses the British military effort in Afghanistan looking at three key elements in the campaign: strategy, military operations, and the inter-agency “Comprehensive Approach.” We start by recognising the scale of the challenge that has faced the British: of all the provinces in Afghanistan, Helmand is the toughest to stabilize and secure. We then examine the evolution of all three elements above and find significant improvements in each: a flawed strategy has been corrected; the military have received more resources and become significantly better at COIN; and there is significant progress in the development of the inter-agency approach. In short, what the Americans will find in Helmand is a British COIN machine; a little creaky perhaps, but one that is fit for purpose and getting the job done. We briefly conclude on the prospects and the key to success: namely the development of a more coherent international strategy that accommodates the challenges posed by both Afghanistan and Pakistan.