Shaping Strategy The Civil-Military Politics of Strategic Assessment

Name: Shaping Strategy The Civil-Military Politics of Strategic Assessment
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ISBN: 9780691136684

ISBN-10: 0691136688

ISBN-13: 9780691136684

Edition: 2008

Authors: Risa Brooks

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Good strategic assessment doesn't 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. InShaping 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…

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List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 4/13/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 0.990



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Significance of Strategic Assessment



Explaining Variation in Strategic Assessment



Egypt in the Mid-1960s



Egypt in the 1970s



Britain and Germany and the First World War



Pakistan and Turkey in the Late 1990s



U.S. Postconflict Planning for the 2003 Iraq War


Conclusion: Findings and Implications


References


Index