Dr. Antulio J. Echevarria, II
- Position: Director of Research
- Area(s) of Expertise: History and Theory of Warfare; Nature of War; Future Warfare; Homeland Security; and European History
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Dr. Antulio J. Echevarria II became the Director of Research for the U.S. Army War College after a military career of 23 years. He has held a variety of command and staff assignments in Europe and the United States. Dr. Echevarria is the author of Clausewitz and Contemporary War (Oxford University Press, 2007); Imagining Future War (Praeger Securities International, 2007); and After Clausewitz (University Press of Kansas, 2001). He has also published extensively in scholarly and professional journals on topics related to military history and theory and strategic thinking. Dr. Echevarria is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, and the U.S. Army War College, and holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in history from Princeton University.
SSI Publications by Dr. Antulio J. Echevarria, II
- Added July 16, 2008
- Type: Book
- Key Strategic Issues List, July 2008.
- Edited by Dr. Antulio J. Echevarria, II.
- The Key Strategic Issues List gives researchers, whether military professionals or civilian scholars, a ready reference of those issues of particular interest to the Department of the Army and the Department of Defense. Its focus is strategic, rather than operational or tactical. Every year, the KSIL helps guide research efforts to the mutual benefit of the defense community and individual researchers.
- Added June 12, 2008
- Type: Monograph
- Wars of Ideas and the War of Ideas.
- Authored by Dr. Antulio J. Echevarria, II.
- The author discusses several types of wars of ideas so as to achieve a better understanding of what wars of ideas are.
- Added January 10, 2007
- Type: Monograph
- Challenging Transformation's Clichés.
- Authored by Dr. Antulio J. Echevarria, II.
- Critical thinkers analyze and refine ideas underpinning the foundation of American defense policy and military strategy today so the defense community can apply them in strategy and force development. This is an ongoing process: new ideas emerge, are tested, and adopted, revised, or discarded.
- Added July 17, 2006
- Type: Monograph
- 2006 Key Strategic Issues List (KSIL).
- Edited by Dr. Antulio J. Echevarria, II.
- In today’s dynamic strategic environment, political changes can become challenges very quickly. Any list of key strategic issues must, therefore, include the broadest array of regional and functional concerns. This is a catalogue of significant issues, arranged as potential research topics, of concern to U.S. policymakers. As such, the KSIL is a ready source of topics that members of the defense community and academia can use to focus their research efforts.
- Added November 01, 2005
- Type: Monograph
- Fourth-Generation War and Other Myths.
- Authored by Dr. Antulio J. Echevarria, II.
- Dr Antulio J. Echevarria II critiques the theory of fourth-generation warfare, examining its problematic assumptions and logical flaws. He argues that this theory is hopelessly flawed and that its proponents undermine their credibility by subscribing to it.
- Added July 01, 2005
- Type: Monograph
- 2005 Key Strategic Issues List (KSIL).
- Edited by Dr. Antulio J. Echevarria, II.
- The U.S. Army must maintain a strategic perspective—that it take advantage of the collective insights of scholars and senior-level students both within the defense community and beyond. The Key Strategic Issues List (KSIL), developed at the U.S. Army War College by SSI, helps the Army identify and bring together those insights.
- Added March 01, 2004
- Type: Monograph
- Toward an American Way of War.
- Authored by Dr. Antulio J. Echevarria, II.
- This monograph addresses trends in American strategic thinking to the war in Iraq. It argues that the American way of war is really a way of battle and offers some recommendations for change.
- Added October 01, 2003
- Type: Monograph
- From "Defending Forward" to a "Global Defense-In-Depth": Globalization and Homeland Security.
- Authored by Dr. Antulio J. Echevarria, II, Prof. Bert B. Tussing.
- The authors have examined the scope and substance of our National Security Strategy for Homeland Security (NSHS). Disturbingly, they find that the NSHS fails to address the challenges that globalization poses for the security of the American homeland.
- Added March 01, 2003
- Type: Monograph
- Globalization and the Nature of War.
- Authored by Dr. Antulio J. Echevarria, II.
- Globalization—the spread of information and information technologies, along with greater public participation in economic and political processes—is transforming every aspect of human affairs. What is not yet clear, however, are the impacts of these trends, especially how they might affect the nature of war. This monograph argues that the Clausewitzian trinity—hostility, chance, purpose—is still a valid way of looking at the nature of war in the 21st century.
- Added September 01, 2002
- Type: Monograph
- Clausewitz's Center of Gravity: Changing Our Warfighting Doctrine--Again!.
- Authored by Dr. Antulio J. Echevarria, II.
- The center of gravity concept has long been hailed by the U.S. military as the cornerstone of the operational art; yet, the term has many different meanings. In going back to the original concept, the author reveals that Clausewitz intended the center of gravity to function much as its counterpart in the mechanical sciences, that is, as a focal point—as the one element within a combatant's entire structure or system that has the necessary centripetal force to hold that structure together.
- Added November 01, 2001
- Type: Book
- Rapid Decisive Operations: An Assumptions-Based Critique.
- Authored by Dr. Antulio J. Echevarria, II.
- The author argues that, while those who developed the concept of rapid decisive operations (RDO) deserve high praise for attempting to link two relative properties—speed and decisiveness—the definition of RDO is at present incoherent and based on several deeply flawed assumptions. He goes on to recommend a method—which he calls Assumption-based Concept Development—for identifying and addressing an operational concept's critical assumptions.
- Added September 01, 2001
- Type: Book
- Toward a Strategy of Positive Ends.
- Authored by Dr. Antulio J. Echevarria, II, Brigadier General (Ret.) Huba Wass de Czege.
- Brigadier General (Retired) Huba Wass de Czege and Lieutenant Colonel Antulio J. Echevarria II make a case for a strategy aimed at achieving positive, rather than neutral or negative, ends. They first discuss the dynamic conditions of the new strategic environment, then explore the options the United States has available for dealing with those conditions. The options include (1) preventive defense, (2) neo-isolationism, and (3) a strategy that pursues positive ends.
- Added March 01, 2001
- Type: Book
- The Army and Homeland Security: A Strategic Perspective.
- Authored by Dr. Antulio J. Echevarria, II.
- The topic of homeland security includes a broad array of missions and mission areas ranging from national missile defense to military assistance to civil authorities. The topic has recently attracted a great deal of attention due to the public's heightened awareness of the variety and nature of emerging threats and of the United States vulnerabilities to them. The Army Staff was assigned to investigate the Army's role in homeland security from a strategic, rather than a legal or procedural perspective.
SSI Reports and Editorials by Dr. Antulio J. Echevarria, II
- Added October 02, 2009
- Type: Op-Ed
- War's Second Grammar.
- Authored by Dr. Antulio J. Echevarria, II.
- Each month a member of the SSI faculty writes an editorial for our monthly newsletter. This is the Op-Ed for the October 2009 newsletter.
- Added October 01, 2008
- Type: Op-Ed
- Dueling Natures.
- Authored by Dr. Antulio J. Echevarria, II.
- Each month a member of the SSI faculty writes an editorial for our monthly newsletter. This is the Op-Ed for the October 2008 newsletter.
- Added November 03, 2006
- Type: Op-Ed
- Transformation's Uncontested Truths.
- Authored by Dr. Antulio J. Echevarria, II.
- Each month a member of the SSI faculty writes an editorial for our monthly newsletter. This is the Op-Ed for the November 2006 newsletter.
- Added February 01, 2005
- Type: Op-Ed
- The Problem with Fourth-Generation War.
- Authored by Dr. Antulio J. Echevarria, II.
- Each month a member of the SSI faculty writes an editorial for our monthly newsletter. This is the Op-Ed for the February 2005 newsletter.
- Added January 01, 2004
- Type: Op-Ed
- An American Way of War or a Way of Battle?.
- Authored by Dr. Antulio J. Echevarria, II.
- Each month a member of the SSI faculty writes an editorial for our monthly newsletter. This is the Op-Ed for the January 2004 newsletter.