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War, Strategy, and Military Effectiveness.
Shows how studying military and strategic history can help us confront problems of war and peace in the twenty-first century.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; 1 History and the Future; History and Discontinuities; History, the Future, Human Nature, and the United States; The Future, the Nature of War, and Military Power; The Future, the United States, and the Nature of Government; Military Innovation and Adaptation and the Future; The Future: Implications for the American Military; 2 Thucydides and Clausewitz; Clausewitz; Clausewitz and Strategy; Clausewitz and Friction; Thucydides: The Clausewitzian Historian; Theory and the Twenty-First Century; Additional Reading.
- 3 Clausewitz out, Computers in: Military Culture and Technological Hubris4 Changing the Principles of War?; Conclusion; 5 Military Culture Does Matter; The Historical Parameters of Military Culture; Military Culture in the Next Century; Conclusion; Additional Works Not Cited; 6 History and Strategic Planning; Strategic Planning: Its Origins; Strategic Planning: The Early Phases, 1700-1815; The Wars for Empire; The Seven Years' War, 1756-1763; The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars; The Industrial Revolution; The Crimea; The American Civil War; The German Wars of Unification.
- Strategic Planning and World War IStrategic Planning: The Interwar Years and World War II; The Axis; Strategic Planning: The Allies; The British; The Americans; Conclusion; Additional Readings; 7 Thoughts on Red Teaming; Red Teaming in the Instruction and Evaluation of Officers; Red Teaming and War Planning; Testing Doctrine and Developing Operational Concepts: The Processes of Experimentation; The U.S. Navy; The German Army; The British Army; Understanding the Enemy; Red Teaming and Training; Red Teaming and Strategic Assumptions; Conclusion; 8 The Distant Framework of War.
- The Patterns of WarRevolutionary War; A Century of Peace?; The Wars of Mid-Century; The Prussian Wars and the Remaking of Europe; Conclusion: The Results of Bismarcks Wars; 9 The Problem of German Military Effectiveness, 1900-1945; Political Effectiveness; Strategic Effectiveness; Operational and Tactical Effectiveness: The Joint Arena; Operational and Tactical Effectiveness: The Army; Operational and Tactical Effectiveness: The Luftwaffe; Operational and Tactical Effectiveness: The Kriegsmarine; Conclusion; Additional Readings; 10 Reflections on the Combined Bomber Offensive.
- The Influence of DoctrineThe Campaign; The Failure to Develop Long-Range Fighters; The Effects; Contributions of the CBO; The Opportunity Costs; Conclusion; Additional Reading; 11 The Air War in the Gulf; The Political-Strategic Dimension; The Air War against Iraq; The Attacks on Iraqi Leadership; Numbers, Numbers, and the KTO; Additional Reading; 12 Thoughts on British Intelligence in World War II and the Implications for Intelligence in the Twenty-First Century; The Problem: British Intelligence before the Second World War; Expanding Intelligence and Changing Culture.