Defence Planning as Strategic Fact

ISBN-13: 9781032088822 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 156 str.

Henrik Breitenbauch; Andr? Ken Jakobsson

Opis

This book provides and elaborates on an "upstream" focus on the concrete organizational defence and security policy practices of military, civilian administrative and political leaderships. This book was originally published as a special issue of Defence Studies.

Spis treści

Introduction - Defence planning as strategic fact Henrik Breitenbauch and André Ken Jakobsson  1. Defense planning beyond rationalism: the third off set strategy as a case of metagovernance Magnus Christiansson  2. Tradeoffs in defense strategic planning: lessons from the U.S. Quadrennial Defense Review Jordan Tama  3. The role of ideas in defense planning: revisiting the revolution in military affairs Benjamin M. Jensen  4. The US perspective on future war: why the US relies upon Ares rather than Athena Jan Angstrom  5. Rediscovering geography in NATO defence planning Alexander Mattelaer  6. Questioning the “Sanctity” of long-term defense planning as practiced in Central and Eastern Europe Thomas-Durell Young  7. Defense planning when major changes are needed Paul K. Davis  Conclusion - Coda: exploring defence planning in future research Henrik Breitenbauch and André Ken Jakobsson

O autorze

Henrik Breitenbauch heads the Centre for Military Studies in the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. The Centre advises Denmark’s parliament and government on strategy, defence, and security issues.

André Ken Jakobsen is a Carlsberg Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Military Studies in the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, with a project on grey zone conflicts and great power politics.