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Winning the Next War

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Availability:In StockContributor:Stephen Peter RosenSeries:Cornell Studies in Security AffairsPublish date:1994-05-03Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cornell University PressISBN-13:9780801481963ISBN-10:801481961UPC:9780801481963Book Category:Technology & Engineering, Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Military Science, Security (National & International), MilitaryBook Topic:WeaponsSize:9.21 x 6.19 x 0.72 inchesWeight:0.9304Product ID:SC07BPKEWW

How and when do military innovations take place? Do they proceed differently during times of peace and times of war? In Winning the Next War, Stephen Peter Rosen argues that armies and navies are not forever doomed to "fight the last war." Rather, they are able to respond to shifts in the international strategic situation. He also discusses the changing relationship between the civilian innovator and the military bureaucrat.

In peacetime, Rosen finds, innovation has been the product of analysis and the politics of military promotion, in a process that has slowly but successfully built military capabilities critical to American military success. In wartime, by contrast, innovation has been constrained by the fog of war and the urgency of combat needs. Rosen draws his principal evidence from U.S. military policy between 1905 and 1960, though he also discusses the British army's experience with the battle tank during World War I.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Cornell University PressISBN-13:9780801481963ISBN-10:801481961UPC:9780801481963Book Category:Technology & Engineering, Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Military Science, Security (National & International), MilitaryBook Topic:WeaponsSize:9.21 x 6.19 x 0.72 inchesWeight:0.9304Product ID:SC07BPKEWW

Stephen Peter Rosen is Harvard College Professor and Beton Michael Kaneb Professor of National Security and Military Affairs at Harvard University. He is the author of Societies and Military Power: India and Its Armies, also from Cornell.


Publisher: Cornell University Press

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