Analogies At War
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Analogies At War
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Author : Yuen Foong Khong
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1992-05-05
Analogies At War written by Yuen Foong Khong and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-05-05 with History categories.
From World War I to Operation Desert Storm, American policymakers have repeatedly invoked the "lessons of history" as they contemplated taking their nation to war. Do these historical analogies actually shape policy, or are they primarily tools of political justification? Yuen Foong Khong argues that leaders use analogies not merely to justify policies but also to perform specific cognitive and information-processing tasks essential to political decision-making. Khong identifies what these tasks are and shows how they can be used to explain the U.S. decision to intervene in Vietnam. Relying on interviews with senior officials and on recently declassified documents, the author demonstrates with a precision not attained by previous studies that the three most important analogies of the Vietnam era--Korea, Munich, and Dien Bien Phu--can account for America's Vietnam choices. A special contribution is the author's use of cognitive social psychology to support his argument about how humans analogize and to explain why policymakers often use analogies poorly.
Analogies At War
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Author : Yuen Foong Khong
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-05-05
Analogies At War written by Yuen Foong Khong and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-05 with History categories.
From World War I to Operation Desert Storm, American policymakers have repeatedly invoked the "lessons of history" as they contemplated taking their nation to war. Do these historical analogies actually shape policy, or are they primarily tools of political justification? Yuen Foong Khong argues that leaders use analogies not merely to justify policies but also to perform specific cognitive and information-processing tasks essential to political decision-making. Khong identifies what these tasks are and shows how they can be used to explain the U.S. decision to intervene in Vietnam. Relying on interviews with senior officials and on recently declassified documents, the author demonstrates with a precision not attained by previous studies that the three most important analogies of the Vietnam era--Korea, Munich, and Dien Bien Phu--can account for America's Vietnam choices. A special contribution is the author's use of cognitive social psychology to support his argument about how humans analogize and to explain why policymakers often use analogies poorly.
Making War Thinking History
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Author : Jeffrey Record
language : en
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Release Date : 2002
Making War Thinking History written by Jeffrey Record and has been published by US Naval Institute Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"In examining the influence of historical analogies on decisions to use - or not use - force, military strategist Jeffrey Record assesses every major application of U.S. force from the Korean War to the NATO war in Serbia. Specifically, he looks at the influence of two analogies: the democracies' appeasement of Hitler at Munich and America's defeat in the Vietnam War. His book judges the utility of these two analogies on presidential decision-making and finds considerable misuse of them in situations where force was optional. He points to the Johnson Administration's application of the Munich analogy to the circumstances of Southeast Asia in 1965 as the most egregious example of their misuse, but also cites the faulty reasoning by historical analogy that prevailed among critics of Reagan's policy in Central America and the Clinton's use of force in Haiti and the former Yugoslavia."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The Power Of The Past
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Author : Hal Brands
language : en
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Release Date : 2015-11-10
The Power Of The Past written by Hal Brands and has been published by Brookings Institution Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-10 with Political Science categories.
Leading scholars and policymakers explore how history influences foreign policy and offer insights on how the study of the past can more usefully serve the present. History, with its insights, analogies, and narratives, is central to the ways that the United States interacts with the world. Historians and policymakers, however, rarely engage one another as effectively or fruitfully as they might. This book bridges that divide, bringing together leading scholars and policymakers to address the essential questions surrounding the history-policy relationship including Mark Lawrence on the numerous, and often contradictory, historical lessons that American observers have drawn from the Vietnam War; H. W. Brands on the role of analogies in U.S. policy during the Persian Gulf crisis and war of 1990–91; and Jeremi Suri on Henry Kissinger's powerful use of history.
Human Security And The Un
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Author : S. Neil MacFarlane
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2006-02-13
Human Security And The Un written by S. Neil MacFarlane and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-02-13 with Political Science categories.
How did the individual human being become the focus of the contemporary discourse on security? What was the role of the United Nations in "securing" the individual? What are the payoffs and costs of this extension of the concept? Neil MacFarlane and Yuen Foong Khong tackle these questions by analyzing historical and contemporary debates about what is to be secured. From Westphalia through the 19th century, the state's claim to be the object of security was sustainable because it offered its subjects some measure of protection. The state's ability to provide security for its citizens came under heavy strain in the 20th century as a result of technological, strategic, and ideological innovations. By the end of World War II, efforts to reclaim the security rights of individuals gathered pace, as seen in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and a host of United Nations covenants and conventions. MacFarlane and Khong highlight the UN's work in promoting human security ideas since the 1940s, giving special emphasis to its role in extending the notion of security to include development, economic, environmental, and other issues in the 1990s.
Understanding Cyber Conflict
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Author : George Perkovich
language : en
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Release Date : 2017
Understanding Cyber Conflict written by George Perkovich and has been published by Georgetown University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Computers categories.
Written by leading scholars, the fourteen case studies in this volume will help policymakers, scholars, and students make sense of contemporary cyber conflict through historical analogies to past military-technological problems.
Vietnam
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Author : John Prados
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Vietnam written by John Prados and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
The first major synthesis of the war since 2001, drawing upon a host of newly declassified documents, presidential tapes, and overlooked foreign sources to give the most comprehensive look to date of the war that still haunts America.
Shortcut
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Author : John Pollack
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2014-09-11
Shortcut written by John Pollack and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-11 with Business & Economics categories.
A presidential speechwriter for Bill Clinton explores the hidden power of analogy to fuel thought, connect ideas, spark innovation, and shape outcomes From the meatpacking plants that inspired Henry Ford’s first moving assembly line to the "domino theory" that led America into Vietnam to the "bicycle for the mind" that Steve Jobs envisioned as the Macintosh computer, analogies have played a dynamic role in shaping the world around us—and still do today. Analogies are far more complex than their SAT stereotype and lie at the very core of human cognition and creativity. Once we become aware of this, we start seeing them everywhere—in ads, apps, political debates, legal arguments, logos, and euphemisms, to name just a few. At their very best, analogies inspire new ways of thinking, enable invention, and motivate people to action. Unfortunately, not every analogy that rings true is true. That’s why, at their worst, analogies can deceive, manipulate, or mislead us into disaster. The challenge? Spotting the difference before it’s too late. Rich with engaging stories, surprising examples, and a practical method to evaluate the truth or effectiveness of any analogy, Shortcut will improve critical thinking, enhance creativity, and offer readers a fresh approach to resolving some of today’s most intractable challenges.
The Origin And Prevention Of Major Wars
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Author : Robert Gilpin
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1989-02-24
The Origin And Prevention Of Major Wars written by Robert Gilpin and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-02-24 with History categories.
This analysis of the origins of major wars, since the development of the modern state system in Europe centuries ago, also considers the problems involved in preventing a contemporary nuclear war.
Another Such Victory
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Author : Arnold A. Offner
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2002
Another Such Victory written by Arnold A. Offner and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
This book is a provocative and thoroughly documented reassessment of President Truman's profound influence on U.S. foreign policy and the Cold War. The author contends that Truman remained a parochial nationalist who lacked the vision and leadership to move the United States away from conflict and toward detente. Instead, he promoted an ideology and politics of Cold War confrontation that set the pattern for successor administrations."