The Fog of Peace And War Planning

by Imlay; Talbot C.

• ISBN13: 9780415366960
• ISBN10: 0415366968
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-10-18
• Publisher: ROUTLEDGE

Summary

Given both the importance and the difficulties involved in military planning, existing research has tended to focus almost exclusively on immediate pre-war and wartime periods surrounding the First and Second World Wars and has neglected peacetime periods and the specific challenges that planners must face. This volume set out to examine and analyze how governments and military organizations planned for an uncertain and potentially threatening future during four different peacetime periods spanning from the beginning of the 19th century to the aftermath of the Second World War. For each period the authors have explored how the changing nature of military technology and hence of warfare affected military planning and provided a number of cases studies designed to illustrate the challenges and opportunities planners faced within their respective periods. Finally the book discusses what lessons can be drawn from past cases of military planning. This book will be of foremost interest to students inmilitary and strategic studies as well as military college staff, policymakers and think tanks personnel.

Table of Contents

Tables and Illustrations	ix
Contributors	x
Acknowledgments	xii
1 Strategic and Military Planning under the Fog of Peace	1	(10)
MONICA DUFFY TOFT AND TALBOT IMLAY
2 Strategic and Military Planning, 1815-56	11	(15)
LOUISE RICHARDSON
3 Russian War Planning, 1815-5626	26	(24)
FREDERICK W. KAGAN
4 Austria, Prussia, and the German Confederation: the defense of Central Europe, 1815-54	50	(25)
LAWRENCE SONDHAUS
5 Strategic and Military Planning, 1871-1914	75	(25)
DAVID STEVENSON
6 Command Decision Making: Imperial Germany, 1871-1914	100	(26)
HOLGER H. HERWIG
7 British Preparation for Global Naval War, 1904-14: directed revolution or critical problem solving?	126	(13)
JOHN TETSURO SUMIDA
8 Strategic and Military Planning, 1919-39	139	(20)
TALBOT IMLAY
9 Catching the Wave: the RAF pursues a RMA, 1918-39	159	(20)
JOHN FERRIS
10 Transforming to Victory: the US Navy, carrier aviation, and preparing for war in the Pacific	179	(26)
ANDREW F. KREPINEVICH, JR.
11 US Objectives and Plans for War with the Soviet Union, 1946-54	205	(19)
DAVID KAISER
12 From the Fall of France to the Force de Frappe: the remaking of French military power, 1940-62	224	(25)
CHARLES G. COGAN
13 Conclusion: seven lessons learned about the Fog of Peace	249	(12)
TALBOT IMLAY AND MONICA DUFFY TOFT
Bibliography	261	(9)
Index	270