Author: Peter Campbell
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826274269
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
After the Vietnam War, the U.S. Army considered counterinsurgency (COIN) a mistake to be avoided. Many found it surprising, then, when setbacks in recent conflicts led the same army to adopt a COIN doctrine. Scholarly debates have primarily employed existing theories of military bureaucracy or culture to explain the army’s re-embrace of COIN, but Peter Campbell advances a unique argument centering on military realism to explain the complex evolution of army doctrinal thinking from 1960 to 2008. In five case studies of U.S. Army doctrine, Campbell pits military realism against bureaucratic and cultural perspectives in three key areas—nuclear versus conventional warfare, preferences for offense versus defense, and COIN missions—and finds that the army has been more doctrinally flexible than those perspectives would predict. He demonstrates that decision makers, while vowing in the wake of Vietnam to avoid (COIN) missions, nonetheless found themselves adapting to the geopolitical realities of fighting “low intensity” conflicts. In essence, he demonstrates that pragmatism has won out over dogmatism. At a time when American policymakers remain similarly conflicted about future defense strategies, Campbell’s work will undoubtedly shape and guide the debate.
Military Realism
Author: Peter Campbell
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826274269
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
After the Vietnam War, the U.S. Army considered counterinsurgency (COIN) a mistake to be avoided. Many found it surprising, then, when setbacks in recent conflicts led the same army to adopt a COIN doctrine. Scholarly debates have primarily employed existing theories of military bureaucracy or culture to explain the army’s re-embrace of COIN, but Peter Campbell advances a unique argument centering on military realism to explain the complex evolution of army doctrinal thinking from 1960 to 2008. In five case studies of U.S. Army doctrine, Campbell pits military realism against bureaucratic and cultural perspectives in three key areas—nuclear versus conventional warfare, preferences for offense versus defense, and COIN missions—and finds that the army has been more doctrinally flexible than those perspectives would predict. He demonstrates that decision makers, while vowing in the wake of Vietnam to avoid (COIN) missions, nonetheless found themselves adapting to the geopolitical realities of fighting “low intensity” conflicts. In essence, he demonstrates that pragmatism has won out over dogmatism. At a time when American policymakers remain similarly conflicted about future defense strategies, Campbell’s work will undoubtedly shape and guide the debate.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826274269
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
After the Vietnam War, the U.S. Army considered counterinsurgency (COIN) a mistake to be avoided. Many found it surprising, then, when setbacks in recent conflicts led the same army to adopt a COIN doctrine. Scholarly debates have primarily employed existing theories of military bureaucracy or culture to explain the army’s re-embrace of COIN, but Peter Campbell advances a unique argument centering on military realism to explain the complex evolution of army doctrinal thinking from 1960 to 2008. In five case studies of U.S. Army doctrine, Campbell pits military realism against bureaucratic and cultural perspectives in three key areas—nuclear versus conventional warfare, preferences for offense versus defense, and COIN missions—and finds that the army has been more doctrinally flexible than those perspectives would predict. He demonstrates that decision makers, while vowing in the wake of Vietnam to avoid (COIN) missions, nonetheless found themselves adapting to the geopolitical realities of fighting “low intensity” conflicts. In essence, he demonstrates that pragmatism has won out over dogmatism. At a time when American policymakers remain similarly conflicted about future defense strategies, Campbell’s work will undoubtedly shape and guide the debate.
Realism
Author: Benjamin Frankel
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135068216
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Realism has been the subject of critical scrutiny for some time and this examination aims to identify and define its strengths and shortcomings, making a contribution to the study of international relations.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135068216
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Realism has been the subject of critical scrutiny for some time and this examination aims to identify and define its strengths and shortcomings, making a contribution to the study of international relations.
Neoclassical Realism and Defence Reform in Post-Cold War Europe
Author: T. Dyson
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230283292
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Dyson explains the convergence and divergence between British, French and German defence reforms in the post-Cold War era. He engages with cultural and realist theories and develops a neoclassical realist approach to change and stasis in defence policy, bringing new material to bear on the factors which have affected defence reforms.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230283292
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Dyson explains the convergence and divergence between British, French and German defence reforms in the post-Cold War era. He engages with cultural and realist theories and develops a neoclassical realist approach to change and stasis in defence policy, bringing new material to bear on the factors which have affected defence reforms.
How to Paint Realistic Military Figures
Author: Lynn Kessler
Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
ISBN: 9780890243800
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Learn to paint contest-quality military figures with this book! Covers military figures and horses from medieval times to Desert Storm. Includes more tips for resin models and oil paints, new techniques for painting in enamels and oils, and information on camouflage and black-and-white uniforms.
Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
ISBN: 9780890243800
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Learn to paint contest-quality military figures with this book! Covers military figures and horses from medieval times to Desert Storm. Includes more tips for resin models and oil paints, new techniques for painting in enamels and oils, and information on camouflage and black-and-white uniforms.
Realism and International Relations
Author: Jack Donnelly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521597524
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
1. The realist tradition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521597524
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
1. The realist tradition
Realist Ethics
Author: Valerie Morkevičius
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110841589X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Appealing to just war thinkers, international relations scholars, policymakers, and the public, this book claims that the historical Christian, Islamic, and Hindu just war traditions reflect political concerns with domestic and international order. This underlying realism serves to counterbalance the overly optimistic approach of contemporary liberal just war approaches.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110841589X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Appealing to just war thinkers, international relations scholars, policymakers, and the public, this book claims that the historical Christian, Islamic, and Hindu just war traditions reflect political concerns with domestic and international order. This underlying realism serves to counterbalance the overly optimistic approach of contemporary liberal just war approaches.
Western Realism and International Relations
Author: Aswini K. Ray
Publisher: Foundation Books
ISBN: 9788175962187
Category : Balance of power
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This book provides an alternative perspective of International Relations from Hiroshima to 9/11. Both its diplomacy and mainstream scholarship are linked by realpolitic, in a vicious circle of retrogressive symbiosis. It simultaneously undermined the UN system of collective security from its origin and the scientific credential of its scholarship. The Cold War that it spawned restricted economic propsperity, political stability and democratic freedom within its narrow core-area of the United States and Europe at the cost of its vast periphery in the Third World. Its unpredicted collapse extended insecurity across the entire globalised system, including its core area, as evnts since 9/11 forcefully underscores. While the new hegemonic system has become globally more insecure for all its citizens, its scholarship is still clueless about the collapse of teh bipolar system it created in the midst of the massive confidence-building exercise to stabilise it; it is even less able to creatively respond to its orderly transition.
Publisher: Foundation Books
ISBN: 9788175962187
Category : Balance of power
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This book provides an alternative perspective of International Relations from Hiroshima to 9/11. Both its diplomacy and mainstream scholarship are linked by realpolitic, in a vicious circle of retrogressive symbiosis. It simultaneously undermined the UN system of collective security from its origin and the scientific credential of its scholarship. The Cold War that it spawned restricted economic propsperity, political stability and democratic freedom within its narrow core-area of the United States and Europe at the cost of its vast periphery in the Third World. Its unpredicted collapse extended insecurity across the entire globalised system, including its core area, as evnts since 9/11 forcefully underscores. While the new hegemonic system has become globally more insecure for all its citizens, its scholarship is still clueless about the collapse of teh bipolar system it created in the midst of the massive confidence-building exercise to stabilise it; it is even less able to creatively respond to its orderly transition.
Ethical Realism
Author: Anatol Lieven
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307495337
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
America today faces a world more complicated than ever before, but our politicians have failed to envision a foreign policy that addresses our greatest threats. Ethical Realism shows how the United States can successfully combine genuine morality with tough and practical common sense. By outlining core principles and a set of concrete proposals for tackling the terrorist threat and contend with Iran, Russia, the Middle East, and China, Anatol Lieven and John Hulsman show us how to strengthen our security, pursue our national interests, and restore American leadership in the world.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307495337
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
America today faces a world more complicated than ever before, but our politicians have failed to envision a foreign policy that addresses our greatest threats. Ethical Realism shows how the United States can successfully combine genuine morality with tough and practical common sense. By outlining core principles and a set of concrete proposals for tackling the terrorist threat and contend with Iran, Russia, the Middle East, and China, Anatol Lieven and John Hulsman show us how to strengthen our security, pursue our national interests, and restore American leadership in the world.
Ways of War and Peace
Author: Michael W. Doyle
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393038262
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 557
Book Description
Examines political philosophies of the classic theorists as a means to understand international dilemmas in the post-Cold War world
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393038262
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 557
Book Description
Examines political philosophies of the classic theorists as a means to understand international dilemmas in the post-Cold War world
Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy
Author: Steven E. Lobell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521517052
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
This book argues that the internal dynamics of states affect their foreign policies, as well as the nature of the international system.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521517052
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
This book argues that the internal dynamics of states affect their foreign policies, as well as the nature of the international system.