U.S. Military Sources on the Web

• U.S. Department of Defense - Official U.S. Department of Defense site for all branches of service, including active, reserve, veteran, and retired members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, National Guard. Links to all things military: news, press releases, backgrounders, branches of service, statistics, aid to military families, emergency relief, the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act, history of key conflicts, key military biographies, and more.
• Defense Almanac
• Joint Chiefs of Staff
• Air Force
• Army 
• Navy
• Coast Guard
• Marine Corps

Significant Documents

• The National Military Strategy of the U.S.A., 2011: Redefining America's Military Leadership (PDF 5.5MB)

Organizations, Institutes and Other Good Sources

The Brookings Institution 
The Brookings Institution is an independent, nonpartisan organization devoted to research, analysis, education, and publication focused on public policy issues in the areas of economics, foreign policy, and governance.

Battelle Institute 
Battelle serves industry and government in developing new technologies and products. 

Cato Institute 
It is a non-profit public policy research foundation headquartered in Washington, D.C.

CBRNIAC 
The Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense Information Analysis Center (CBRNIAC), formerly known as the CBIAC, is a full service Department of Defense (DoD) Information Analysis Center (IAC). The CBRNIAC is the authoritative resource for DoD Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Defense and Homeland Security scientific and technical (S&T) information.

Center for Defense Information (CDI) 
Former senior military personnel, educators, and public officials. Seeks to make independent, informed analyses of U.S. defense policies available to journalists, scholars, government officials, and the general public; support a strong but not excessive defense posture; eliminate waste in military spending; reduce military influence on U.S. domestic and foreign policies; work to avoid nuclear war. Offers internships; produces a TV program, America's Defense Monitor. Conducts research and specialized education programs; sponsors seminars. Maintains speakers' bureau on a variety of military issues.

Dictionary of Military Terms 
This site leads to three dictionaries. The main page lets you search or browse the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Dictionary data base. You can also choose to search or browse the Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations data base or the NATO Only Terms data base.

Federation of American Scientists
The Federation of American Scientists is a nonprofit organization founded in 1945 as the Federation of Atomic Scientists. FAS' strategies include advocacy, briefings with policy makers and the press, public education and outreach, collaboration with civil rights, human rights, and arms control groups, and grassroots organizing.

The Hudson Institute
Hudson Institute produces independent, high-quality research and competes boldly in the debate of policy ideas.

Index to Military Periodicals
The Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals (AULIMP) is a searchable database of citations to "significant articles, news items, and editorials from English language military and aeronautical periodicals." Full-text articles from ten of the journals indexed are available and the journal Web sites are linked in the citation. Updated quarterly. You can also browse by subject.

The Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis 
Trains policy analysts in the fields of foreign policy and national security. Sponsors research and workshops.

Jane's 
The editors of Jane's magazines, yearbooks and special reports prepare information vital to the understanding of global defence, aerospace and transportation.

Military Education and Research Library Network (MERLN) 
"Offers the combined resources of the largest and most comprehensive collections of military information resources in the world." MERLN provides access to the library catalogs at each branch of the armed forces' academies and war colleges. It also has links to the Digital National Security Archive, the Declassified Documents Reference System, and the collected papers of Admiral Richard Bates.

Rand 
RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis. 

U.S. Army War College Library 
Library is a graduate-level special academic library enabling the College's educational, research and strategic communications missions. It also serves as a primary research and information resource for organizations and individuals outside of Carlisle Barracks and the Army, including Congress, DoD, other federal agencies, universities and colleges, the media and individual researchers and writers.

Last updated March 1, 2011.