Strategic Culture And Ways Of War

Author : Lawrence Sondhaus
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135989753
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strategic Culture and Ways of War written by Lawrence Sondhaus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-08-21 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study will provide a badly-needed survey and synopsis of the scholarly literature on strategic culture and ways of war.

Author : Lawrence Sondhaus
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135989745
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strategic Culture and Ways of War written by Lawrence Sondhaus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-08-21 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A much-needed survey and synopsis of literature on strategic culture and ways of war. It clearly shows how national strategies and approaches to warfare are, to a significant extent, culturally determined. The concept of national ‘ways of war’ dates from the 1930s, when Basil H. Liddell Hart theorized that there was a ‘British Way in Warfare’. The concept of "strategic culture" dates from the 1970s, when Jack Snyder introduced it to explain why leaders of the Soviet Union did not behave according to rational choice theory. These ideas have gained wide acceptance among historians of international politics and warfare, and remain controversial for political scientists seeking general or universal theoretical understanding of such subjects. Because political scientists have focused on strategic culture and historians on ways of war, this work will greatly benefit both audiences and provide each with valuable exposure to the ideas of the other.

Author : Hew Strachan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107047854
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Direction of War written by Hew Strachan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major contribution to our understanding of contemporary warfare and strategy by one of the world's leading military historians.

Author : Antulio J. EchevarriaII
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1626160686
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconsidering the American Way of War written by Antulio J. EchevarriaII and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging several longstanding notions about the American way of war, this book examines US strategic and operational practice from 1775 to 2014. It surveys all major US wars from the War of Independence to the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as most smaller US conflicts to determine what patterns, if any, existed in American uses of force. Contrary to many popular sentiments, Echevarria finds that the American way of war is not astrategic, apolitical, or defined by the use of overwhelming force. Instead, the American way of war was driven more by political considerations than military ones, and the amount of force employed was rarely overwhelming or decisive. As a scholar of Clausewitz, Echevarria borrows explicitly from the Prussian to describe the American way of war not only as an extension of US policy by other means, but also the continuation of US politics by those means. The book’s focus on strategic and operational practice closes the gap between critiques of American strategic thinking and analyses of US campaigns. Echevarria discovers that most conceptions of American strategic culture fail to hold up to scrutiny, and that US operational practice has been closer to military science than to military art. Providing a fresh look at how America’s leaders have used military force historically and what that may mean for the future, this book should be of interest to military practitioners and policymakers, students and scholars of military history and security studies, and general readers interested in military history and the future of military power.

Author : Peter R. Mansoor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108485731
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Culture of Military Organizations written by Peter R. Mansoor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how military culture forms and changes, as well as its impact on the effectiveness of military organizations.

Author : Ben Buley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134086423
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New American Way of War written by Ben Buley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-10-22 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By tracing the origins and evolution of the competing views on the political utility of force, this book sets the currently popular image of a new American way of war in its broader historical, cultural and political context, and provides an assessment of its future prospects.

Author : Harry R. Yarger
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428916229
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strategic Theory for the 21st Century: The Little Book on Big Strategy written by Harry R. Yarger and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Martin Van Creveld
Publisher : History Press Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780752452722
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Culture of War written by Martin Van Creveld and published by History Press Limited. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A respected scholar of military history and an expert on strategy, Martin van Creveld argues in "The Culture of War" that there is much more to war than just soldiers killing one another. War has always been a deeply fascinating subject. Fighting itself can be a source of great, perhaps even the greatest, joy - and out of this joy and fascination an entire culture has grown - from the war paint of tribal warriors to today's 'tiger suits', from Julius Caesar's red cloak to Douglas McArthur's pipe, from the decorative shields of ancient Greece to aircraft nose art, and from the invention of chess around AD 600 to cyber era combat simulators. The culture of war has had its own traditions, laws, rituals, music, art, literature, and monuments since the beginning of civilisation. Through the ages, the culture of war has usually been highly esteemed. Not so in many countries today, which tend either to mock it ('military intelligence is to intelligence what military music is to music') or to denounce it as 'militaristic'. This provocative book sets out to show how wrongheaded, and even dangerous, such attitudes are. "The Culture of War" argues that men and women today, contrary to the hopes of some, are just as fascinated by war as they have been in the past. A military that has lost touch with the culture of war is doomed not merely to defeat but to disintegration. Innovative, authoritative, and riveting, "The Culture of War" is a major work done by one of the world's greatest and most insightful military historians.

Author : C. Christine Fair
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199892709
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fighting to the End written by C. Christine Fair and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pakistan Army is poised for perpetual conflict with India which it cannot win militarily or politically. What explains Pakistan's persistent revisionism despite increasing costs and decreasing likelihood of success? This book argues that an understanding of the army's strategic culture explains its willingness to fight to the end

Author : Nicolò Fasola
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781032648477
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reinterpreting Russia's Strategic Culture written by Nicolò Fasola and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book analyses the categories of thought underpinning Russia's strategic decision-making and military operations, unpacking their nature, development, and interaction. The work argues that mainstream Western analysis of Russian military and strategic behaviour is affected by two limitations: first, by forcing Russian choices into pre-packaged logics of action, it fails to grasp the peculiar assumptions and intellectual nuances underpinning Moscow's strategies; second, an overreliance on buzzwords such as 'hybridity' has mystified understanding of the Russian military modus operandi, its true character and strong consistencies. The book addresses such limitations by stressing the influence of strategic culture on Russia's approach to strategy and war-fighting. After proposing an original model of strategic culture, it employs this conceptual framework to interrogate Russian primary sources and military practices between 2008 and 2018. This allows general hypotheses to be formulated about the ultimate principles underpinning the Russian way of war, which are then tested against three case studies: Russia's interventions in Georgia (2008), Ukraine (2014-15), and Syria (2015-18), respectively. While steering clear of making forecasts, this book provides a solid basis on which to build expectations about and to chart strategies for counter-acting Moscow's actions - including in the context of the current war in Ukraine. This book will be of much interest to students of Russian security, military and strategic studies, foreign policy and International Relations in general"--