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Alan Ned Sabrosky is an American military and political analyst who served as director of the Strategic Studies Institute at the United States Army War College.

Early life and education

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Sabrosky earned a Bachelor's degree from East Carolina University in 1969, Master's degrees from the University of Michigan in 1971 and 1972, and a Ph.D. also from the University of Michigan in 1976, with a dissertation titled "Why Wide Wars? Capability Distribution, Alliance Aggregation, and the Expansion of Interstate War, 1820–1965".[1]

Career

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Sabrosky served in the Marines and held faculty positions at Catholic University and Georgetown University, and at the University of Pennsylvania while working as a research associate at the Foreign Policy Research Institute during the 1970s. In 1981 he became director of FPRI for a year; he then moved to Washington, D.C., and a year after that became Director of Studies at the Army War College,[2] where he received the Superior Civilian Service Award in 1988 and held the General of the Army Douglas MacArthur Chair of Research;[3][4] he remained there until retirement.

Research and publications

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Sabrosky edited Blue-Collar Soldiers? Unionization and the U.S. Military (1977), a collection of papers from an FPRI conference.[5][6][7] In it he argued that "military unions are simply too great a risk for a political democracy [because it would be] unwise to expect unions not to act like unions over the long term, and in doing so call into question the basis of our national security".[8]

In 1985, he edited and contributed an article to Polarity and War: The Changing Structure of International Conflict, published in association with the University of Michigan Correlates of War Project.[9] Distinguishing between "localized wars" between the original belligerents, "expanded wars" that include several belligerents, and enlarged wars that include a major power on both sides of the conflict,[10][11] he has argued that a conflict escalates when a major power intervenes in a war between a minor state and another major state,[12] and that conflicts are likely to expand more rapidly than they did in the 19th century.[9] In the field of alliance systems, he has also published Alliances in US Foreign Policy: Issues in the Quest for Collective Defense (1988).[13]

In 2009, Sabrosky published an opinion piece titled "Treason, Betrayal and Deceit: The Road to 9/11 and Beyond" in which he argued that the September 11 attacks were a Mossad operation.[14][15][16] In 2010, he wrote that "a large majority of American Jews ...espouse a form of political bigamy called dual loyalty", and criticized those who serve in the Israel Defense Forces but not in the U.S. Armed Forces.[3] In responding to the latter article, Daniel Flesch, a former IDF paratrooper, called him a conspiracy theorist.[17] In 2011 the Anti-Defamation League named him as a key figure in anti-Semitic 9/11 conspiracy theories.[15][18][19]

Books

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  • (Editor, contributor) Blue-Collar Soldiers? Unionization and the U.S. Military. Westview special studies in military affairs. Boulder, Colorado: Westview. 1978. ISBN 9780891580553.
  • Defense Manpower Policy: A Critical Reappraisal. Monographs. Vol. 22. Philadelphia: Foreign Policy Research Institute. 1978. OCLC 4211186.
  • Great Power Games: The Sino-Soviet-American 'Power Transition'. Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies monograph series. Vol. 14. Washington, DC: Council on American Affairs. 1982. ISBN 9780930690137.
  • (Editor, contributor) Polarity and War: The Changing Structure of International Conflict. Westview special studies in international relations. Boulder, Colorado: Westview. 1985. ISBN 9780813370002.
  • (Co-editor, contributor) The Strategic Dimension of Military Manpower. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ballinger; Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International Studies. 1987. ISBN 9780887301551.
  • (Editor, contributor) Alliances in U.S. Foreign Policy: Issues in the Quest for Collective Defence. Studies in global security. Boulder, Colorado / London: Westview. 1988. ISBN 9780813371955.
  • (Co-editor, contributor) The Recourse to War: An Appraisal of the 'Weinberger Doctrine'. Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania: U.S. Army War College. 1988. OCLC 717679933. Repr. London: F. Cass, 1990. Small Wars & Insurgencies 1.2. OCLC 41290310.
  • (Co-editor, contributor) Prisoners of War? Nation-States in the Modern Era. Lexington, Massachusetts: D.C. Heath/Lexington. 1990. ISBN 9780669171419.

References

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  1. ^ Long, Alma E. (Autumn 1976). "Doctoral Dissertations in Political Science, 1976". PS. 9 (4): 511. JSTOR 418087.
  2. ^ Wiarda, Howard J. (2010). Think Tanks and Foreign Policy: The Foreign Policy Research Institute and Presidential Politics. Lexington Books. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-7391-4164-9.
  3. ^ a b Sabrosky, Alan (October 4, 2010). "Zionism Unmasked — The Dark Face Of Jewish Nationalism". Veterans Today.
  4. ^ Murray, Douglas J.; Viotti, Paul R., eds. (1989). The Defense Policies of Nations: A Comparative Study (2nd ed.). Johns Hopkins University. p. xiii. ISBN 9780801835995.
  5. ^ Segal, David R. (June 1979). "Review: Blue-Collar Soldiers? Unionization and the U.S. Military by Alan Ned Sabrosky". The American Political Science Review. 73 (2): 603–04. doi:10.2307/1954947. JSTOR 1954947.
  6. ^ Head, Richard G. (April 1978). "Recent Books". Foreign Affairs. 56 (3): 669. JSTOR 20039938.
  7. ^ Mittelstadt, Jennifer (Fall 2011). "'The Army is a Service, Not a Job': Unionization, Employment, and the Meaning of Military Service in the Late-Twentieth Century United States". International Labor and Working-Class History. 80: 29–52. JSTOR 41307192.
  8. ^ McCollum, James K. (1978). "Blue Collar Soldiers/Military Unions (Book)". Monthly Labor Review (review). 101 (9): 66. ISSN 0098-1818.
  9. ^ a b Mussington, Brian David (July–September 1987). "Review: Polarity and War: The Changing Structure of International Conflict by Alan Ned Sabrosky". International Journal on World Peace. 4 (3): 121–24. JSTOR 20751167.
  10. ^ Vasquez, John A. (1993). The War Puzzle. Cambridge Studies in International Relations. Vol. 27. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 230. ISBN 978-0-521-36674-8. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  11. ^ Valeriano, Brandon; Vasquez, John E. (2010). "Identifying and Classifying Complex Interstate Wars" (PDF). International Studies Quarterly. 54: 564.
  12. ^ Chan, Steve (2013). Enduring Rivalries in the Asia-Pacific. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 186. ISBN 978-1-107-04143-1.
  13. ^ Scales, Robert H., Jr. (Winter 1998). "Trust, Not Technology, Sustains Coalitions". Parameters: 4 10, note 5.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  14. ^ Sabrosky, Alan (September 10, 2009). "Treason, Betrayal and Deceit: The Road to 9/11 and Beyond". Salem-News.com.
  15. ^ a b Kestenbaum, Sam (September 8, 2016). "9/11 Anniversary Sparks New Wave of Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories". Daily Forward.
  16. ^ Barrett, Kevin (May 30, 2018). "Censorship Plague Infects America". American Free Press.
  17. ^ Flesch, Daniel (February 1, 2015). "Slandering Americans Who Fight for Israel". Commentary. 139 (2): 35. ISSN 0010-2601.
  18. ^ "Decade of Deceit: Anti-Semitic 9/11 Conspiracy Theories 10 Years Later" (PDF). Anti-Defamation League. August 30, 2011.
  19. ^ "ADL: Anti-Semitic 9/11 theories still strong 10 years on". The Jerusalem Post. August 31, 2011.


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