Strategy Doctrine And The Politics Of Alliance

Author : Paul Buteux
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000313314

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Strategy, Doctrine, And The Politics Of Alliance by Paul Buteux Pdf

This book examines the processes of nuclear policymaking in NATO and the interaction of alliance strategy with the docrines underlying it. Dr. Buteux focuses on the issue of theatre nuclear force modernisation to illustrate his thesis that NATO's strategic posture results from a political process in which other than purely strategic objectives are sought; agreements on alliance strategy may in fact be related only indirectly to the actual military posture of the alliance and the means available to support it. The book highlights the cumulative effect of strategic and technological change on the strategy and nuclear politics of NATO. Emphasizing that the present strategic environment has called into question many of the strategic and political premises on which NATO's nuclear posture has been based, Dr. Buteux gives special attention to recent proposals to deploy enhanced-radiation weapons (the "neutron bomb") and new intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe. He considers the impact of these proposals on NATO's nuclear policymaking process and on the ability of the alliance to continue to base its deterrent posture on the concept of flexible response

Author : Hedley Bull
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Europe
ISBN : UVA:X000499854

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Strategy and the Atlantic Alliance by Hedley Bull Pdf

Author : Gerald Garvey
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015005512671

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Strategy and the Defense Dilemma by Gerald Garvey Pdf

Author : James L. Richardson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B4977201

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Germany and the Atlantic Alliance by James L. Richardson Pdf

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Author : Fotini Christia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139851756

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Alliance Formation in Civil Wars by Fotini Christia Pdf

Some of the most brutal and long-lasting civil wars of our time involve the rapid formation and disintegration of alliances among warring groups, as well as fractionalization within them. It would be natural to suppose that warring groups form alliances based on shared identity considerations - such as Christian groups allying with Christian groups - but this is not what we see. Two groups that identify themselves as bitter foes one day, on the basis of some identity narrative, might be allies the next day and vice versa. Nor is any group, however homogeneous, safe from internal fractionalization. Rather, looking closely at the civil wars in Afghanistan and Bosnia and testing against the broader universe of fifty-three cases of multiparty civil wars, Fotini Christia finds that the relative power distribution between and within various warring groups is the primary driving force behind alliance formation, alliance changes, group splits and internal group takeovers.

Author : Steven Canby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Europe
ISBN : LCCN:74180564

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The Alliance and Europe by Steven Canby Pdf

Author : Gale A. Mattox,Stephen M. Grenier
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804796293

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Coalition Challenges in Afghanistan by Gale A. Mattox,Stephen M. Grenier Pdf

This book examines the experiences of a range of countries in the conflict in Afghanistan, with particular focus on the demands of operating within a diverse coalition of states. After laying out the challenges of the Afghan conflict in terms of objectives, strategy, and mission, case studies of 15 coalition members—each written by a country expert—discuss each country's motivation for joining the coalition and explore the impact of more than 10 years of combat on each country's military, domestic government, and populace. The book dissects the changes in the coalition over the decade, driven by both external factors—such as the Bonn Conferences of 2001 and 2011, the contiguous Iraq War, and politics and economics at home—and internal factors such as command structures, interoperability, emerging technologies, the surge, the introduction of counterinsurgency doctrine, Green on Blue attacks, escalating civilian casualties, and the impact of the Provincial Reconstruction Teams and NGOs. In their conclusion, the editors review the commonality and uniqueness evident in the country cases, lay out the lessons learned by NATO, and assess the potential for their application in future alliance warfare in the new global order.

Author : Harry R. Yarger
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Military doctrine
ISBN : 9781428916227

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Strategic Theory for the 21st Century: The Little Book on Big Strategy by Harry R. Yarger Pdf

Author : Kerry K. Gershaneck,Marine Corps University (U.S.). Press
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : China
ISBN : 9798569771318

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Political Warfare by Kerry K. Gershaneck,Marine Corps University (U.S.). Press Pdf

"Political Warfare provides a well-researched and wide-ranging overview of the nature of the People's Republic of China (PRC) threat and the political warfare strategies, doctrines, and operational practices used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The author offers detailed and illuminating case studies of PRC political warfare operations designed to undermine Thailand, a U.S. treaty ally, and Taiwan, a close friend"--

Author : Ashley J. Tellis,Michael Wills
Publisher : NBR
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Asia
ISBN : 9780971393882

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Domestic Political Change and Grand Strategy by Ashley J. Tellis,Michael Wills Pdf

Based upon work supported by the Department of Energy (National Nuclear Security Administration) under Award Number DE-FG52-03SF22724.

Author : Abiodun Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429719288

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Many Voices by Abiodun Williams Pdf

International negotiations increasingly involve a myriad of state and nonstate actors who approach major issues from a variety of standpoints and work to determine outcomes acceptable to all. Great powers, military allies, business and industry, LDCs, international organizations, and even domestic politics enter into negotiations on complex issues-ranging from defense and national security to environmental protection and Third World development-that now dominate the global agenda. Abiodun Williams has assembled a collection of case studies that illustrate the variety and dynamism of this complex decisionmaking process. Cases including conflict resolution in Indochina and mining in Antarctica show students the role of contending national objectives, necessary trade-offs, and efforts at coalition building, as well as the influence of personality and persuasion on the outcomes of major negotiations. A case exploring the investment activities of transnational corporations and their impact on developing countries is organized as a simulation exercise that offers students rare insight into negotiations under UN auspices and the impact of regional bloc politics on multilateral diplomacy.

Author : Charles W. Harper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Operational readiness (Military science)
ISBN : IND:30000090316971

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NATO Doctrine, Strategy, and Readiness by Charles W. Harper Pdf

Author : Barry Posen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 0801494273

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The Sources of Military Doctrine by Barry Posen Pdf

Barry R. Posen explores how military doctrine takes shape and the role it plays in grand strategy-that collection of military, economic, and political means and ends with which a state attempts to achieve security. Posen isolates three crucial elements of a given strategic doctrine: its offensive, defensive, or deterrent characteristics, its integration of military resources with political aims, and the degree of military or operational innovation it contains. He then examines these components of doctrine from the perspectives of organization theory and balance of power theory, taking into account the influence of technology and geography. Looking at interwar France, Britain, and Germany, Posen challenges each theory to explain the German Blitzkrieg, the British air defense system, and the French Army's defensive doctrine often associated with the Maginot Line. This rigorous comparative study, in which the balance of power theory emerges as the more useful, not only allows us to discover important implications for the study of national strategy today, but also serves to sharpen our understanding of the origins of World War II.

Author : Maurice Matloff,Edwin Marion Snell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Strategy
ISBN : WISC:89003638707

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Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare: 1943-1944 by Maurice Matloff,Edwin Marion Snell Pdf

Author : Frans Osinga,Tim Sweijs
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789462654198

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NL ARMS Netherlands Annual Review of Military Studies 2020 by Frans Osinga,Tim Sweijs Pdf

This open access volume surveys the state of the field to examine whether a fifth wave of deterrence theory is emerging. Bringing together insights from world-leading experts from three continents, the volume identifies the most pressing strategic challenges, frames theoretical concepts, and describes new strategies. The use and utility of deterrence in today’s strategic environment is a topic of paramount concern to scholars, strategists and policymakers. Ours is a period of considerable strategic turbulence, which in recent years has featured a renewed emphasis on nuclear weapons used in defence postures across different theatres; a dramatic growth in the scale of military cyber capabilities and the frequency with which these are used; and rapid technological progress including the proliferation of long-range strike and unmanned systems. These military-strategic developments occur in a polarized international system, where cooperation between leading powers on arms control regimes is breaking down, states widely make use of hybrid conflict strategies, and the number of internationalized intrastate proxy conflicts has quintupled over the past two decades. Contemporary conflict actors exploit a wider gamut of coercive instruments, which they apply across a wider range of domains. The prevalence of multi-domain coercion across but also beyond traditional dimensions of armed conflict raises an important question: what does effective deterrence look like in the 21st century? Answering that question requires a re-appraisal of key theoretical concepts and dominant strategies of Western and non-Western actors in order to assess how they hold up in today’s world. Air Commodore Professor Dr. Frans Osinga is the Chair of the War Studies Department of the Netherlands Defence Academy and the Special Chair in War Studies at the University Leiden. Dr. Tim Sweijs is the Director of Research at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies and a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Military Sciences of the Netherlands Defence Academy in Breda.