Format:
xix, 588 pages
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illustrations, maps
ISBN:
9780141993515
,
0141993510
Series Statement:
Penguin history / politics
Content:
Military command has been reconstructed and revolutionized since the Second World War by nuclear warfare, small-scale guerrilla land operations and cyber interference. Freedman takes a global perspective, systematically investigating its practice and politics since 1945 through a wide range of conflicts from the French Colonial Wars, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bangladesh Liberation War to North Vietnam's Easter Offensive of 1972, the Falklands War, the Iraq War and Russia's wars in Chechnya and Ukraine. By highlighting the political nature of strategy, Freedman shows that military decision-making cannot be separated from civilian priorities and that commanders must now have the sensibility to navigate politics as well as warfare.
Note:
First published in Great Britain by Allen Lane 2022
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 517-574) and index
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Command as politics -- Supreme commander : Truman and MacArthur -- The fury of the legions : the French army in Indochina and Algeria -- Keeping control : the Cuban missile crisis -- The very model of insubordination : Ariel Sharon and Israel's wars -- Civil war : the surrender of East Pakistan -- Orders from on high : responses to North Vietnam's 1972 offensive -- Command in theatre : the Falklands campaign -- Dictator as supreme commander : Saddam Hussein -- Command in a fragile state : Guevara, Kabila and the Congo -- Command in a faltering state : the Russian invasion of Chechnya -- Too many cooks : Kosovo in 1999 -- From hybrid conflict to all-out war : Russia fights Ukraine -- The war on terror : the battle of Tora Bora -- A tale of two surges : Iraq 2006-7 -- War among the people : fighting the Taliban and Isis -- Past, present and future of command.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780197540671
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780197540695
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
Militär
;
Führung
;
Kommando
;
Kriegführung
;
Technische Innovation
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