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	EH.Net Encyclopedia: Smoot-Hawley Tariff
		Hoover took office on March 4, 1929 and immediately called a special session of Congress to convene on April 15 for the purpose of raising duties on agricultural products.
		If net exports fell as a result of Smoot-Hawley, then the tariff would have had a negative macroeconomic impact; it would have made the Depression worse.
		In real terms, net exports did decline by about $.7 billion between 1929 and 1933, but this amounts to less than one percent of 1929 real GDP and is dwarfed by the total decline in real GDP between 1929 and 1933.
	eh.net /encyclopedia/?article=obrien.hawley-smoot.tariff (3465 words)

	Office of Net Assessment - SourceWatch
		It was also the office that persistently called attention to the vast overestimates of the Soviet GNP that were put out by the CIA during the Cold War.
		The objective of a net assessment, as perfected by Marshall's office, was to provide an even-handed look at both sides of complex military competitions, examining the long-term trends and present factors that govern the capabilities of the United States and its potential enemies.
		An ONA study from the mid-nineties stated that Beijing's military was modernizing so rapidly that the People's Liberation Army would soon be able to defeat the United States in a regional conflict in Asia.
	www.sourcewatch.org /wiki.phtml?title=Office_of_Net_Assessment (2248 words)

	United States Department of Defense - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		On February 22, 2002, the Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General has reported that DOD has not and will not account for $1.1 trillion of "undocumentable adjustments."
		As part of the September 11, 2001 attacks, terrorists crashed a plane into one of the sections of The Pentagon, causing part of it to collapse, killing 189 people.
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	open-encyclopedia.com /United_States_Department_of_Defense (801 words)

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		By describing what a net assessment of the military balance in the Taiwan Strait would include and how it would be structured it suggests what kinds of gaps in our knowledge are most important.
		A net assessment must therefore focus on the military options that Beijing might exercise against Taiwan, and on the military capabilities relevant to the contingencies that those options would create.
		From this starting point, an assessment would identify and analyze the trends and asymmetries that may change or affect our ability to achieve these goals given the variety of possible Chinese military operations; and then focus specifically on the adequacy of deterrence and the likely outcome of any conflict if deterrence fails.
	www.nautilus.org /archives/pub/ftp/napsnet/special_reports/DOD_Report_on_TRA.txt (2280 words)

	NWCR, Autumn 2001: Reviews of Watts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Much of the work of ONA is highly classified, and it has been difficult to understand just what is involved in “net assessment.” Now we have an example.
		Given the interest in RMAs at Net Assessment, it is curious that he does not consider what might be a true RMA for the U.S. military, albeit one in reverse—a large-scale degradation of U.S. communications, reconnaissance, and Global Positioning System satellites.
		In an explicit net assessment the issue of U.S. vulnerability and the capability of potential adversaries should be addressed more thoroughly before the wisdom of raining titanium rods from space is considered.
	www.nwc.navy.mil /press/Review/2001/Autumn/br2-au1.htm (774 words)

	World History :: Encyclopedia Index -- Of (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
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	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/Of.htm (196 words)

	Office of Net Assessment -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Office of Net Assessment -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		The (The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the UnitedStates; created in 1947) United States Department of Defense's Office of Net Assessment was created in 1973.
		Donald Henry, "special assistant to the director of net assessment in the Office of Net Assessment within OSD"
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/o/of/office_of_net_assessment.htm (85 words)

	ROC, U.S. TO ENTER 'STRATEGIC COOPERATION'
		According to MND sources, the U.S. military began to assist the ROC in building up "net assessment" capability after the 1995-96 Taiwan Strait crisis during which time mainland China lobbed missiles and conducted live-fire military exercises at Taiwan's doorstep in an attempt to affect the result of the ROC's first direct presidential election.
		The official explained that "net assessment" refers to a quantitative research system comprising a set of calculating software programs and highly efficient hardware facilities.
		"The U.S.-developed 'net assessment' system will enable us to evaluate all possible scenarios through simulated warfare on the basis of quantitative data and information," the official said, adding that with the assistance of this highly sophisticated assessment system, the ROC military will be able to shed subjective, arbitrary elements in traditional military strength evaluation.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/taiwan/2000/taiwan-001218.htm (465 words)

	SAIS Strategic Studies - Faculty
		Andrew Krepinevich is a professorial lecturer in Strategic Studies, and director of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments in Washington, D.C. A retired lieutenant colonel in the US Army, he received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and is the author of the prize-winning book, The Army in Vietnam.
		He taught at the United States Military Academy, West Point, and served on the staff of the Office of Net Assessment, the executive Office of the Secretary of Defense and on the Army staff.
		He has held positions in both the government and the private sector, including in the Office of the Secretary of Defense's Office of Net Assessment and was an analyst for the Gulf War Air Power Survey (1991-1993).
	www.sais-jhu.edu /programs/ir/strategic/faculty (1098 words)

	FBI probes DOD office - (United Press International) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The FBI has intensified its investigation of senior members of what was formerly known as the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans on suspicion that one of them passed highly classified U.S. military information to the government of Israel, according to federal law enforcement officials.
		The NESA/OSP office was located on the fourth floor of the Pentagon, D ring, 7th corridor, according to Kwiatkowski, the former staffer.
		In 2001, Ledeen was hired by Feith to work on contract for the Office of Special Plans, which involved the handling of sensitive materials, Green said, a fact confirmed last week to UPI by congressional investigators.
	washingtontimes.com /upi-breaking/20040824-102938-1916r.htm (860 words)

	Transformation Concepts for National Security in the 21st Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		In fact, the concepts of effects-based operations and operational net assessment are not new, as many of their advocates claim.
		That office's noble efforts were rarely marked with success, which should suggest how difficult it will be in the 21st century to perform net assessments, much less "operational net assessments" against nations.
		For the historical background as to how net assessment was performed in the 20th century, two titles offer useful historical case studies on how to understand exactly what net assessment has or has not been in the past.
	www.e11th-hour.org /archives/transformation.concepts.html (7368 words)

	The Man From ONA
		Seventy-eight-year-old Andrew Marshall runs the Office of Net Assessment from a small office on the third floor of the Pentagon.
		Soon, Marshall's office was on the phone with the Centers for Disease Control, urging the agency to devote more resources to the emerging scourge.
		A second ONA report, prepared for the agency by RAND, estimated that Beijing is spending about $140 billion a year on defense.
	www.thenation.com /doc/19991025/19991025silversteinside (1062 words)

	Hicks & Associates: What We Do: Military Transformation Consulting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Having begun nearly ten years ago exploring the implications of what was then called the Revolution in Military Affairs for US military forces, H&AI has a long history of examining the implications of new technologies on operational concepts and new military organizational structures.
		Hicks & Associates assists the Office of Net Assessment in conducting strategic assessments.
		These assessments can be focused on regions, such as Asia, Europe or the Middle East, or on particular sub-regions such as South Asia.
	www.hicksandassociates.com /whatwedo/military-transformation.html (743 words)

	International Assessment and Strategy Center > About > About IASC
		IASC is a new Washington-based 501(c)(3) non-profit “think-tank” focused on medium and long-term security issues and their impact on the security of the United States and her key allies.
		IASC’s uses methods pioneered by Shell Oil and the Office of Net Assessment in the Department of Defense, both of which IASC principals have worked with.
		Net Assessment weighs all factors impinging, one way or another, on a nation’s security, and arrives at judgments that provide an honest indicator of the current situation.
	www.strategycenter.net /about (672 words)

	ManucherGhorbanifar-I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Harold Rhode is a Foreign Affairs Specialist in the Office of Net Assessment, Office of the Secretary of Defense.[1]
		In fact, it appears that information collected by this office was in some instances not even shared with established intelligence agencies and in numerous instances was passed on to the national security council and the president without having been vetted with anyone other than political appointees.
		Two things: Whether these alleged Feith office back channels were authorized or not by the administration; and secondly, whether they were not just about intelligence gathering [which would be problematic in and of itself], but if they had aspirations to be operational.
	dks.thing.net /ManucherGhorbanifar-I.html (9521 words)

	inFamous University of Chicago Graduates - subset
		The Bush campaign asserts these are forgeries, because no typewriter in 1973 could have produced the small "th" found in several of them (for instance, "187th").
		The Office of Special Plans (OSP) was created by Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld to help create a case to invade Iraq.
		It was renamed and expanded to the Office of Special Plans in October 2002 to to handle prewar and postwar planning.
	www.bayarea.net /~kins/AboutMe/Hutchins_items/Graduates_subset.html (2772 words)

	Project for the New American Century
		Defense Reorganization and the Office of Net Assessment
		I want to draw your attention to the following statement by Professor Stephen P. Rosen of Harvard University concerning Secretary of Defense Cohen’s plan to move the Office of Net Assessment from the policy arm of the Department of Defense to the National Defense University.
		“The proposed reorganization of the Office of the Secretary of Defense announced today by Secretary of Defense Cohen will take the Office of Net Assessment and its director, Andrew Marshall, out of the Pentagon and bury it in the National Defense University.
	www.newamericancentury.org /defnov1097.htm (347 words)

	TAP: Web Feature: The Dubious Genius of Andrew Marshall. by Jason Vest. February 15, 2001. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's Adviser on Net Assessment will produce a report that will be the working blueprint for the Pentagon's future.
		Given that the Adviser -- Andrew Marshall -- is a futurist fascinated with the most advanced technologies, observers expect the report to be chock full of recommendations emphasizing an expansive embrace of "information age" technologies, and a shift away from more conventional procurements.
		But according to a longtime analyst, the product from Marshall's office often seems to be, "thinking outside of the box for the sake of thinking outside the box," fused with a touch of the paranoid.
	www.prospect.org /webfeatures/2001/02/vest-j-02-15.html (1165 words)

	The Lie Factory
		Rhode, seen by many veteran staffers as an ideological gadfly, was officially assigned to the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment, an in-house Pentagon think tank headed by fellow neocon Andrew Marshall.
		The unofficial, off-site recruitment office for Feith and Rhode was the American Enterprise Institute, a right-wing think tank whose 12th-floor conference room in Washington is named for the dean of neoconservative defense strategists, the late Albert Wohlstetter, an influential RAND analyst and University of Chicago mathematician.
		Wurmser would be the founding participant of the unnamed, secret intelligence unit at the Pentagon, set up in Feith's office, which would be the nucleus of the Defense Department's Iraq disinformation campaign that was established within weeks of the attacks in New York and Washington.
	www.motherjones.com /news/feature/2004/01/12_405.html (1312 words)

	Winds of Change.NET: A Response to Armed Liberal
		You need either an advanced degree in international relations, a specialized military/foreign affairs history background, or a extremely specialized career in Pentagon Net Assessment to be fully qualified to participate in creating grand strategy, whether directly or through the influence of your professional writing.
		The last example is Andrew Marshall from the Pentagon Office of Net Assessment.
		I am merely pointing out how specialized the appropriate 'expert badge' for Military Net Assessment and Grand Strategy are and how small and specialized a field those who hold it are in.
	windsofchange.net /archives/a_response_to_armed_liberal-print.php (1451 words)

	Hicks & Associates: Principal Staff: Dr. Michael Brown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Currently, Dr. Brown is Director of the Strategic Assessment Center and a Senior Vice President of Hicks and Associates (a wholly-owned subsidiary of SAIC).
		The Strategic Assessment Center was developed to provide innovative, high quality analysis to senior decision makers in the Defense Department and the Defense Industry.
		As the Director, Dr. Brown is responsible for all aspects of project management, new business development, personnel management and profitability of the organization.
	www.hicksandassociates.com /staff/michael_brown.html (302 words)

	Research Alert - Office of the Vice President for Research
		Office of the Vice President for Research -> Research Alert
		Broad Agency Announcement on Behalf of the Secretary of Defense, Office of Net Assessment
		Comments to Office of the VP for Research
	www.utexas.edu /research/vp/alert/news_archive/2003/m12d01.html (427 words)

	MICHAEL G (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		MICHAEL G. Michael Vickers is a doctoral candidate and Alexander Hamilton Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, where he is completing a dissertation on the structure of military revolutions.
		He is currently a Strategic Studies Fellow with the Office of Net Assessment/Office of the Secretary of Defense, where he works on conceptual and organizational issues relating to the emerging military revolution.
		He served as a core member of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy's 1993 Study on Competitors in the Military Technical Revolution and 1994 Study on China in the Decade Ahead.
	www.pacom.mil /staff/amors/amorsiii/5b.html (157 words)

	Chalabi-gate: None Dare Call It Treason (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		"A former staff member of the Office of Special Plans and a currently serving defense official, two of those said to be questioned by the FBI, are considered witnesses, at least for now.
		Office of Special Plans and the CPA, who served as
		Office of Net Assessment and a specialist on Islam, is reportedly
	www.worldnewsstand.net /04/article/6-4.htm (1969 words)

	Global Exchange : The Lie Factory
		In the very first meeting of the Bush national-security team, one day after President Bush took the oath of office in January 2001, the issue of invading Iraq was raised, according to one of the participants in the meeting-and officials all the way down the line started to get the message, long before 9/11.
		Maloof was also reportedly involved in a bizarre scheme to broker contacts between Iraqi officials and the Pentagon, channeled through Perle, in what one report called a "rogue [intelligence] operation" outside officiai CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency channels.
		As OSP got rolling, Luti brought in Colonel Bruner, a former military aide to Gingrich, and, together, Luti and Bruner opened the door to a vast flow of bogus intelligence fed to the Pentagon by Iraqi defectors associated with Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress group of exiles.
	www.globalexchange.org /countries/iraq/1448.html (3740 words)

	MotherJones.com \| News
		Maloof was also reportedly involved in a bizarre scheme to broker contacts between Iraqi officials and the Pentagon, channeled through Perle, in what one report called a "rogue [intelligence] operation" outside official CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency channels.
		By then, Wurmser had moved on to a post as senior adviser to Undersecretary of State John Bolton, yet another neocon, who was in charge of the State Department's disarmament, proliferation, and WMD office and was promoting the Iraq war strategy there.
		The offices of NESA were located on the Pentagon's fourth floor, seventh corridor of D Ring, and the Policy Board's offices were directly below, on the third floor.
	www.motherjones.com /cgi-bin/print_article.pl?url=http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/01/12_405.html (3734 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Michael Pillsbury is a member of the Council on Office of Net Assessment, Office of the Secretary of Defense.
		During the Reagan administration, Dr. Pillsbury was the Assistant Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Planning; under President Bush he was Special Assistant for Asian Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
		Previously he served on the staff of several U.S. Senate Committees and was an analyst at RAND.
	www.duke.edu /web/tiss/archives/conferencerecords/Deception/Pillsbury.html (271 words)

	Microsoft Skills Assessment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Whether you are looking to evaluate and improve your own technology skills, or for a comprehensive skills analysis of your organization, Microsoft Skills Assessment can help you or your team achieve project success.
		Complete a Microsoft Skills Assessment for Individuals and you will receive a personalized learning plan to help you understand if you are ready to implement specific business solutions.
		Microsoft Skills Assessment for Organizations will show you how to analyze skill gaps throughout your organization, design custom learning plans to boost productivity, optimize the potential of your personnel, and more.
	www.microsoft.com /learning/assessment (125 words)

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