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Format: XVIII, 189 S , Reg., Lit. Hinw.

ISBN: 9781595588746

Content: "Colonel Gian Gentile's 2008 article "Misreading the Surge" in World Politics Review first exposed a growing rift among military intellectuals that has since been playing out in strategy sessions at the Pentagon, in classrooms at military academies, and on the pages of the New York Times. While the past years of U.S. strategy in Afghanistan have been dominated by the doctrine of counterinsurgency (COIN), Gentile and a small group of dissident officers and defense analysts have questioned the necessity and efficacy of COIN--essentially armed nation-building--in achieving the United States' limited core policy objective in Afghanistan: the destruction of Al Qaeda. Drawing both on the author's experiences as a combat battalion commander in the Iraq War and his research into the application of counterinsurgency in a variety of historical contexts, Wrong Turn is a brilliant summation of Gentile's views of the failures of COIN, as well as a searing reevaluation of the current state of affairs in Afghanistan. As the issue of America's withdrawal from Afghanistan inevitably rises to the top of the national agenda, Wrong Turn will be a major new touchstone for what went wrong and a vital new guide to the way forward. Note: the ideas in this book are the author's alone, not the Department of Defense's."--

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Introduction : the conceit of American counterinsurgency -- The construction of the counterinsurgency narrative -- Malaya : the foundation of the counterinsurgency narrative -- Vietnam : the first better war that wasn't -- Iraq : a better war, version 2 -- Afghanistan : another better war that wasn't -- Afterword.

Additional Edition: ISBN 9781595588968

Language: English

Subjects: Political Science

Keywords: USA ; Aufstand ; Bekämpfung ; Fallstudiensammlung

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Format: 1 online resource (286 pages)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9780814733318

Series Statement: The world of war

Content: In the wake of World War II, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and President Harry S. Truman established the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, to determine exactly how effectively strategic air power had been applied in the European theater and in the Pacific. The final study, consisting of over 330 separate reports and annexes, was staggering in its size and emphatic in its conclusions. As such it has for decades been used as an objective primary source and a guiding text, a veritable Bible for historians of air power. In this aggressively revisionist volume, Gian Gentile examines afresh this influential document to reveal how it reflected to its very foundation the American conceptual approach to strategic bombing. In the process, he exposes the survey as largely tautological and thereby throwing into question many of the central tenets of American air power philosophy and strategy. With a detailed chapter on the Gulf War and the resulting Gulf War Air Power Survey, and a concluding chapter on the lessons of the Kosovo air war, How Effective is Strategic Bombing? is the most comprehensive and important book on air power strategy in decades.

Content: Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1 The Origins of the American Conceptual Approach to Strategic Bombing and the United StatesStrategic Bombing Survey -- Chapter 2 The United States Strategic Bombing Survey and the Future of the Air Force -- Chapter 3 The Evaluation of Strategic Bombing against Germany -- Chapter 4 The Survey Presents Its Findings from Europe and Develops an Alternate Strategic Bombing Plan for Japan -- Chapter 5 The Evaluation of Strategic Bombing against Japan -- Chapter 6 A-Bombs, Budgets, and the Dilemma of Defense -- Chapter 7 A Comparison of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey with theGulf War Air Power Survey -- AFTERWORD -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR.

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Additional Edition: ISBN 9780814731352

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780814731352

Language: English

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ISSN: 0030-4387

In: Orbis, New York, NY : Elsevier, 1957, 53(2009), 3, Seite 457-470, 0030-4387

Language: English

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Format: 189 Seiten

ISBN: 9781595588746

Language: English

Keywords: Guerilla ; Bekämpfung ; Fallstudie ; Malaya / Aufstand 〈1948-1960〉 ; Vietnamkrieg ; Afghanistankrieg 〈2001-2021〉 ; Golfkrieg 〈2003〉 ; USA ; Aufstand ; Bekämpfung ; Praxis ; Theorie ; Geschichte 1948-2013

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ISSN: 0030-4387

In: Orbis, New York, NY : Elsevier, 1957, 53(2009), 3, Seite 457-470, 0030-4387

In: volume:53

In: year:2009

In: number:3

In: pages:457-470

Language: English

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Format: xix, 103 Seiten , 23 cm

Edition: Also available on the internet via WWW in PDF format

ISBN: 1977405533 , 9781977405531

Series Statement: [Research report] RR-A165-1

Content: Introduction -- Prospects That North Korea Will Engage in Market Reform -- Conventional Deterrence on the Korean Peninsula: Two Scenarios for Analysis -- North Korea Nuclear Doctrine -- Conclusions.

Content: This report is a compilation of three papers designed to stimulate discussion among those who are focused on North Korean decisionmaking. The first paper describes the experiences of North Korea and three similar authoritarian regimes-China, Vietnam, and Cuba-and provides a forecast of why and how North Korea might adopt a new economic model. The second paper describes decisions that the North Korean leadership might face in two scenarios in which conventional deterrence on the Korean Peninsula breaks down. The final paper provides an assessment of North Korean leadership decisionmaking about nuclear weapons doctrine. Despite the many unknowns surrounding the North Korean leadership decisionmaking process, these papers constructively outline the parameters of the North Korean decisionmaking "trade space" and the historical examples from which North Korean leaders might draw

Note: "RAND National Defense Research Institute." , "Prepared for the National Intelligence Council." , Tabellen , Literaturangaben , Literaturhinweise Seite 93-103 , Also available on the internet via WWW in PDF format.

Language: English

Keywords: Nordkorea ; Sicherheitspolitik ; Atomare Rüstung ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung

URL: https://doi.org/10.7249/RRA165-1

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Format: ix, 275 p.

Edition: Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Series Statement: World of war

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books.

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Format: 1 online resource (117 pages) : , illustrations

ISBN: 0-8330-9825-X

Content: Tracing the evolution of the U.S. Army throughout American history, the authors of this four-volume series show that there is no such thing as a "traditional" U.S. military policy. Rather, the laws that authorize, empower, and govern the U.S. armed forces emerged from long-standing debates and a series of legislative compromises between 1903 and 1940. Volume I traces the history of U.S. military policy from the colonial era through the Spanish-American War. This period is critical for understanding the genesis of the basic structure of today's Army and the various factors that informed that structure. For a combination of strategic, cultural, economic, ideological, and political reasons, in the 18th and 19th centuries the United States did not establish a standing army large enough to handle a major conflict and instead relied on a variety of mechanisms for raising volunteer units and marshaling state militias to expand or augment the Army. The Spanish-American War (1898) was a major turning point: The difficulties the United States faced in raising and equipping a large-enough Army for the conflict prompted led to major reforms in the early 20th century.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8330-9822-5

Language: English

DOI: 10.7249/RR1995.1

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Format: 1 online resource (117 pages) : , illustrations

ISBN: 0-8330-9825-X

Content: Tracing the evolution of the U.S. Army throughout American history, the authors of this four-volume series show that there is no such thing as a "traditional" U.S. military policy. Rather, the laws that authorize, empower, and govern the U.S. armed forces emerged from long-standing debates and a series of legislative compromises between 1903 and 1940. Volume I traces the history of U.S. military policy from the colonial era through the Spanish-American War. This period is critical for understanding the genesis of the basic structure of today's Army and the various factors that informed that structure. For a combination of strategic, cultural, economic, ideological, and political reasons, in the 18th and 19th centuries the United States did not establish a standing army large enough to handle a major conflict and instead relied on a variety of mechanisms for raising volunteer units and marshaling state militias to expand or augment the Army. The Spanish-American War (1898) was a major turning point: The difficulties the United States faced in raising and equipping a large-enough Army for the conflict prompted led to major reforms in the early 20th century.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8330-9822-5

Language: English

DOI: 10.7249/RR1995.1

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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9780814733318

Content: In the wake of World War II, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and President Harry S. Truman established the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, to determine exactly how effectively strategic air power had been applied in the European theater and in the Pacific. The final study, consisting of over 330 separate reports and annexes, was staggering in its size and emphatic in its conclusions. As such it has for decades been used as an objective primary source and a guiding text, a veritable Bible for historians of air power. In this aggressively revisionist volume, Gian Gentile examines afresh this influential document to reveal how it reflected to its very foundation the American conceptual approach to strategic bombing. In the process, he exposes the survey as largely tautological and thereby throwing into question many of the central tenets of American air power philosophy and strategy. With a detailed chapter on the Gulf War and the resulting Gulf War Air Power Survey, and a concluding chapter on the lessons of the Kosovo air war, How Effective is Strategic Bombing? is the most comprehensive and important book on air power strategy in decades.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , 1. The Origins of the American Conceptual Approach to Strategic Bombing and the United States Strategic Bombing Survey -- , 2. The United States Strategic Bombing Survey and the Future of the Air Force -- , 3. The Evaluation of Strategic Bombing against Germany -- , 4. The Survey Presents Its Findings from Europe and Develops an Alternate Strategic Bombing Plan for Japan -- , 5. The Evaluation of Strategic Bombing against Japan -- , 6. A-Bombs, Budgets, and the Dilemma of Defense -- , 7. A Comparison of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey with the Gulf War Air Power Survey -- , Afterword -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index -- , About the Author , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780814731352

Language: English

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814733318