Ben Connable

Biographic Data

ID4587664
NAMEBen Connable
GIVEN NAMESBen
FAMILY NAMEConnable
SIGNATUREBEN CONNABLE
AFFILIATIONSCornell University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS10
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX2

  • Structuring Cultural Analyses

    Open AccessBen ConnableARTICLEJournal of advanced military…2022Cited by: 2

    Will to fight is the most important factor in war. This article describes two models designed to help analysts understand, describe, and forecast the will to fight of military forces and national leaders. Both models are designed to be modified by the Joint Force for tailored uses around the world

  • Will to Fight

    Ben Connable, Michael T McNerney et al.BOOKWill to Fight: Returning to the…2019Cited by: 4

    This brief argues for the importance of improving our understanding of what influences will to fight, and it describes two models for doing so: one for analyzing a military unit's will to fight, and one for analyzing a nation's will to fight

  • Knowing the Enemy

    Terrence Kelly, James Dobbins et al.BOOK2017

    In this Perspective, RAND researchers help identify threats to U.S. interests posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), propose a context in which ISIL should be judged (particularly ISIL's character and motivations, as well as key regional and global issues that frame the context), provide an initial framework for interpreting these data and insights, and outline a way ahead for developing and assessing courses of action and gene…

  • Beating the Islamic State

    Ben Connable, Natasha Lander et al.BOOK2017

    The U.S.-led strategy to defeat the Islamic State has been criticized for a lack of clarity, overemphasis on tactical objectives, and insufficient attention to the underlying causes of the greater civil conflict across both Iraq and Syria. This report assesses the current strategy and presents three options, derived from subject-matter-expert input. It recommends a new strategy to address root causes.

  • Rolling Back the Islamic State

    Seth G Jones, Seth Jones et al.BOOKRolling Back the Islamic State2017

    The Islamic State has lost substantial amounts of territory but continues to conduct and inspire attacks around the world. This report assesses the threat the Islamic State poses to the United States and examines strategies to counter the group and prevent a resurgence of the Islamic State or other Salafi-jihadist groups

  • Russian Strategy in the Middle East

    James Sladden, Becca Wasser et al.BOOK2017

    The authors seek to identify the important elements of Russian interests in the Middle East beyond Syria, to define the nature of Russian engagement in the region, and to describe the contours of a Russian strategy in the Middle East. Russia's regional strategy is an approach of ways and means, where broad principles take the place of prescribed ends; it is constantly seeking to improve its short-term economic, military, and political advantages

  • Operation Iraqi Freedom

    Ben Connable, T W DonnellyDATASETThe SHAFR Guide Online2017Cited by: 1

    It is impossible to understand American decisions about Saddam Hussein - to support him in power after the Islamist revolution in Iran, to leave him in power after the Gulf War, to remove him from power after the September 11 attacks, and, most crucially, the commitment to undertake an experiment in Arab democracy - without understanding the context of American policy toward the Middle East. Iraq has always been a piece of a larger puzzle. In Ope…

  • Stretching and Exploiting Thresholds for High-Order War

    Ben Connable, Jason Campbell et al.BOOKStretching and Exploiting…2016

    Since 9/11, Russia, China, and Iran have successfully exploited or stretched U.S. thresholds for high-order war in order to further their strategic ends and, in the process, undermine U.S. interests. Each of these countries has made expert use of some combination of measures short of war to enact its strategies. This report describes those measures and how these nation-states use them and explains why U.S. notions of thresholds might be outdated.

  • Ending the U.S. War in Iraq

    Richard R Brennan, Rick Jr Brennan et al.BOOKEnding the U.S. War in Iraq: The…2013Cited by: 3

    Ending the U.S. war in Iraq required redeploying 100,000 military and civilian personnel; handing off responsibility for 431 activities to the Iraqi government, U.S. embassy, USCENTCOM, or other U.S. government entities; and moving or transferring ownership of over a million pieces of property in accordance with U.S. and Iraqi laws, national policy, and DoD requirements. This book examines the planning and execution of this transition