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Martin Libicki is a Senior Fellow, Institute for National Strategic Studies, where he specializes in the application of information technology to national security and other worldscale applications.


INSS publishes McNair Papers to provoke thought and inform discussion on issues of U.S. national security in the post-Cold War era. These monographs present current topics related to national security strategy and policy, defense resource management, international affairs, civil-military relations, military technology, and joint, combined, and coalition operations.

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