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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780691188287
035 _a(DE-B1597)501656
035 _a(OCoLC)1076455153
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050 4 _aJF195
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082 0 4 _a355.02
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aBrooks, Risa
_eautore
245 1 0 _aShaping Strategy :
_bThe Civil-Military Politics of Strategic Assessment /
_cRisa Brooks.
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2018]
264 4 _c©2008
300 _a1 online resource
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --
_tINTRODUCTION: The Significance of Strategic Assessment --
_tTWO: Explaining Variation in Strategic Assessment --
_tTHREE: Egypt in the Mid-1960s --
_tFOUR: Egypt in the 1970s --
_tFIVE: Britain and Germany and the First World War --
_tSix: Pakistan and Turkey in the Late 1990s --
_tSEVEN: U.S. Postconflict Planning for the 2003 Iraq War --
_tCONCLUSION: Findings and Implications --
_tREFERENCES --
_tINDEX
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aGood strategic assessment does not guarantee success in international relations, but bad strategic assessment dramatically increases the risk of disastrous failure. The most glaring example of this reality is playing out in Iraq today. But what explains why states and their leaders are sometimes so good at strategic assessment--and why they are sometimes so bad at it? Part of the explanation has to do with a state's civil-military relations. In Shaping Strategy, Risa Brooks develops a novel theory of how states' civil-military relations affect strategic assessment during international conflicts. And her conclusions have broad practical importance: to anticipate when states are prone to strategic failure abroad, we must look at how civil-military relations affect the analysis of those strategies at home. Drawing insights from both international relations and comparative politics, Shaping Strategy shows that good strategic assessment depends on civil-military relations that encourage an easy exchange of information and a rigorous analysis of a state's own relative capabilities and strategic environment. Among the diverse case studies the book illuminates, Brooks explains why strategic assessment in Egypt was so poor under Gamal Abdel Nasser prior to the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and why it improved under Anwar Sadat. The book also offers a new perspective on the devastating failure of U.S. planning for the second Iraq war. Brooks argues that this failure, far from being unique, is an example of an assessment pathology to which states commonly succumb.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650 0 _aCivil-military relations
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aStrategy
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / General.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
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