The annual Combat Studies Institute Military History Symposium provides a forum for the interchange of ideas on historical topics pertinent to the current doctrinal concerns of the United States Army. Furthermore, the Symposium solicits input from a diverse group of military personnel, government historians, civilian academicians, journalists and thinkers in a setting that promotes the exchange of ideas and information. The 2007 symposium's theme, "Warfare in the Age of Non-State Actors: Implications for the US Army" explored the challenges associated with conflict between nation states and transnational religious, ethnic, or criminal groups. It examined the historical experiences of both the United States and other nations in this most asymmetric of environments in an attempt to distill the insights from the past can provide us guidance into the future. These proceedings contain the papers and presentations of all the speakers and panelists, as well as the transcriptions of selected question and answer periods following the presentations.

Full text also available via Internet from the Combined Arms Research Library web site. The electronic version of this publication is too large to download in its entirety and it has been divided into smaller parts which allow for faster downloading. "Annual Combat Studies Institute Military History Symposium, now in its fifth year"--P. vii.

Keynote address :Army and the global war on terrorism / Barry R. McCaffrey -- International perspectives : French view on the war in French-Algeria / by Philippe Francois -- Political consequences of military operations in the long war : the Israeli experience, 2000-2006 / by Adam Harmon -- The role of culture : Caliphate and Islamofascism : two irrelevant factors in the long war / by Michael Scheuer -- American culture of war / by Adrian Lewis -- Shaping the battlefield : Policing paradox : the dilemma of colonial policing and military security in the age of terrorism / by Derek Catsam -- Shaping the conditions for a post conflict environment / by Douglas Davids -- Featured speaker : Strategic communications : the information battlefield / by William B. Caldwell IV -- On the ground in Iraq : Challenge of providing security in the post-combat phase urban environment / by Kevin Farrell -- Baghdad security plan and non-state actors / by Linda Robinson -- Non-state actors, the US Army, and the law of war -- At war with non-state entities / by Lee A. Casey -- Legal doctrines for war among the people / by Michael F. Noone, Jr. -- Featured speaker : Army and the future of irregular conflict / by Robert H. Scales, Jr. -- Leadership lecture series guest speaker : US Representative Ike Skelton, IV (D. MO) Chairman, House Armed Services Committee -- Middle East perspective : Hezbollah as a non-state actor in the second Lebanon war : an operational analysis / by Abe Marrero --\tIraq and global insurgency : Dien Bien Phu or Khe Sahn? -- Featured speaker : Nature of irregular conflict in the 21st century / by Ralph Peters -- Featured speaker : Global security : continuing conflict in the Middle East / by Thomas P.M. Barnett.