Strategic Insights was a monthly electronic journal produced by the Center for Contemporary Conflict at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. [1]
The first volume was Volume I, Issue 1 (March 2002). [2] Strategic Insights folded in 2011. [3] A complete archive of the journal is available on the World Wide Web at the website of the Center for Contemporary Conflict. [4]
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