Defense Planning for National Security: Navigation AIDS for the Mystery Tour

ISBN-13: 9781782666509 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 70 str.

Colin S. Gray;Strategic Studies Institute;U. S. Army War College Press

Opis

The challenge that is defense planning includes: "educated futurology" and the humanities as methodological approaches; futurists and scenarios, trend spotting and defense analysis; the impossibility of science in studying the future; the impossibility of verification by empirical testing of hypotheses; the value of the humanities which are politics, strategy, and history for defense planning; the use and misuse of analogy; learning from history; why and how strategic history works; and recommendations for the Army. What can be learned from history and what cannot are discussed in this analysis.