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12-527: The main purpose of FMSO is to conduct analysis relating to foreign military and security studies based upon open source research. FMSO's publications are available on its web site, and its researchers publish in many professional military and academic journals, where their products can be assessed in the market place of ideas. Originally created by LTG William Richardson, TRADOC Commander, as the Soviet Army Studies Office in 1986, SASO's first director

24-647: A nuclear weapon. 39°21′05″N 94°54′54″W  /  39.35139°N 94.91500°W  / 39.35139; -94.91500 This United States Army article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . David Glantz David M. Glantz (born January 11, 1942) is an American military historian known for his books on the Red Army during World War II and as the chief editor of The Journal of Slavic Military Studies . Born in Port Chester , New York , Glantz received degrees in history from

36-563: A review about his book on Operation Mars , criticized him for some of his stylistic choices, such as hypothetical thoughts and feelings of historical figures apart from references to documented sources. Jonathan Haslam Jonathan Haslam (born 15 January 1951) is George F. Kennan Professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and Professor of

48-583: The Virginia Military Institute and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . He is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College , Defense Language Institute , Institute for Russian and Eastern European Studies, and U.S. Army War College . Glantz had a career of more than 30 years in the U.S. Army , served in the Vietnam War , and retired as a colonel in 1993. Glantz

60-535: The History of International Relations at the University of Cambridge with a special interest in the former Soviet Union . He has written many books about Soviet foreign policy and ideology . Haslam studied at the London School of Economics (B.Sc.Econ 1972), Trinity College, Cambridge (M.Litt. 1978), and was awarded his Ph.D. at the University of Birmingham in 1984. He has lectured at many institutions including:

72-566: The University of Birmingham 1975–1984; Johns Hopkins University , 1984–1986; University of California, Berkeley , 1987–1988; King's College, Cambridge , 1988–1992; Yale University 1996; Harvard University , 2001; Stanford University , 1986–1987, 1994, 2005; and the University of Cambridge 1991–2015. Haslam joined the faculty of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study on July 1, 2015. Most of Haslam's works deal with

84-474: The government of Saddam Hussein, seized during the Iraq invasion in 2003 for the purposes of Document Exploitation (DOCEX) . However, in early November 2006, the entire set of documents was apparently removed. Media reports stated that the website was taken offline because the documents included sophisticated diagrams and other information detailing nuclear weapon design that could be useful to anyone wishing to construct

96-577: The history of the Soviet Union. During his tenure at the University of Cambridge, he wrote: "My first political memory was the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. It was the only time I saw my father afraid as he thought it entirely possible–through his London contacts–that we would all be blown up. Now I know how close we came. I have thus spent most of my life in pursuit of an explanation for the Cold War by focusing on

108-634: The last decade it has also addressed the problem of integrating cultural insights into COIN and played a key role in the initial development of the Human Terrain System, and is an active partner of the controversial cultural geography mapping project called México Indígena . Through the site, the US government made publicly available the Operation Iraqi Freedom Documents - some 55,000 boxes of documents, audiotapes and videotapes relating to

120-603: Was Dr. Bruce Menning. A primary area of focus was the development of operational art in the Soviet Union. Colonel David Glantz , a well-known author on the Soviet military experience in the Second World War , became its second director. FMSO was staffed by US Army foreign area officers and civilian scholars. With the end of the Cold War SASO became FMSO in 1991 and its focus initially broadened to Central and Eastern Europe. FMSO

132-628: Was a Mark W. Clark visiting professor of History at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina . Glantz is known as a military historian of the Soviet role in World War II . He has argued that the view of the Soviet Union's involvement in the war has been prejudiced in the West, which relies too much on German oral and printed sources without being balanced by a similar examination of Soviet source material. Fellow historian Jonathan Haslam , in

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144-688: Was actively involved in research on the end of the Cold War, the challenge of ethno-nationalism to Post-Cold War Europe, and relevant foreign military experience, such as the Soviet-Afghan War and the Wars in Chechnya. FMSO developed a research programs on Latin American military affairs, Chinese military studies, and Eurasian military studies. In the post Cold War era FMSO did address problems of asymmetric warfare . In

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