Breaking with the tradition that literature about the direction and coordination of military forces should only deal with technology and procedures, this work also takes into account the underlying domestic conditions of a conflict, including cultural, personal and political relations. The book focuses on two instances, where fundamental assumptions were at loggerheads and provides a theoretical nuts and bolts approach introduced within the opening chapters.
Breaking with the tradition that literature about the direction and coordination of military forces should only deal with technology and procedures, t...
This book puts military doctrine into a wider perspective, drawing on military history, philosophy, and political science.
Military doctrines are institutional beliefs about what works in war; given the trauma of 9/11 and the ensuing "War on Terror," serious divergences over what the message of the "new" military doctrine ought to be were expected around the world. However, such questions are often drowned in ferocious meta-doctrinal disagreements. What" is" a doctrine, after all?
This book provides a theoretical understanding of such questions. Divided into three parts, the author...
This book puts military doctrine into a wider perspective, drawing on military history, philosophy, and political science.
