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Author : John L. Romjue
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Europe
ISBN : UCAL:B3907696
Author : John L. Romjue
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Europe
ISBN : UIUC:30112105106857
Author : John L. Romjue
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780788129582
Between 1991 and 1993, the Army formulated a fighting doctrine recast to fit the power demands of a new strategic world. This new power-order replaced the Army's earlier "AirLand Battle" doctrine, first issued in 1982. This monograph addresses several questions revolving around the rapid replacement, less than 2 years after its success in the desert war, of a recognized and successful fighting doctrine. Discusses the roots of U.S. Army doctrine and the antecedent developments leading to the Army's recasting of its key battle doctrine. Examines the mechanism of the process of change, the effects of the new doctrine and how it was implemented.
Author : M. Taylor Fravel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691210339
What changes in China's modern military policy reveal about military organizations and strategySince the 1949 Communist Revolution, China has devised nine different military strategies, which the People's Liberation Army (PLA) calls "strategic guidelines." What accounts for these numerous changes? Active Defense offers the first systematic look at China's military strategy from the mid-twentieth century to today. Exploring the range and intensity of threats that China has faced, M. Taylor Fravel illuminates the nation's past and present military goals and how China sought to achieve them, and offers a rich set of cases for deepening the study of change in military organizations.Drawing from diverse Chinese-language sources, including memoirs of leading generals, military histories, and document collections that have become available only in the last two decades, Fravel shows why transformations in military strategy were pursued at certain times and not others. He focuses on the military strategies adopted in 1956, 1980, and 1993-when the PLA was attempting to wage war in a new kind of way-to show that China has pursued major change in its strategic guidelines when there has been a significant shift in the conduct of warfare in the international system and when China's Communist Party has been united.Delving into the security threats China has faced over the last seven decades, Active Defense offers a detailed investigation into how and why states alter their defense policies.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Armored vehicles, Military
ISBN : MINN:30000010464380
The magazine of mobile warfare.
Author : United States. Department of the Army
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Command of troops
ISBN : OSU:32435069586998
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Military history, Modern
ISBN : UCR:31210023593310
The thirty-six chapters reflect changes in the military art. Each chapter deals with one case drawn from recent military history that illustrates and illuminates a problem with which a modern professional soldier may have to contend. Each case is set in its strategic and operational context, explained in detail, and briefly analyzed.
Author : Benjamin Jensen
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804797382
As entrenched bureaucracies, military organizations might reasonably be expected to be especially resistant to reform and favor only limited, incremental adjustments. Yet, since 1945, the U.S. Army has rewritten its capstone doctrine manual, Operations, fourteen times. While some modifications have been incremental, collectively they reflect a significant evolution in how the Army approaches warfare—making the U.S. Army a crucial and unique case of a modern land power that is capable of change. So what accounts for this anomaly? What institutional processes have professional officers developed over time to escape bureaucracies' iron cage? Forging the Sword conducts a comparative historical process-tracing of doctrinal reform in the U.S. Army. The findings suggest that there are unaccounted-for institutional facilitators of change within military organizations. Thus, it argues that change in military organizations requires "incubators," designated subunits established outside the normal bureaucratic hierarchy, and "advocacy networks" championing new concepts. Incubators, ranging from special study groups to non-Title 10 war games and field exercises, provide a safe space for experimentation and the construction of new operational concepts. Advocacy networks then connect different constituents and inject them with concepts developed in incubators. This injection makes changes elites would have otherwise rejected a contagious narrative.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : UOM:39015051890930
Author : Ingo Trauschweizer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131794054
Focuses on the Seventh Army in West Germany--the largest and best-prepared field army ever deployed by the U.S. in peacetime--to show how the U.S. army redefined its identity, structure, and mission in order to avoid obsolescence during the Cold War era of nuclear weapons and air power.
Author : Thomas G. Mahnken
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231517881
No nation in recent history has placed greater emphasis on the role of technology in planning and waging war than the United States. In World War II the wholesale mobilization of American science and technology culminated in the detonation of the atomic bomb. Competition with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, combined with the U.S. Navy's culture of distributed command and the rapid growth of information technology, spawned the concept of network-centric warfare. And America's post-Cold War conflicts in Iraq, the former Yugoslavia, and Afghanistan have highlighted America's edge. From the atom bomb to the spy satellites of the Cold War, the strategic limitations of the Vietnam War, and the technological triumphs of the Gulf war, Thomas G. Mahnken follows the development and integration of new technologies into the military and emphasizes their influence on the organization, mission, and culture of the armed services. In some cases, advancements in technology have forced different branches of the military to develop competing or superior weaponry, but more often than not the armed services have molded technology to suit their own purposes, remaining resilient in the face of technological challenges. Mahnken concludes with an examination of the reemergence of the traditional American way of war, which uses massive force to engage the enemy. Tying together six decades of debate concerning U.S. military affairs, he discusses how the armed forces might exploit the unique opportunities of the information revolution in the future.
Author : Peter Campbell
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826274267
After the Vietnam War, the U.S. Army considered counterinsurgency (COIN) a mistake to be avoided. Many found it surprising, then, when setbacks in recent conflicts led the same army to adopt a COIN doctrine. Scholarly debates have primarily employed existing theories of military bureaucracy or culture to explain the army’s re-embrace of COIN, but Peter Campbell advances a unique argument centering on military realism to explain the complex evolution of army doctrinal thinking from 1960 to 2008. In five case studies of U.S. Army doctrine, Campbell pits military realism against bureaucratic and cultural perspectives in three key areas—nuclear versus conventional warfare, preferences for offense versus defense, and COIN missions—and finds that the army has been more doctrinally flexible than those perspectives would predict. He demonstrates that decision makers, while vowing in the wake of Vietnam to avoid (COIN) missions, nonetheless found themselves adapting to the geopolitical realities of fighting “low intensity” conflicts. In essence, he demonstrates that pragmatism has won out over dogmatism. At a time when American policymakers remain similarly conflicted about future defense strategies, Campbell’s work will undoubtedly shape and guide the debate.
Author : James A. Dewar,Rand Corporation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118939698
Author : Stephen Robinson
Publisher : Exisle Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781991001016
Did Nazi war criminals deceive the United States military during the Cold War? A new book by a Canberra-based historian tells the story of how America’s most famous and influential military theorist was seduced by the lies of Hitler’s defeated generals. From the author of Panzer Commander Hermann Balck and False Flags comes The Blind Strategist: John Boyd and the American Art of War. Colonel John Boyd, a maverick fighter pilot, revolutionized the American art of war through his ideas on conflict and the human mind. Boyd claimed that victory is won by the side which transitions through 'decision cycles' faster than the enemy and his ideas gained influential converts in the Pentagon who were seeking a new way of waging war after defeat in Vietnam. Although Boyd’s theories became the basis of American military doctrine, he relied upon the fraudulent testimony of former Nazi generals who fabricated historical evidence to disassociate their reputations from their defeat and cover up their willing participation in war crimes. Boyd certainly changed the American art of war, but did he corrupt it in the process? The Blind Strategist separates fact from fantasy and exposes the myths of maneuver warfare through a detailed evidence-based investigation. Discover how maneuver warfare has resulted in catastrophic decisions in this must-read for anybody interested in American military history.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428910836