Blinders Blunders And Wars

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Blinders Blunders And Wars

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Author : David C. Gompert
language : en
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Release Date : 2014-11-26

Blinders Blunders And Wars written by David C. Gompert and has been published by Rand Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-26 with History categories.

The history of wars caused by misjudgments, from Napoleon’s invasion of Russia to America’s invasion of Iraq, reveals that leaders relied on cognitive models that were seriously at odds with objective reality. Blinders, Blunders, and Wars analyzes eight historical examples of strategic blunders regarding war and peace and four examples of decisions that turned out well, and then applies those lessons to the current Sino-American case.

Survival June July 2023

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Author : The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-06-09

Survival June July 2023 written by The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-09 with History categories.

Survival, the IISS’s bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment. In this issue Hannah Aries, Bastian Giegerich and Tim Lawrenson assess that Europe’s defence industry will struggle to meet increased production needs In 2007, the late Ronald Steel judged that while the Iraq War had weakened the United States, it would not profoundly affect US foreign policy (from the archive) Dana H. Allin reflects on Ronald Steel’s legacy and prospects for the ‘extended American Century’ Liana Fix argues that the West should formulate security guarantees for Ukraine in parallel with its counter-offensive Daniel Sobelman assesses that the Yemen-based Houthi rebel movement is emulating Hizbullah And seven more thought-provoking pieces, as well as our regular Book Reviews and Noteworthy column. Editor: Dr Dana Allin Managing Editor: Jonathan Stevenson Associate Editor: Carolyn West Editorial Assistant: Charlie Zawadzki

Jellicoe S War

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Author : Nicholas Jellicoe
language : en
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
Release Date : 2024-12-31

Jellicoe S War written by Nicholas Jellicoe and has been published by Seaforth Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12-31 with History categories.

In February 1917, German U-boats launched a savage unrestricted campaign against both Allied and neutral shipping. At its peak in April, 860,000 tons of Allied merchant shipping was sunk. Britain’s supremacy at sea was being severely challenged and with it the chances of victory in the wider war. Taking up the challenge was Britain’s new First Sea Lord, Sir John Jellicoe, until the previous December C-in-C of the Grand Fleet – famously described by Churchill as the only man who could have lost the war in an afternoon. The battle he now faced was equally critical, although the timeline of defeat was a matter of days rather than hours – Britain’s food stocks were dangerously low with wheat reserves down to six weeks and sugar to only two, while wide-scale shortages were crippling the industrial economy. Jellicoe outlined the gravity of the situation with total candor to Rear Admiral William Sims, USN, sent over before America officially declared war by Franklin Roosevelt, the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. The two men already knew each other from service together in China during the Boxer Rebellion, so Jellicoe’s plea for urgent American assistance was taken seriously by Sims. After the USA joined the war in April 1917, together they lobbied Washington for aid, addressing their needs directly to two reluctant Anglophobes at the head of the USN, Secretary of the Navy, Josephus Daniels and Chief of Naval Operations, William Benson. Clearly, a radical new approach to anti-submarine warfare was called for, and Convoy was the leading contender. There were many objections to protecting shipping in this way, some ideological but most practical – a workable system, for example, effectively required state control of both shipping and distribution networks, something inconceivable in normal circumstances. However, Convoy had powerful advocates, including the Prime Minister, Lloyd George, who later claimed he had personally forced its adoption on a reluctant Admiralty. This self-serving political myth cast Jellicoe as an opponent of Convoy: nothing could be further from the truth. As both Jellicoe and Sims understood, the key requirement was a rapid increase in the number of destroyers for escort duties. America provided them, the first arriving in Queenstown, Ireland on 4 May and by June 46 were operating in European waters. This was the first step in an Anglo-American campaign that gradually brought the U-boat threat under control and led to its ultimate defeat. This book takes a fresh look at the undersea war as a whole and all the complex factors bearing on the campaign, only one of which was convoy. Its analysis is original, and its conclusions thought-provoking – an important contribution to the naval history of the Great War.

Domestic Causes Of American Wars

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Author : Ivan Eland
language : en
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Release Date : 2025-08-01

Domestic Causes Of American Wars written by Ivan Eland and has been published by SCB Distributors this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-08-01 with History categories.

Domestic Causes of American Wars offers a unique and critical take on the causes of major American wars throughout its history. Unlike most histories that designate foreign threats as casus belli, this work examines their important underlying economic triggers, reaching the striking conclusion that many were unnecessary for national security nor were they as heroic in upholding American values as commonly concluded. Further, conventional histories often dwell on the positive outcomes of those wars rather than on their much more important domestic ill effects—the erosion of the American founders' constitution and of the civil liberties and constitutional checks and balances therein, while enabling the rise of an imperial presidency. This historical volume addresses those often-buried domestic causes and effects, in particular how the American elections cycle often affects U.S. entry into wars and how economic motives incentivize war. America’s early wars – the 1812 war against Canada, the Mexican war, the wars against Native Americans – all concerned territorial aggrandizement and acquisition of the rich resources therein. The industrial north fought the Civil War to prevent the expansion of the South’s cheaper mode of production based on slavery into the expansive territories acquired during the Mexican War. The Spanish American war marked the U.S. lift off beyond its new domestic borders, in pursuit of domination and exploitation in Latin America and the acquisition of new territories overseas. The United States entered World War I to save its trade and loans with Britain and France. During World War II, a unique permanent U.S. military-industrial complex arose that lobbied for continued weapons production during peacetime to sustain its fragile local economies. Thus, by exaggerating the Soviet threat, pressures arose for military interventions in Korea and then Vietnam during the Cold War. The threat of terrorism similarly served to keep the war economy afloat during the post-Cold War era by an overly expansive war on terrorism. The prospect of accessing Iraq’s oil incentivized the war in that country. The need for ongoing wars to feed the voracious appetite of the military industrial complex through billions of dollars of arms sales has been an ever-present factor in the wars in Afghanistan and Ukraine

Creating Japan S Ground Self Defense Force 1945 2015

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Author : David Hunter-Chester
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2016-11-30

Creating Japan S Ground Self Defense Force 1945 2015 written by David Hunter-Chester and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-30 with History categories.

Creating Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force, 1945–2015 is a timely contribution to postwar Japan security studies. It is the first comprehensive account of Japan’s post-1945 army, including a comprehensive institutional history, together with the evolution of roles and missions and the adoption of successive professional identities. The organizational history is embedded within a thorough examination of Japan’s own defense policy, as well as of America’s policy of alliance with Japan. The book examines and challenges assumptions about the drafting and adoption of the War Renunciation clause of Japan’s postwar Peace Constitution, Article 9, which uniquely not only renounces war, but the arms to wage war. Thus Japan’s army is not called an army, but the Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF). The work also examines the place of an army and soldiers in the formation of Japan’s national identity after its last devastating war, and explores the impact of constitutional, legal and policy restrictions, as well as the power of the legacy of the still-largely vilified Imperial Japanese Army on GSDF members who seek to serve because “there are people we want to protect.” The study is rounded by an examination of the place of soldiers in Japan’s popular culture, focused on movies, manga and anime, assessing the impact on the GSDF of a public imagination that most often ignores or villainizes soldiers, though ending with a note that some positive images of soldiers and of the GSDF members themselves have started to appear in the last few years. The book’s author, a retired U.S. Army soldier who spent more than twenty years working, studying and training with the GSDF, offers a broad-ranging exploration of a unique organization. This work is extensively researched, using English and Japanese sources, and will appeal to anyone interested in Japanese security studies, alliance studies, and military imagery in Japanese pop culture, as well as to students of military history, international security, international relations, and cultural identity.

The Future Of War

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Author : Lawrence Freedman
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2017-10-05

The Future Of War written by Lawrence Freedman and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-05 with History categories.

A new approach to ideas about war, from one of the UK's leading strategic thinkers In 1912 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a short story about a war fought from underwater submersibles that included the sinking of passenger ships. It was dismissed by the British admirals of the day, not on the basis of technical feasibility, but because sinking civilian ships was not something that any civilised nation would do. The reality of war often contradicts expectations, less because of some fantastic technical or engineering dimension, but more because of some human, political, or moral threshold that we had never imagined would be crossed. As Lawrence Freedman shows, ideas about the causes of war and strategies for its conduct have rich and varied histories which shape predictions about the future. Freedman shows how looking at how the future of war was conceived about in the past (and why this was more often than not wrong) can put into perspective current thinking about future conflicts. The Future of War - which takes us from preparations for the world wars, through the nuclear age and the civil wars which became the focus for debate after the end of the Cold War, to present preoccupations with hybrid and cyber warfare - is filled with fascinating insights from one of the most brilliant military and strategic historians of his generation.

Future War And The Defence Of Europe

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Author : John R. Allen
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-03-25

Future War And The Defence Of Europe written by John R. Allen and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-25 with Political Science categories.

Future War and the Defence of Europe offers a major new analysis of how peace and security can be maintained in Europe: a continent that has suffered two cataclysmic conflicts since 1914. Taking as its starting point the COVID-19 pandemic and way it will inevitably accelerate some key global dynamics already in play, the book goes on to weave history, strategy, policy, and technology into a compelling analytical narrative. It lays out in forensic detail the scale of the challenge Europeans and their allies face if Europe's peace is to be upheld in a transformative century. The book upends foundational assumptions about how Europe's defence is organised, the role of a fast-changing transatlantic relationship, NATO, the EU, and their constituent nation-states. At the heart of the book is a radical vision of a technology-enabling future European defence, built around a new kind of Atlantic Alliance, an innovative strategic public-private partnership, and the future hyper-electronic European force, E-Force, it must spawn. Europeans should be under no illusion: unless they do far more for their own defence, and very differently, all that they now take for granted could be lost in the maze of hybrid war, cyber war, and hyper war they must face.

War With China

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Author : David C. Gompert
language : en
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Release Date : 2016-07-05

War With China written by David C. Gompert and has been published by Rand Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-05 with History categories.

A Sino-U.S. war could take various, and unintended, paths. Because intense, reciprocal conventional counterforce attacks could inflict heavy losses and costs on both sides, leaders need options and channels to contain and terminate fighting.

Proxy War Ethics The Norms Of Partnering In Great Power Competition

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Author : C. Anthony Pfaff
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2024-01-15

Proxy War Ethics The Norms Of Partnering In Great Power Competition written by C. Anthony Pfaff and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-15 with Political Science categories.

While proxy relationships can be an effective means international actors use to transfer risk and lower their costs to compete, they also enable actors to circumvent international norms as well as create moral hazards that can make the practice self-defeating if not simply unethical. Applying the framework of the Just War Tradition, this book highlights some of these ethical gaps and addresses how proxy relationships introduce additional obligations for both sponsor and proxy. The author examines specific examples of how current precedents set a very high bar for accountability, and perversely incentivizes sponsors to employ proxies while discouraging any effort to moderate proxy behavior since that could imply effective control. In light of this, the book offers policy recommendations on how to best manage these relationships while maintaining certain moral commitments.

Defence Diplomacy In The Long War

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Author : Patrick Blannin
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2017-08-28

Defence Diplomacy In The Long War written by Patrick Blannin and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-28 with Law categories.

One of the most dominant security issues of the twenty-first century has been the US led battle against transnational terrorism – the aptly named Long War. Over the past fifteen years the Long War has been examined using multiple perspectives. However, one central mechanism is missing in current Long War analyses: defence diplomacy. Defence diplomacy enhances the diplomatic and security capacity of a state, providing the only link between executive office and the ministries of foreign affairs and defence, two vital institutions in the Long War. Using a case study of US defence diplomacy in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014, the paper argues simply that the practice of defence diplomacy far outweighs current theories on what it is, how it works and why it matters. The paper aims to generate a more nuanced understanding of defence diplomacy, as well as identify it as a key component of the US CT/COIN strategy to achieve their Long War policy objectives.