Format:
1 online resource (337 pages)
ISBN:
9780804777155
Content:
On Flexibility presents a force planning concept that will enable armies to cope with the growing diversity of battlefield requirements, and especially with technological and doctrinal surprises, through applied adaptability and flexibility, minimizing the over dependence on intelligence and prediction involved in this process today.
Content:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. The Challenge of Force Planning Facing Future Surprises -- 1. Prediction and Intelligence-The Dominant Approach in Force Planning and Its Failure to Answer the Challenge of Technological and Doctrinal Surprise -- II. Flexibility-Based Recovery-A Theoretical View -- 2. Conceptual and Doctrinal Flexibility -- 3. Organizational and Technological Flexibility -- 4. Cognitive and Command and Control (C2) Flexibility -- 5. The Mechanism for Lesson Learning and Rapid Dissemination -- III. Recovery From Surprise-A Historical View -- 6. The German Recovery From the Surprise of British Chaff -- 7. The German Recovery From the Soviet T-34 Tank Surprise -- 8. The Israeli Recovery From the Egyptian Sagger Missile Surprise -- 9. The Israeli Air Force Recovery From the Arab Anti-Aircraft Missile Surprise -- 10. The Slow British Recovery From the German Armor and Anti-Tank Tactics -- 11. The Slow Soviet Recovery From the Surprise of Low-Intensity Conflict in Afghanistan -- 12. The French Failure to Recover From the Surprise of the German Blitzkrieg -- Summary and Conclusions -- Appendixes to Chapter 1 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780804774888
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780804774888
Language:
English
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