Contingency Plans For War In Western Europe 1920 1940

Author : Mark Jacobsen
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 0833006614

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Contingency Plans for War in Western Europe, 1920-1940 by Mark Jacobsen Pdf

In an attempt to determine the effects of war planning on the behavior of countries in crises and wars, this report analyzes the national-level planning that preceded and shaped the German invasion of the Low Countries and northern France in 1940. As a study of war planning in the 1930s by France, Britain, Belgium, and Germany, it sheds considerable light on the way in which political, financial, and manpower constraints guide the military planning process: Threat assessment played a comparatively minor part in planning. Instead, available resources were the single most important determinant of plans. The situation of a totalitarian nation bent on changing the European status quo opposed by a coalition of democracies offers obvious analogies with present-day NATO. The authors discuss the similarities and differences in the historical and current situations, and draw three types of parallels: conceptual parallels, planning process comparisons, and direct similarities.

Author : Wim Klinkert
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004519244

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Dutch Military Thought, 1919-1939 by Wim Klinkert Pdf

In the interwar period potential future military conflict seemed particularly devastating for military and civilian society alike, thanks to developments in chemical, air and armoured warfare. This study analyses how a small state, the Netherlands, approached this conundrum and aimed to survive a future war.

Author : Allan R. Millett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781416576846

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Calculations by Allan R. Millett Pdf

Eight scholars - Alan R. Millett, Paul Kennedy, Earl F. Ziemke, Alvin D. Coox, Williamson Murray, Brian Sullivan, Steven Ross and Calvin L. Christman - examine the methods used by the major powers of World War II to evaluate their own and their enemies' military capacity.

Author : Colin S. Gray
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191005350

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Strategy and Defence Planning by Colin S. Gray Pdf

Strategy and Defence Planning: Meeting the Challenge of Uncertainty explores and examines why and how security communities prepare purposefully for their future defence. The author explains that defence planning is the product of interplay among political process, historical experience, and the logic of strategy. The theory of strategy best reveals both the nature and the working of defence planning. Political 'ends', strategic 'ways', and military 'means' all fed by reigning, if not always recognized, assumptions, organize the subject well with a template that can serve any time, place, and circumstance. The book is designed to help understanding of what can appear to be a forbiddingly complex as well as technical subject. A good part of the problem for officials charged with defence planning duties is expressed in the second part of the book's title. The real difficulty, which rarely is admitted by those tasked with defence planning duty, is that defence planning can only be guesswork. But, because defence preparation is always expensive, not untypically is politically unpopular, yet obviously can be supremely important, claims to knowledge about the truly unknowable persist. In truth, we cannot do defence planning competently, because our ignorance of the future precludes understanding of what our society will be shown by future events to need. The challenge faced by the author was to identify ways in which our problems with the inability to know the future in any detail in advance-the laws of nature, in other words-may best be met and mitigated. Professor Gray argues that our understanding of human nature, of politics, and of strategic history, does allow us to make prudent choices in defence planning that hopefully will prove 'good enough'.

Author : Peter Jackson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191543142

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France and the Nazi Menace by Peter Jackson Pdf

France and the Nazi Menace examines the French response to the challenge posed by National Socialist Germany in the years 1933-1939. It focuses on the relationship between the intelligence on German intentions and capabilities and the evolution of French national policy from the rise of Hitler in 1933 to the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. Based on extensive archival research, it considers the nature of the intelligence process and the place of intelligence within the French policy making establishment during the inter-war period. The central argument in the book is that the German threat was far from the only challenge facing French national leaders in an era of economic depression and profound ideological discord. Only after the national humiliation at the Munich Conference did the threat from Nazi Germany take precedence over France's internal problems in the making of policy.

Author : William T. Johnsen
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813168364

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The Origins of the Grand Alliance by William T. Johnsen Pdf

This “uncommonly astute study” examines the early development of the US-UK military alliance that would eventually lead to victory in WWII (Paul Miles, author of FDR’s Admiral). On December 12, 1937, Japanese aircraft sank the American gunboat Panay outside Nanjing, China. Although the Japanese apologized, President Roosevelt set Captain Royal Ingersoll to London to begin conversations with the British admiralty about Japanese aggression in the Far East. While few Americans remember the Panay Incident, it was the start of what would become the “Special Relationship” between the United States and Great Britain. In The Origins of the Grand Alliance, William T. Johnsen provides the first comprehensive analysis of Anglo-American military collaboration before the Second World War. He sets the stage by examining Anglo-French and Anglo-American coalition military planning from 1900 through World War I and the interwar years. Johnsen also considers the formulation of policy and grand strategy, operational planning, and the creation of the command structure and channels of communication. He addresses vitally important logistical and materiel issues, particularly the difficulties of war production. Drawn from extensive sources and private papers held in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States, Johnsen’s exhaustively researched study casts new light on the twentieth century’s most significant alliance.

Author : Rand Corporation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Abstracts
ISBN : UCSD:31822015991094

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Selected Rand Abstracts by Rand Corporation Pdf

Includes publications previously listed in the supplements to the Index of selected publications of the Rand Corporation (Oct. 1962-Feb. 1963)

Author : Rand Corporation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Military policy
ISBN : NWU:35556018462606

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A Bibliography of Selected Rand Publications by Rand Corporation Pdf

Author : George E. Blau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : IND:39000003543241

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The German Campaign in Russia by George E. Blau Pdf

Author : Jeffrey Simon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Europe
ISBN : UCR:31210024769984

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NATO-Warsaw Pact Force Mobilization by Jeffrey Simon Pdf

Author : Paul K. Davis,Rand Corporation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Computer war games
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118937312

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Search for a Red Agent to be Used in War Games and Simulations by Paul K. Davis,Rand Corporation Pdf

"This paper describes an ongoing program to develop automated models (Red Agents) of plausible Soviet behavior for use in war games and simulations. It defines Red Agents and outlines objectives for their use. It reviews technical difficulties and challenges associated with reflecting accurate portrayals of plausible Soviet behavior at various levels of command. It reports that experience with prototype Red Agents suggests a profound potential for strategy analysis."--Rand Abstracts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1130 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : UOM:39015079896257

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A London Bibliography of the Social Sciences by Anonim Pdf

Vols. 1-4 include material to June 1, 1929.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Research
ISBN : UOM:39015038685007

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RAOP by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stuart S. Nagel
Publisher : JAI Press(NY)
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Policy sciences
ISBN : 0892326638

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Research in Public Policy Analysis and Management by Stuart S. Nagel Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Science
ISBN : PSU:000047867680

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Government Reports Announcements & Index by Anonim Pdf