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9780415079952

The Science of War

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415079952

  • ISBN10:

    0415079950

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1993-09-09
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Forty years of confrontation in Europe produced a complex set of conditioned reflexes in western military thinking. With the end of the Warsaw pact, planning and analysis specialists have been compelled to look again at basic principles. The analysis of threat and response has been transformed, and patterns of likely action such as the Gulf intervention have been accommodated. In practical terms, these developments affect what is taught to both new officers and senior officers about to assume command responsibilities. The essays inTheScience of Warwill foster a better understanding of the factors that operate at the higher levels of war. The contributors provide a penetrating study of the operational level of war from a general and speculative vantage point which integrates military theory and historical experience. As a whole, the book provides a theoretical basis for the principles of the planning and conduct of war at the operational level, withoutlinking it to a specific formation or scenario. The Staff College at Camberley has become an international focus for thinking in the development of military operations, and this book is the response of serving officers to this pattern of change. Their authoritative review of topics central to the study of war in the modern world provides an assessment of the possible shape and location of future wars.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Lessons of the 1920s and Modern Experience
The Contribution of Originality to Military Success Lieutenant Colonel J.
Economy of Effort: A Passive Pronciple Lieutenant
Liddell Hart and the Indirect Approach to Strategy
Burma, 1943-1945: What Lessons for the Future?
Increasing Tempo on teh Modern Battlefield Lieutenant
Depth Firepower: THe Violent, Enabling Element Group Captain
The Future of Surprise on the Transparent Battlefield
The Impact of the Media on the Prosecution of Contemporary Warfare
A Study of Euorpean Defence Needs in the 21st Century
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