Military Realism

Author : Peter Campbell
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826274267

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Military Realism by Peter Campbell Pdf

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 : Benjamin Frankel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135068219

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Realism by Benjamin Frankel Pdf

Realism has been the subject of critical scrutiny for some time and this examination aims to identify and define its strengths and shortcomings, making a contribution to the study of international relations.

Author : Lynn Kessler,Don Winar
Publisher : Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 0890243808

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How to Paint Realistic Military Figures by Lynn Kessler,Don Winar Pdf

Learn to paint contest-quality military figures with this book! Covers military figures and horses from medieval times to Desert Storm. Includes more tips for resin models and oil paints, new techniques for painting in enamels and oils, and information on camouflage and black-and-white uniforms.

Author : Paolo Rosa
Publisher : Springer
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319786407

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Neoclassical Realism and the Underdevelopment of China’s Nuclear Doctrine by Paolo Rosa Pdf

This book addresses the under-researched discourse of the evolution of Chinese nuclear posture, and in particular, explains the absence from this evolution of a coherent and well-defined operational doctrine. Using a neoclassical realist framework, the book explains why China, after having launched a crash programme in the mid-1950s to develop a nuclear deterrent, did not debate a clear operational doctrine with respect to targeting and employment until the mid-1980s.

Author : Steven E. Lobell,Norrin M. Ripsman,Jeffrey W. Taliaferro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139475746

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Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy by Steven E. Lobell,Norrin M. Ripsman,Jeffrey W. Taliaferro Pdf

Neoclassical realism is an important approach to international relations. Focusing on the interaction of the international system and the internal dynamics of states, neoclassical realism seeks to explain the grand strategies of individual states as opposed to recurrent patterns of international outcomes. This book offers the first systematic survey of the neoclassical realist approach. The editors lead a group of senior and emerging scholars in presenting a variety of neoclassical realist approaches to states' grand strategies. They examine the central role of the 'state' and seek to explain why, how, and under what conditions the internal characteristics of states intervene between their leaders' assessments of international threats and opportunities, and the actual diplomatic, military, and foreign economic policies those leaders are likely to pursue.

Author : Colin Elman,Michael Jensen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317937135

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The Realism Reader by Colin Elman,Michael Jensen Pdf

The Realism Reader provides broad coverage of a centrally important tradition in the study of foreign policy and international politics. After some years in the doldrums, political realism is again in contention as a leading tradition in the international relations sub-field. Divided into three main sections, the book covers seven different and distinctive approaches within the realist tradition: classical realism, balance of power theory, neorealism, defensive structural realism, offensive structural realism, rise and fall realism, and neoclassical realism. The middle section of the volume covers realism’s engagement with critiques levelled by liberalism, institutionalism, and constructivism and the English School. The final section of the book provides materials on realism’s engagement with some contemporary issues in international politics, with collections on United States (U.S.) hegemony, European cooperation, and whether future threats will arise from non-state actors or the rise of competing great powers. The book offers a logically coherent and manageable framework for organizing the realist canon, and provides exemplary literature in each of the traditions and dialogues which are included in the volume. Offering substantial commentary and analysis and including enhanced pedagogy to facilitate student learning, The Realism Reader will provide a 'one-stop-shop' for undergraduates and masters students taking a course in contemporary international relations theory, with a particular focus on realism.

Author : Timothy J. Welsh
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452952017

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Mixed Realism by Timothy J. Welsh Pdf

Mixed Realism is about how we interact with media. Timothy J. Welsh shows how videogames, like novels, both promise and trouble experiences of “immersion.” His innovative methodology offers a new understanding of the expanding role of virtuality in contemporary life. Today’s wired culture is a mixed reality, conducted as exchanges between virtual and material contexts. We make balance transfers at an ATM, update Facebook timelines, and squeeze in sessions of Angry Birds on the subway. However, the “virtual” is still frequently figured as imaginary, as opposed to “real.” The vision of 1990s writers of a future that would pit virtual reality against actual reality has never materialized, yet it continues to haunt cultural criticism. Our ongoing anxiety about immersive media now surrounds videogames, especially “shooter games,” and manifests as a fear that gamers might not know the difference between the virtual world and the real world. As Welsh notes, this is the paradox of real virtuality. We understand that the media-generated virtualities that fill our lives are not what they represent. But what are they if they are not real? Do they have presence, significance, or influence exceeding their material presence and the user processes that invoke them? What relationships do they establish through and beyond our interactions with them? Mixed Realism brims with fresh analyses of literary works such as Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood and Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves, along with sustained readings of controversial videogames such as Super Columbine Massacre and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Continually connecting the dots between surprising groupings of texts and thinkers, from David Foster Wallace to the cult-classic videogame Eternal Darkness and from Cormac McCarthy to Grand Theft Auto, it offers a fresh perspective on both digital games and contemporary literature.

Author : Aswini K. Ray
Publisher : Foundation Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Balance of power
ISBN : 8175962186

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Western Realism and International Relations by Aswini K. Ray Pdf

This book provides an alternative perspective of International Relations from Hiroshima to 9/11. Both its diplomacy and mainstream scholarship are linked by realpolitic, in a vicious circle of retrogressive symbiosis. It simultaneously undermined the UN system of collective security from its origin and the scientific credential of its scholarship. The Cold War that it spawned restricted economic propsperity, political stability and democratic freedom within its narrow core-area of the United States and Europe at the cost of its vast periphery in the Third World. Its unpredicted collapse extended insecurity across the entire globalised system, including its core area, as evnts since 9/11 forcefully underscores. While the new hegemonic system has become globally more insecure for all its citizens, its scholarship is still clueless about the collapse of teh bipolar system it created in the midst of the massive confidence-building exercise to stabilise it; it is even less able to creatively respond to its orderly transition.

Author : Alastair Iain Johnston
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691213149

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Cultural Realism by Alastair Iain Johnston Pdf

Cultural Realism is an in-depth study of premodern Chinese strategic thought that has important implications for contemporary international relations theory. In applying a Western theoretical debate to China, Iain Johnston advances rigorous procedures for testing for the existence and influence of "strategic culture." Johnston sets out to answer two empirical questions. Is there a substantively consistent and temporally persistent Chinese strategic culture? If so, to what extent has it influenced China's approaches to security? The focus of his study is the Ming dynasty's grand strategy against the Mongols (1368-1644). First Johnston examines ancient military texts as sources of Chinese strategic culture, using cognitive mapping, symbolic analysis and congruence tests to determine whether there is a consistent grand strategic preference ranking across texts that constitutes a single strategic culture. Then he applies similar techniques to determine the effect of the strategic culture on the strategic preferences of the Ming decision makers. Finally, he assesses the effect of these preferences on Ming policies towards the Mongol "threat." The findings of this book challenge dominant interpretations of traditional Chinese strategic thought. They suggest also that the roots of realpolitik are ideational and not predominantly structural. The results lead to the surprising conclusion that there may be, in fact, fewer cross-national differences in strategic culture than proponents of the "strategic culture" approach think.

Author : Johannes Gullestad Rø
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136202940

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Mechanistic Realism and US Foreign Policy by Johannes Gullestad Rø Pdf

This book aims to reinvigorate realist international relations theory by developing a catalogue of micro-mechanisms able to explain security policy decision-making. Typically, realism discounts the role of individuals and uses states as the unit of analysis. By examining instead the mental operations of those who act on behalf of the state, a better understanding of security policy formation is attainable. The book demonstrates how realism can be translated from a systemic "grand theory" into a catalogue of psychologically plausible mechanisms applicable to individual decision-makers. This catalogue, here called "Mechanistic Realism", may be employed to investigate the cognitive precursors to security policy. The explanatory power of Mechanistic Realism is demonstrated through a meticulous analysis of what transpired inside the George W. Bush administration, as its members forged a response to the 2001 terrorist attacks. Through the exploration of individual-level data, Mechanistic Realism provides a more comprehensive analysis of the US response. The book concludes that international relations (IR) scholars would benefit analytically by assembling the most pertinent mechanisms into an explanatory toolbox rather than developing and applying grand theories. Mechanistic Realism is a first step in this direction. This book should be of great interest to students of IR, foreign policy, American politics, and security studies in general. .

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : UIUC:30112071914557

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Quarterly Review of Military Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : T. Dyson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230283299

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Neoclassical Realism and Defence Reform in Post-Cold War Europe by T. Dyson Pdf

Dyson explains the convergence and divergence between British, French and German defence reforms in the post-Cold War era. He engages with cultural and realist theories and develops a neoclassical realist approach to change and stasis in defence policy, bringing new material to bear on the factors which have affected defence reforms.

Author : Robert Schuett
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781474423298

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Edinburgh Companion to Political Realism by Robert Schuett Pdf

Political realism is a highly diverse body of international relations theory. This substantial reference work examines political realism in terms of its history, its scientific methodology and its normative role in international affairs. Split into three sections, it covers the 2000-year canon of realism: the different schools of thought, the key thinkers and how it responds to foreign policy challenges faced by individual states and globally. It brings political realism up-to-date by showing where theory has failed to keep up with contemporary problems and suggests how it can be applied and adapted to fit our new, globalised world order.

Author : Craig Snyder,Craig A. Snyder
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0415924545

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Contemporary Security and Strategy by Craig Snyder,Craig A. Snyder Pdf

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105072023034

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Military Review by Anonim Pdf