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Practical soldiers : Israel's military thought and its formative factors /
"This book suggests a general framework for the analysis of formative factors in military thought and offers an account of the Israel Defense Force's state of intellectualism and modernity. This account is followed by an attempt to trace the factors that have shaped Israeli military though...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2015.
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| Colección: | History of warfare.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Tables; Chapter 1; Military Thought and the Formative Factors Affecting It ; The Intellectual and Modern Focus of Military Thought; Intellectual Focus; Modern Focus; Realist vs. Cultural Formative Factors; Is there such thing as a universal strategic culture or military culture?; Formative Factors: The Systemic Level; Technology as a Dominant Dimension; The Broadening of War; The Emergence of the Large Citizens' Armies, and War Withdrawing from the Direct Battlefield; "National Logistics."
- Expressions of the Broadening of War in Military Thought The Dimensions of War: Squaring the Triangle; Dimensions of Strategy; The Levels-of-War; Mission Command; The Narrowing of War; The Impact of Weapons' Lethality and Improved Performance; The Rising Cost of Weapons Systems; Lower Casualty Rates; Control of War; Have LICs contributed to the narrowing of war?; Expression in Military Thought ; The Complexity of War; The Pervasiveness and Importance of LICs; Zeitgeist; War in a Given Period; Intellectual Climate; Morality, Law and War; The Unit (State) Level.
- The State's Specific Strategic Conditions Organizational Factors; Promotion Aspirations as a Barrier Against Intellectualism; The Military Mind; "Doers" vs. Thinkers"; Institutionalized Military Intellectualism; Lesson Learning Processes; The Level of the Individual; Thinkers' Operational Code: Fatalists, "Military Intellectuals," "Intellectual Soldiers," And "Practical Soldiers"; Spiritual Fathers; Personal Experience ; Conclusion; Chapter 2; Israeli Intellectual and Modern Focus; Intellectual Weakness; Symptoms of Poor Intellectualism in the Military.
- "Absorptive Imitation" of Foreign Military Thinking False Intellectualism and Intellectual Pretense ; A Considerable Number of Positive Symptoms; Vibrant Military Thinking during the Pre-State Years; Vibrant Military Thinking during Israel's Early Years and a Renewed Interest in Theory since the Mid-1990s; The Relative Popularity of Military History; The Establishment of the Tactical Command College; Great Debates; Intellectual Efforts to Understand Attrition; A More Critical Attitude toward American Concepts after 2006.
- Climbing the Promotion Ladder from Junior to Lower-Senior Ranks Has Only Strengthened Officers' Interest in WritingThe Detrimental Effect of the IDF's Lack of Intellectualism; The Cost of Poor Intellectualism; The Danger Entailed in Emulated Doctrines; Damage Inflicted by Phony Intellectualism; Modern Focus; Types of Conflict; Levels-of-War; Dimensions of Strategy; A Technological Bent; The Decline of the Operational Dimension: From Decisive Victory to "Victory Image"; The Erosion of Traditional Force Multipliers; A Changing Logistical Logic.