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Improving Strategic Competence: Lessons from 13 Years of War [Pehme köide]

  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 166 pages, kõrgus x laius: 229x152 mm
  • Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jan-2015
  • Kirjastus: RAND
  • ISBN-10: 0833087754
  • ISBN-13: 9780833087751
Teised raamatud teemal:
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 166 pages, kõrgus x laius: 229x152 mm
  • Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jan-2015
  • Kirjastus: RAND
  • ISBN-10: 0833087754
  • ISBN-13: 9780833087751
Teised raamatud teemal:
This study formulates seven lessons from the past 13 years of war and identifies critical requirements for land forces, special operations forces, and partners to collaborate successfully.
Preface iii
Tables
vii
Summary ix
Acknowledgments xxi
Abbreviations xxiii
Chapter One Introduction
1(6)
Methodology
4(3)
Chapter Two The U.S. Experience in Land Warfare, 1939--2014
7(24)
The Formative Years: World War II Through Korea
8(5)
The Model Breaks Down: The Vietnam War Through the 1980s
13(5)
The 1990s and the Search for a New Paradigm
18(6)
From NCW to Counterinsurgency: Afghanistan and Iraq, 2001--2014
24(5)
Learning the Big Lessons
29(2)
Chapter Three Lessons from 13 Years of War
31(54)
Findings
32(53)
1 The Making of National Security Strategy Has Suffered from a Lack of Understanding and Application of Strategic Art
32(12)
2 An Integrated Civilian-Military Process Is a Necessary, But Not Sufficient, Condition of Effective National Security Policy and Strategy
44(8)
3 Military Campaigns Must Be Based on a Political Strategy, Because Military Operations Take Place in the Political Environment of the State in Which the Intervention Takes Place
52(7)
4 Technology Cannot Substitute for Expertise in History, Culture, and Languages Because of the Inherently Human and Uncertain Nature of War
59(4)
5 Interventions Should Not Be Conducted Without a Plan to Conduct Stability Operations, Capacity Building, Transition, and, If Necessary, Counterinsurgency
63(8)
6 Shaping, Influence, and Unconventional Operations May Be Cost-Effective Ways of Addressing Conflict That Obviate the Need for Larger, Costlier Interventions
71(6)
7 The Joint Force Requires Nonmilitary and Multinational Partners, as Well as Structures for Coordinated Implementation
77(8)
Chapter Four Future Conflict and Implications for the JIIM
85(40)
Future Conflict Trends
87(6)
The Need for a Theory of Success
93(8)
Proposals for Institutional Reform
101(3)
Enhancing Strategic Competence
104(1)
Organizational Adaptation
105(5)
SOF-Conventional Force Interdependence
110(4)
Innovative and Multifunctional Personnel
114(2)
Joint Capabilities for Irregular Warfare
116(1)
Interagency and Intergovernmental Coordination
117(2)
Improving Coalitions and Leveraging Multinational Expertise
119(4)
Conclusion
123(2)
References 125