Defense planning for national security : navigation aids for the mystery tour / Colin S. Gray.
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Evergreen Indiana.
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Series Information
Advancing strategic thought series.| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana State Library - Indianapolis | ISLM D 101.146/14:D 36 (Text) | 2017-7020 | Online document | Available | - |
Record details
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 59 pages).
- Publisher: Carlisle Barracks, PA : Strategic Studies Institute and U.S. Army War College Press, 2014.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Title from PDF title page (SSI, viewed March 26, 2014). "March 2014." |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 51-59). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Purpose and problems -- Approaches -- What can we learn from strategic history? -- Conclusions and recommendations. |
| Summary, etc.: | The challenge that is defense planning includes: "educated futurology" and the humanities as methodological approaches; futurists and scenarios, trend spotting and defense analysis; the impossibility of science in studying the future; the impossibility of verification by empirical testing of hypotheses; the value of the humanities which are politics, strategy, and history for defense planning; the use and misuse of analogy; learning from history; why and how strategic history works; and recommendations for the Army. What can be learned from history and what cannot are discussed in this analysis. |
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| Subject: | Military planning > United States. National security > United States > Forecasting. United States > Armed Forces > Planning. |
