{"606229":{"#nid":"606229","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Kosal\u0027s Article Published in PRISM","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMargaret Kosal, associate professor in the Nunn School, has an article titled \u0026ldquo;The Counter-WMD Strategy Gap\u0026rdquo; published in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EPRISM\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Volume 7, no.3).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAbstract\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;In 1994, then Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, General Gordon Sullivan, recognized the increasing threat of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons and the capability gaps exposed by the challenges of operating in a weapons of mass destruction (WMD)-contaminated environment. Although threats from WMD are neither new nor unrecognized at the highest levels of the U.S. Government (USG) and Department of Defense (DOD), remarkable gaps and inconsistencies between strategic level policy and operational capabilities persist. During the past 15 years, countering\u0026ndash;WMD (CWMD) has been a top priority as expressed throughout multiple national and department-level strategy and policy documents, to include the National Security Strategy (NSS); the National Military Strategy (NMS); the National Defense Strategy (NDS); the Defense Strategic Guidance (DSG); and Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR). While a prevention strategy is laudable and important, the disparity between strategy and the required operational capabilities and capacities needed for securing, interdicting, and eliminating WMD reveals potential gaps that must be recognized and accounted for to ensure a credible deterrent posture. Future threats, especially biological, are likely to be more complicated than current or past conceptions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERead the full article \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cco.ndu.edu\/News\/Article\/1507402\/the-cwmd-strategy-gap\/\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Margaret Kosal, associate professor in the Nunn School, has an article titled \u201cThe Counter-WMD Strategy Gap\u201d published in PRISM, a journal published by the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University."}],"uid":"34508","created_gmt":"2018-05-16 15:29:27","changed_gmt":"2018-05-16 15:46:35","author":"oadebola3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-05-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-05-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"454171":{"id":"454171","type":"image","title":"Margaret E. Kosal","body":null,"created":"1449256319","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:11:59","changed":"1567697599","gmt_changed":"2019-09-05 15:33:19","alt":"A portrait photo of Margaret Kosal, associate professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs","file":{"fid":"203429","name":"margaret_e._kosal.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/margaret_e._kosal_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/margaret_e._kosal_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":104687,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/margaret_e._kosal_0.jpg?itok=-EgukQF7"}}},"media_ids":["454171"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"178006","name":"chemical WMD"},{"id":"52341","name":"cooperative threat reduction"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDirector of Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Erebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n404.894.1720\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}