Dan Barbuto Special guest from Combined Arms Research Library (CARL)

● Info and how to access it for our research papers

● Cold Email someone when you have a focused question on your research question

● My paper topic ideas:

○ How rampant is corruption in the military? Patronage, other aspects, especially in

promotion. Is it biased? How so?

○ Interaction between branches

○ How did counterinsurgency methods develop from vietnam to current times

● AULS

● CARL homepage

○ Resources

■ Digital library

○ Many have primary sources

○ Counterinsurgency or COIN has been focus of military for past 20 years

■ Iraq and Afghanistan, much more than Vietnam but we had abandoned it

○Near peer adversaries→ China, Russia, sometimes N Korea or Iran

○LISCO → more planned wars

○ There are sections that are papers written by students that they teach over there

getting masters degrees

■ Check abstract to see if its related

■ Bibliography should be second place you look in any paper

● Can pull sources from there instead of rehashing what they wrote

in their own opinion

■ Helps u find if u want to read the paper and then if you can use stuff that

was in the paper

○ Operational Leadership experiences

■ Primary sources with leaders from Iraq and Afghanistan

○ APD has like all the stuff in use right now

○ Subject List has a ton of stuff too

● A lot of the ThinkTanks have many writings for US military

○ Rand (big one), AEI, CSIS, ISS, Brookings, ISW, etc)

Class 6 (Dan Barbuto) - Lecture notes 6

The United States Military (PSCI 2235)