Paul Rexton Kan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3086528 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Rexton Kan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul Rexton |
| FAMILY NAME | Kan |
| SIGNATURE | KAN P R |
| AFFILIATIONS | United States Army War College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Uighur Foreign Fighters: An Underexamined Jihadist Challenge
Uighurs, specifically individuals of Turkic decent from China’s northwest province of Xinjiang, have become a noticeable part of the constellation of globally active jihadist terror groups. Uighur jihadists first came to the world’s attention when the United States and its allies invaded Afghanistan in 2001. While continuing their cooperation with the Taliban under the banner of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), Uighur jihadists have no…
Defeating the Islamic State: A Financial-Military Strategy
Through oil smuggling, kidnapping, human trafficking and extortion, ISIL is one the best funded militant groups the United States has confronted. Avoiding a protracted conflict with ISIS requires a more integrated financial and military strategy to undermine the group's territorial control and reach
Forces of Habit: Global SOF's Role in Countering Illicit Drug Trafficking
Illicit drug trafficking is a prominent national security issue in a globalizing world. Drug trafficking intersects with major security issues such as rogue and narco-states, weak and failing states, insurgencies and terrorism, transnational organized crime and protracted intrastate conflicts. These are the same issues that sets the operational environment for the deployment of SOF. Rather than treating drug trafficking as a singular and separate…
Malicious Peace: Violent Criminal Organizations, National Governments and Truces
Truces among violent criminal organizations, like gangs and organized crime syndicates, which occur with national government support fall into a unique gap between understandings of crime and internal state violence. Recent national level gang truces in Central America and the Caribbean fall into this gap; the truces are designed to lower homicide rates and move some members of criminal groups towards legal activities. However, there is precious …
Cyberwar to Wikiwar: Battles for Cyberspace
National leaders warn of a and that may lead a potential Pearl Harbor. To prevent such an occurrence requires cyber defense or even some sort of cyber deterrence. Some policymakers even want cyber arms control. However, these concepts are a retrofitting of those used in the physical domain describe violent acts and responses them. Do these concepts help policymakers, national security professionals, and scholars understand aggressive acts perpetr…
What We’re Getting Wrong About Mexico
In a meeting I had with a high, ranking military official in Afghanistan, conversation turned to s ongoing drug violence. He exclaimed, there's a place that could use a dose of He seemed to be encouraging Andrew Bacevich's leefiness about Department of Defense's current thinking on Mexico: To frame problem [in Mexico] as an almost necessarily invites a military response. 1 would be skeptical that a response that puts a primary emphasis on militar…
Afterword: Criminal violence in Mexico - a dissenting analysis
Drugging Babylon: The Illegal Narcotics Trade and Nation-Building in Iraq
The illicit global economy is known to fuel numerous conflicts. Yet, the pernicious influence of the drug trade can be felt in many enduring conflicts of the early twenty-first century. This is the case in Iraq where organized crime syndicates, insurgent groups and sectarian militias are creating an incipient narcotized conflict. Without managing this dimension of the war, attempts to curtail violence in the country are very likely to fail
Counternarcotics Operations within Counterinsurgency: The Pivotal Role of Intelligence
Additional informationNotes on contributorsPaul Rexton Kan Dr. Paul Rexton Kan is Assistant Professor of National Security Studies at the United States Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. He was previously Assistant Professor of International Security and Military Studies at the Air Command and Staff College of the U.S. Air Force at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama
Webs of Smoke: Drugs and Small Wars
War and drugs share many characteristics – both are destructive of human life, highly profitable to some, and efforts to regulate them have failed. In fact, at various times throughout history, war and drugs have been intertwined, prolonging human suffering, bedeviling political leaders and enriching a select few. The pernicious role of drugs in organized political violence is often overlooked. Drugs have been the cause of war, the funding for mi…
Uighur Foreign Fighters: An Underexamined Jihadist Challenge
Uighurs, specifically individuals of Turkic decent from China’s northwest province of Xinjiang, have become a noticeable part of the constellation of globally active jihadist terror groups. Uighur jihadists first came to the world’s attention when the United States and its allies invaded Afghanistan in 2001. While continuing their cooperation with the Taliban under the banner of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), Uighur jihadists have no…
Malicious Peace: Violent Criminal Organizations, National Governments and Truces
Truces among violent criminal organizations, like gangs and organized crime syndicates, which occur with national government support fall into a unique gap between understandings of crime and internal state violence. Recent national level gang truces in Central America and the Caribbean fall into this gap; the truces are designed to lower homicide rates and move some members of criminal groups towards legal activities. However, there is precious …
Counternarcotics Operations within Counterinsurgency: The Pivotal Role of Intelligence
Additional informationNotes on contributorsPaul Rexton Kan Dr. Paul Rexton Kan is Assistant Professor of National Security Studies at the United States Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. He was previously Assistant Professor of International Security and Military Studies at the Air Command and Staff College of the U.S. Air Force at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama
Webs of Smoke: Drugs and Small Wars
War and drugs share many characteristics – both are destructive of human life, highly profitable to some, and efforts to regulate them have failed. In fact, at various times throughout history, war and drugs have been intertwined, prolonging human suffering, bedeviling political leaders and enriching a select few. The pernicious role of drugs in organized political violence is often overlooked. Drugs have been the cause of war, the funding for mi…
Drugging Babylon: The Illegal Narcotics Trade and Nation-Building in Iraq
The illicit global economy is known to fuel numerous conflicts. Yet, the pernicious influence of the drug trade can be felt in many enduring conflicts of the early twenty-first century. This is the case in Iraq where organized crime syndicates, insurgent groups and sectarian militias are creating an incipient narcotized conflict. Without managing this dimension of the war, attempts to curtail violence in the country are very likely to fail
Afterword: Criminal violence in Mexico - a dissenting analysis
What We’re Getting Wrong About Mexico
In a meeting I had with a high, ranking military official in Afghanistan, conversation turned to s ongoing drug violence. He exclaimed, there's a place that could use a dose of He seemed to be encouraging Andrew Bacevich's leefiness about Department of Defense's current thinking on Mexico: To frame problem [in Mexico] as an almost necessarily invites a military response. 1 would be skeptical that a response that puts a primary emphasis on militar…
Cyberwar to Wikiwar: Battles for Cyberspace
National leaders warn of a and that may lead a potential Pearl Harbor. To prevent such an occurrence requires cyber defense or even some sort of cyber deterrence. Some policymakers even want cyber arms control. However, these concepts are a retrofitting of those used in the physical domain describe violent acts and responses them. Do these concepts help policymakers, national security professionals, and scholars understand aggressive acts perpetr…
Defeating the Islamic State: A Financial-Military Strategy
Through oil smuggling, kidnapping, human trafficking and extortion, ISIL is one the best funded militant groups the United States has confronted. Avoiding a protracted conflict with ISIS requires a more integrated financial and military strategy to undermine the group's territorial control and reach
Forces of Habit: Global SOF's Role in Countering Illicit Drug Trafficking
Illicit drug trafficking is a prominent national security issue in a globalizing world. Drug trafficking intersects with major security issues such as rogue and narco-states, weak and failing states, insurgencies and terrorism, transnational organized crime and protracted intrastate conflicts. These are the same issues that sets the operational environment for the deployment of SOF. Rather than treating drug trafficking as a singular and separate…
Malicious Peace: Violent Criminal Organizations, National Governments and Truces
Truces among violent criminal organizations, like gangs and organized crime syndicates, which occur with national government support fall into a unique gap between understandings of crime and internal state violence. Recent national level gang truces in Central America and the Caribbean fall into this gap; the truces are designed to lower homicide rates and move some members of criminal groups towards legal activities. However, there is precious …
Uighur Foreign Fighters: An Underexamined Jihadist Challenge
Uighurs, specifically individuals of Turkic decent from China’s northwest province of Xinjiang, have become a noticeable part of the constellation of globally active jihadist terror groups. Uighur jihadists first came to the world’s attention when the United States and its allies invaded Afghanistan in 2001. While continuing their cooperation with the Taliban under the banner of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), Uighur jihadists have no…
Political science (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer security (3 works) · Law (3 works) · National security (3 works) · Political economy (3 works)