Accession Inventory of the Dan Caldwell papers
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Title: Dan Caldwell papers
Date (inclusive): 1961-2024
Collection Number: 2021C36
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In English
Physical Description:
7 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize folder, memorabilia
(2.72 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Pepperdine University's Seaver College and chairperson of the Committee on
Student Veterans. The Dan Caldwell papers contains notes, manuscript drafts, his research on permissive action links (PALs),
and research materials related to U.S. foreign policy in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan.
Creator:
Caldwell, Dan (Dan Edward) (1948)
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Box OCM11 may not be used without permission of the Archivist. The remainder of the collection is open for research; materials
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Dr. Dan Caldwell is an Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Pepperdine University's Seaver College, where
he currently serves as chairperson of the Committee on Student Veterans. An expert on American foreign policy, arms control,
international security, and Russian-American relations, Dr. Caldwell has written and advised on policy and military matters
throughout his 35-year academic career. Previously, he served for three years on active duty as an officer in the U.S. Naval
Reserve and held positions at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and the Executive Office of the President
in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Chair of the Council's Academic Outreach Initiative.
Dr. Caldwell earned A.B., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Stanford University and an M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
at Tufts University. He is the author of more than sixty articles, the editor or co-editor of five books, and the author of
five books: Vortex of Conflict: U.S. Policy toward Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq, the third edition of Seeking Security
in an Insecure World (co-authored with Robert E. Williams), World Politics and You, The Dynamics of Domestic Politics and
Arms Control: The SALT II Treaty Ratification Debate, and American-Soviet Relations: From 1947 to the Nixon-Kissinger Grand
Design.
Scope and Content of Collection
Includes notes, manuscript drafts, and research materials related to U.S. foreign policy in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan.
The materials were created while Dr. Caldwell was conducting research for his publication, Vortex of conflict: U.S. policy
toward Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq. Also includes notes and research files related to permissive action links (PALs),
the devices used to prevent the accidental or unauthorized detonation of nuclear weapons. Includes materials related to Reserve
Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) activities at Stanford University and other United States universities.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001-2009
United States -- Military policy
United States -- Foreign relations -- Afghanistan
Afghanistan -- Foreign relations -- United States
United States -- Foreign relations -- Pakistan
Pakistan -- Foreign relations -- United States
United States -- Foreign relations -- Iraq
Iraq -- Foreign relations -- United States
Nuclear weapons
Nuclear disarmament
United States. Army. Reserve Officers' Training Corps
Accession Inventory
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No attempt at intellectual arrangement has been made. The depth of description varies depending on the format of the materials
and the amount of pre-existing description received when the materials were acquired. A collection might also be labeled an
"Accession Inventory" if it is fully digital and the digital files have yet to be processed.
Paper material
box 1, folder 1
Chapter 1 1994-2009
Description provided by collection donor: Newspaper advertisement: "War with Iraq is Not in America's National Interest";
Newspaper advertisement: "Osama bin Laden: I Want You to Invade Iraq"; Caldwell personal notes on War with Iraq: A Debate"
with John Mearsheimer, Steven Walt, Max Boot, and William Kristol, February 3, 2003; Dan Caldwell, "Major Mistakes Made in
Iraq War," March 23, 2003, Pepperdine University Press Release; Caldwell notes on "Nuclear Proliferation in Iran," by Greg
Gerardi, Monterey Institute of International Studies, December 12, 1994
box 1, folder 2
box 1, folder 3-7
Chapter 3 [Folders 1-5 of 5] 1979-2018
Description provided by collection donor: Table: Coalition Fatalities in Afghanistan, 2001-2014; Table: Statistical Profiles
of Afghanistan and Pakistan; U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, "Soviet Options in Afghanistan," Interagency Intelligence Memorandum,
September 1979; Top Secret/Declassified; U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, "The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: Implications
for Warning," Interagency Intelligence Memorandum, October 1980; Top Secret/Declassified; Stephen Biddle, "Salvaging Governance
Reform in Afghanistan," Policy Innovation Memorandum No. 16, Council on Foreign Relations, April 2012; U.S. White House, "White
Paper of the Interagency Policy Report on U.S. Policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan," March 2009; Caldwell notes on Michael
C. Keays, Counterinsurgency and Political-Military Team Leader, Afghanistan Desk, State Department, December 8, 2010; Caldwell
notes on Ambassador Robert Blake presentation, "India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan," Pacific Council on International Policy,
August 6, 2009; COL J. B. Vowell, Friends of U.S. Army, "Friends of Rakkasans," Newsletter, May 2015.; GEN Stanley McChrystal,
"COMISAF's Initial Assessment," Headquarters, International Security Assistance Force, Kabul, Afghanistan, 30 August 2009;
Don Belt, "Struggle for the Soul of Pakistan," National Geographic, Sept. 2007; Caldwell notes, Pakistan President Pervez
Musharraf, Teleconference, Council on Foreign Relations, Set. 25, 2006; Caldwell notes, Pakistan Foreign Minister Makdoon
Shah Mahmood Quereshi, "Pakistan beyond the War on Terror," October 7, 2009; Caldwell notes, "Pakistan: A Trip Report," Stimson
Center, February 21, 2001; Pau K. Kerr and Mary Beth Nikitin, Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons: Proliferation and Security Issues,
Congressional Research Service, 7-5700, May 10, 2012; Daniel Markey, "Support Process Over Personalities in Pakistan," Policy
Innovation Memorandum No. 16, Council on Foreign Relations, No. 28, February 26, 2013; Joshua Hammer, "Ater Musharraf," The
Atlantic, October 2009; Robert D. Kaplan, "Pakistan's Fatal Shore," The Atlantic, May 2009; Sub-file on the Soviet Invasion
of Afghanistan, 1979-1980; Sub-file on Afghanistan Peace Negotiations; Sub-file on Pakistan
box 1, folder 8
Afghan Peace 2019-2020
box 2, folder 1-2
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan [Folders 1-2 of 2] 1979-2012
box 2, folder 3
Chapter 4 1994-2014
Description provided by collection donor: GEN Barry McCaffrey, "Visit to Iraq and Kuwait, 31 October-6 November 2008," Memorandum
for COL Michael Meese, USMA, November 4, 2008; U.S. Agency for International Development, Iraq's Legacy of Terror: Mass Graves,
January 2004; Caldwell notes on Tim McCarthy, "Nuclear Proliferation in Iraq," Monterey Institute of International Studies,
December 12, 1994; Dan Caldwell, "Iraq: 'Wrong War, at the Wrong Time with the Wrong Strategy," Columbia International Affairs
Online (CIAO), August 2005; Caldwell notes on Senator Chuck Hagel, "Iraq after the Hand-off," Pacific Council on International
Policy, June 29, 2004; Caldwell notes on presentations by Frank Wisner and Edward Djerejian, "Guiding Principles for O.S.
Post-Conflict Policy in Iraq," Council on Foreign Relations, December 18, 2002; Newspaper advertisement, "War with Iraq Is
Not in America's National Interest"; Dan Caldwell, "Major Mistakes Made in Iraq War," The Graphic, Pepperdine University,
March 23, 2006; Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, "No-Fly Zone Update," Sept. 30, 2002; Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld,
"Background Briefing on Iraq," Oct. 1, 2002; Newspaper advertisement, "The Question that Should Be Asked about the President's
Iraq Policy," New York Times, October 1, 2002
box 2, folder 4
[Untitled file] 2001-2011
box 2, folder 5-6
Pakistan [Folders 1-2 of 2] 2008-2013
box 2, folder 7
Chapter 5 2001-2009
Description provided by collection donor: Caldwell lecture notes: "September 11. 2001: The Roots of the Conflict"; IISS, "Defining
Terrorism," Strategic Comments, November 2001; Cold War International History Project, "A Soviet Analysis of Counterrevolutionary
Commanders in Afghanistan," Woodrow Wilson Center, November 2001; "Perspectives on 9.11.2001: A Special Issue." The Watson
Center, Brown University, Summer/Fall 2001; Caldwell notes on presentations by John Arquilla and Jonathan Tucker, Pacific
Council on International Policy, November 17, 2001; Caldwell notes on conference call with Peter Bergen, "Understanding the
Terrorist Threat," Council on Foreign Relations, October 3, 2001; U.S. Department of State, "Public Announcement: Worldwide
Caution," September 7, 2001; Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, Washington, D.C., Monthly Newsletter focusing on Saudi Arabia's
condemnation of the 9/11 attacks on the U.S., September, October 2001; Saudi Arabia, vol. 18, no. 3 (Fall 2001); Caldwell
notes on Condoleezza Rice's testimony before the 9/11 Commission, April 8, 2004; Prime Minister Tony Blair, Speech on the
Iraq Crisis," The Guardian, March 18, 2003; David Hastings Dunn, "Bush, 11 September and the Conflicting Strategies of the
'War on Terrorism,'" Irish Studies in International Affairs, vol. 16 (2005); George W. Bush, "The Global War on Terrorism,"
Speech at the National Defense University, October 23, 2007; Caldwell notes on presentation by Reza Aslan, "How to Win a
Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror," Burkle Center, UCLA, May 26, 2009
box 3, folder 1-2
Chapter 6 [Folders 1-2 of 2] 1996-2008
Description provided by collection donor: Dan Caldwell lecture text, "From Unilateralism to Multilateralism and Back: The
Foreign Policy of George W. Bush"; Dan Caldwell lecture notes, "The 1991 Gulf War: Sources and Analysis"; Caldwell notes on
presentations by Max Boot and Ivo Daalder, "Bush and the Post-9/11 World: Two Perspectives," Occidental College, February
27, 2004; George W. Bush, "Full Text: Bush's National Security Strategy," Sept. 2002; George W. Bush, "Remarks by the President
at 2002 Graduation of the United States Military Academy," June 1, 2002; Caldwell notes on presentation by Warren Christopher,
"Foreign Policy of the Bush Administration: A One-Year Assessment," UCLA, January 23, 2002; Caldwell notes on presentation
by James Steinberg on the Bush Foreign Policy," Pacific Council on International Policy, May 6, 2003; George W. Bush, "Remarks
by the President at the 20th Anniversary of the National Endowment for Democracy, Chamber of Commerce, Washington, DC, Nov.
6, 2003; Senator Robert Byrd, "Reckless Administration May Reap Disastrous Consequences," Statement on the Senate Floor, Feb.
12, 2003; Lawrence Korb and Caroline Wadhams, "A Critique of the Bush Administration's National Security Strategy," Policy
Analysis Brief, The Stanley Foundation, June 2006
box 3, folder 3
Chapter 7 2001-2007
Description provided by collection donor: Peter Navarro and Aron Spencer, "September 11, 2001: Assessing the Costs of Terrorism,"
The Milken Institute Review, Fourth Quarter 2001; Scott Wallsten and Katrine Kosec, "The Iraq Economic War Costs," The Milken
Institute Review, Third Quarter 2006; Linda Bilmes and Joseph E. Stiglitz, "Encore: The Costs of the War in Iraq," The Milken
Institute Review, Fourth Quarter 2006
box 3, folder 4-5
Chapter 8 [Folders 1-2 of 2] 1993-2011
Description provided by collection donor: U.S. National Intelligence Council, "Iraq's Continuing Programs for Weapons of Mass
Destruction," National Intelligence Estimate 2002-16HC, October 2002; Charles Gogan, "Partners in Time: The CIA and Afghanistan
since 1979," World Policy Journal, vol 10, no. 2, 1993; subsequent article in 2008; U.S. Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities
of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction, Chaired by Lawrence Silberman and Charles Robb, Report to the
President, March 31, 2005; United Kingdom, Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Assessment of the British Government; David
Hannay, "Three Iraq Intelligence Failures Reconsidered," Survival, vol. 51, no. 6 (2010) pons of Mass Destruction," Survival,
vol. 51, no. 6 (2010); Lawrence Freedman, "War in Iraq: Selling the Threat," Survival, vol. 46, no. 2 (Summer 2004):7-50;
Rolf Ekeus, "Reassessment: The IISS Strategic Dossier on Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction," Survival, vol. 46, no. 2 (Summer
2004): 73-88; Caldwell notes on presentation by Greg Thielman, "Intelligence on Iraq: What Went Wrong and What Went Right,"
Pepperdine University, Oct. 24, 2003; Kenneth Pollack, "Spies, Lies, and Weapons: What Went Wrong," The Atlantic, January/February
2004
box 3, folder 6
Chapter 9 2002-2010
Description provided by collection donor: GEN Eric Shenseki, "End of Tour Memorandum for Secretary of State," 10 June 2003;
MG Peter Chiarelli, "Task Force Baghdad: Operation Iraq Freedom II," Copy of PowerPoint presentation to the Council on Foreign
Relations, 11 June 2005; Caldwell notes on GEN Wesley Clark, "On Iraq," presentation to the Pacific Council on International
Policy, Oct. 3, 2002; Caldwell notes on presentation by Anthony Brenton, Deputy Head of Mission, British Embassy, Washington,
DC, "Iraq: The British Perspective," Pepperdine University, Jan. 28, 2004; Seymour Hersh, "The General's Report," The New
Yorker, June 25, 2007ton; Glen Gentile, Thomas Rid, Philipp Rotmann, David Tohn, and Jaron Wharton, "Progress, Dissent, and
Counterinsurgency: An Exchange," Survival, vol 51, no. 6 (December 2009-Jan. 2010): 189-202
box 3, folder 7
Chapter 10 [Folder 1 of 3] 2002-2010
Description provided by collection donor: James Fallows, "How Post-War Planning Bit the Dust," The Atlantic, January/February
2004; Nora Bensahel, "Mission Not Accomplished: What Went Wrong with Iraqi Reconstruction," Journal of Strategic Studies,
vol. 29, no. 3 (June 2006); James Dobbins, "Guidelines for Nation Builders," Strategic Studies Quarterly, Fall 2010; Declassified
Secret Report, "Lessons from the War in Afghanistan," Source Document 129: Towards an International History of the War in
Afghanistan, 1979-1989, vol.I, Cold War International History Project, 2002; U.S. National Security Council, "National Strategy
for Victory in Iraq," Nov. 30, 2005; Robert Perito, "The U.S. Experience with Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan:
Lessons Identified," Special Report, US Institute of Peace; Faleh Jabar, "Postconflict Iraq: A Race for Stability, Reconstruction,
and Legitimacy," Special Report, US Institute of Peace; U.S. Government Accountability Office, "Provincial Reconstruction
Teams in Afghanistan and Iraq," Report to Congress, Oct. 1, 2008; John Hamre, "Iraq's Post-Conflict Reconstruction: A Field
Report and Recommendations," July 17, 2003; Edward Djerejian and Frank Wisner, Co-Chairs, Guiding Principles for U.S. Post-Conflict
Policy in Iraq, Council on Foreign Relations/Rice University, 2003; Richard Murphy and C. Richard Nelson, Winning the Peace:
Managing a Successful Transition in Iraq, Policy Paper, The Atlantic Council/American University Jan. 2003
box 4, folder 1-2
Chapter 10 [Folders 2-3 of 3] 2002-2010
Description provided by collection donor: James Fallows, "How Post-War Planning Bit the Dust," The Atlantic, January/February
2004; Nora Bensahel, "Mission Not Accomplished: What Went Wrong with Iraqi Reconstruction," Journal of Strategic Studies,
vol. 29, no. 3 (June 2006); James Dobbins, "Guidelines for Nation Builders," Strategic Studies Quarterly, Fall 2010; Declassified
Secret Report, "Lessons from the War in Afghanistan," Source Document 129: Towards an International History of the War in
Afghanistan, 1979-1989, vol.I, Cold War International History Project, 2002; U.S. National Security Council, "National Strategy
for Victory in Iraq," Nov. 30, 2005; Robert Perito, "The U.S. Experience with Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan:
Lessons Identified," Special Report, US Institute of Peace; Faleh Jabar, "Postconflict Iraq: A Race for Stability, Reconstruction,
and Legitimacy," Special Report, US Institute of Peace; U.S. Government Accountability Office, "Provincial Reconstruction
Teams in Afghanistan and Iraq," Report to Congress, Oct. 1, 2008; John Hamre, "Iraq's Post-Conflict Reconstruction: A Field
Report and Recommendations," July 17, 2003; Edward Djerejian and Frank Wisner, Co-Chairs, Guiding Principles for U.S. Post-Conflict
Policy in Iraq, Council on Foreign Relations/Rice University, 2003; Richard Murphy and C. Richard Nelson, Winning the Peace:
Managing a Successful Transition in Iraq, Policy Paper, The Atlantic Council/American University Jan. 2003
box 4, folder 3-4
Chapter 11 [Folders 1-2 of 2] 2002-2008
Description provided by collection donor: Military Review, Special edition: Interagency Reader, Combined Arms Center, Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas, June 2008; Nicholas Lehman, "Without a Doubt: Has Condoleezza Rice Changed George W. Bush, or Has He
Changed Her?" The New Yorker, Oct. 14 and 21, 2002; Glen Kessler and Peter Slevin, "Rice Under Fire," Washington Post, October
13, 2003; Sheryl Henderson Blunt, "Unflappable Condi Rice," Christianity Today, Sept. 2003
box 4, folder 5
Chapter 12: Allies 2001-2011
Description provided by collection donor: James Kirkup, "Head of British Army questions deadline for Afghan troop withdrawal,"
The Telegraph, June 22, 2011; William Wallace and Christopher Phillips, "Reassessing the special relationship," International
Affairs vol. 85, no. 2 (2009) 263-284; "Speech by Tony Blair, Prime Minister, Labour Party Conference," Brighton, Oct. 2,
2001; "International Security Assistance Force (ISAF): Facts and Figures," Feb. 2010; Adam Roberts, "Doctrine and Reality
in Afghanistan," Survival, vol. 51, no. 1 (Feb.- March 2009): 29-60
box 4, folder 6-8
Chapter 13 [Folders 1-3 of 3] 2002-2011
Description provided by collection donor: Fouad Ajami, "Obama's Afghan Struggle," Hoover; Amitai Etzioni, "Whose COIN?" Joint
Forces Quarterly, Issue 60, 1st Quarter, 2011; Peter Feaver, "Anatomy of the Surge," Commentary, April 2008; Raphael Cohen,
"Tale of Two Manuals," Prism, vol. 2, no. 1; Eliot Cohen, Conrad Crane, Jan Horvath, and John Nagl, "Principles, Imperatives,
and Paradoxes of Counterinsurgency," Military Review, March-April 2006; Caldwell notes on Q and A with Michael Gordon and
Richard Holbrooke, "U.S. Policy in Afghanistan," Council on Foreign Relations, Dec. 15, 2009; David Hastings Dunn, "'Quacking
like a duck'? Bush II and presidential power in the second term," International Affairs, vol. 82, no. 1 (2006): 95-120; Steven
N. Simon, "After the surge: The case for US military disengagement from Iraq," Council on Foreign Relations, Feb. 2007; GEN
David Petraeus, "Letter to Multi-National Force (MNF)," 15 March 2007; Thomas Ricks, "Understanding the Surge in Iraq and
Wat's Ahead?" Presentation to the Foreign Policy Research Institute, May 29, 2009
box 5, folder 1-2
Chapter 14 [Folders 1-2 of 2] 2003-2010
Description provided by collection donor: Watson Institute, Brown University, "The Lessons of Iraq"; Ann Marlowe, "The Picture
Awaits: The Birth of Modern Counterinsurgency," World Affairs, Summer 2009; Robert Kagan, "End of Dreams, Return of History,"
Policy Review, Aug/Set. 2007; Bruce Jentleson, "America's Global Role after Bush," Survival, vol 49, no. 3 (Autumn 2007):
179-200; GEN Wesley Clark, Speech to South Carolina State University, November 6, 2003; Caldwell notes on discussion by Lawrence
Korb and Steven Miller, "More or Less Secure?" Pepperdine University, October 15, 2004; Transcript of discussion among Brent
Scowcroft, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Steve Clemons, "Charting a US Foreign Policy Road Map for 2005 and Beyond," New America
Foundation; GEN David Petraeus, "Briefing at the Pentagon," April 26, 2007
box 5, folder 3
Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan Maps 1979-2009
box 5, folder 4
Iraq, Afghanistan Photos 2001-2010
Oversize material
os_folder 1
Map of Afghanistan 1972
os_folder 1
Map of Iraq 1978
Memorabilia
box OCM11
Incremental Materials
These incremental materials were processed to a baseline standard that employs an accession inventory for description. An
accession inventory is a basic description of an archival collection with no attempt at intellectual arrangement. The depth
of description varies depending on the format of the materials and the amount of pre-existing description received when the
materials were acquired.
Paper materials
box 6, folder 1
Pakistan and China 1967, 1986-1987, 2007, undated
box 6, folder 2
Media clippings relevant to Permissive Action Links 1969-2000
box 6, folder 3
Interview notes, feedback, and other materials related to Dan Caldwell's pulications on PAL; PAL paper 1981-2005
box 6, folder 4
Reports relevant to PALs 1961-1990, undated