Military Power:: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle - Couverture rigide

Stephen, D. Biddle

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 8170492300 ISBN 13 : 9788170492306

Editeur : Manas Publications, 2015

Synopsis

In War, do mass and material mater most? Will States with the largest, best equipped, information technology-rich militaries invariable win? The prevailing answer today among both scholars and policy makers is yes. But this is to overlook force employment, or the doctrine and tactics by which material is actually used. In a landmark reconeption of battle and war, this book provides a systematic account of how force employment interacts with material to produce real combat outcomes. Stephen Biddle argues that force employment is central to modern war, becoming increasingly important sice 1900 as the key to surviving ever more letha weaponry. Technological change produces opposite effects depending on how forces are employed; to focus only on material is thus to risk major error-with serious consequences for both policy and scholarship. About Author : Stephen Biddle is Associate Professor of National Security Studies at the U.S.Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. he has published extensively in defence policy and internatioanl relations, and he has held teaching and research positions in both academic political science and official defence policy analysis.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Dr. Stephen D. Biddle is a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. From June 2001-July of 2006, he was a Professor of National Security Studies at the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute (SSI). Before joining SSI in June 2001, he was a member of the political science faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has held research positions at the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) in Alexandria, Virginia; Harvard University s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA); and the Kennedy School of Government's Office of National Security Programs. Dr. Biddle has presented testimony before congressional committees on issues relating to Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, conventional net assessment, and European arms control; served as U.S. Representative to the NATO Defense Research Group study on Stable Defense; is a member of the Defense Department Senior Advisory Group on Homeland Defense; is co-director of the Columbia University Summer Workshop on the Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy (SWAMOS); and holds an appointment as Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. His book, Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle, was published by Princeton University Press in July 2004, and won the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Award Silver Medal for 2005. His other publications include articles in Foreign Affairs, International Security, Survival, The Journal of Politics, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Security Studies, The Journal of Strategic Studies, Contemporary Security Policy, Defense Analysis, and Military Operations Research; shorter pieces on military topics in The Wall Street Journal, Orbis, Joint Force Quarterly, and Defense News; various chapters in edited volumes; and 28 IDA, SSI, and NATO reports. His research has won Barchi, Rist, and Impact Prizes from the Military Operations Research Society, and he won the Army Superior Civilian Service Medal in 2003. Dr. Biddle holds AB (1981), MPP (1985), and Ph.D. (Public Policy, 1992) degrees, all from Harvard University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manas Publications
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 8170492300
• ISBN 13: 9788170492306
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352
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• Personne responsable: non disponible