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9780415366977

The fog of Peace and War Planning: Military and Strategic Planning Under Uncertainty

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415366977

  • ISBN10:

    0415366976

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2006-10-24
  • Publisher: Routledge

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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 Illustrationsp. ix
Contributorsp. x
Acknowledgmentsp. xii
Strategic and Military Planning under the Fog of Peacep. 1
Strategic and Military Planning, 1815-56p. 11
Russian War Planning, 1815-5626p. 26
Austria, Prussia, and the German Confederation: the defense of Central Europe, 1815-54p. 50
Strategic and Military Planning, 1871-1914p. 75
Command Decision Making: Imperial Germany, 1871-1914p. 100
British Preparation for Global Naval War, 1904-14: directed revolution or critical problem solving?p. 126
Strategic and Military Planning, 1919-39p. 139
Catching the Wave: the RAF pursues a RMA, 1918-39p. 159
Transforming to Victory: the US Navy, carrier aviation, and preparing for war in the Pacificp. 179
US Objectives and Plans for War with the Soviet Union, 1946-54p. 205
From the Fall of France to the Force de Frappe: the remaking of French military power, 1940-62p. 224
Conclusion: seven lessons learned about the Fog of Peacep. 249
Bibliographyp. 261
Indexp. 270
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