Shaping strategy : the civil-military politics of strategic assessment /

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Good strategic assessment does not guarantee success in international relations, but bad strategic assessment dramatically increases the risk of disastrous failure. The most glaring example of this reality is playing out in Iraq today. But what explains why states and their leaders are sometimes so...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brooks, Risa
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2008.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Geschichte 1960-2003.
Civil-military relations > History > 20th century.
Strategy > History > 20th century.
Relations pouvoir civil-pouvoir militaire > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Stratégie > Histoire > 20e siècle.
HISTORY > Military > Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
Civil-military relations.
Strategy.
Strategie
Lage > Militär
Zivil-militärische Zusammenarbeit
Weltkrieg > 1914-1918
Vorgeschichte
Großbritannien
Deutschland
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The significance of strategic assessment
  • Explaining variation in strategic assessment
  • Egypt in the mid-1960s
  • Egypt in the 1970s
  • Britain and Germany and the First World War
  • Pakistan and Turkey in the late 1990s
  • U.S. postconflict planning for the 2003 Iraq War
  • Conclusion: Findings and implications.

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