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On flexibility : recovery from technological and doctrinal surprise on the battlefield /
This book addresses one of the basic questions in military studies: How can armies cope effectively with technological and doctrinal surprises--ones that leave them vulnerable to new weapons systems and/or combat doctrines?. Author Meir Finkel contends that the current paradigm--with its over-depend...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés Hebrew |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford Security Studies,
©2011.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Prediction and intelligence : the dominant approach in force planning and its failure to answer the challenge of technological and doctrinal surprise
- Conceptual and doctrinal flexibility
- Organizational and technological flexibility
- Cognitive and command and control (C2) flexibility
- The mechanism for lesson learning and rapid dissemination
- The German recovery from the surprise of British chaff
- The German recovery from the Soviet T-34 tank surprise
- The Israeli recovery from the Egyptian Sagger missile surprise
- The Israeli air force recovery from the Arab anti-aircraft missile surprise
- The slow British recovery from the German armor and anti-tank tactics
- The slow Soviet recovery from the surprise of low-intensity conflict in Afghanistan
- The French failure to recover from the surprise of the German blitzkrieg.