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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Military effectiveness"”.
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Explaining military effectiveness : political intervention and battlefield performance
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 2011.
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Organization and community : the determinants of insurgent military effectiveness
… analysis of how some groups have developed the military capacity to challenge superior forces. The importance of this question has been illustrated by the recent rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Yet, existing research provides limited insight as (1) it has not conceptualized military …
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The influence of Arab culture on Arab military effectiveness
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1996.
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A military effectiveness analysis and decision making framework for naval ship design and acquisition
… research develops a new framework for performing military effectiveness analyses and design tradeoff decisions. It provides an extensive survey of literature for effectiveness analysis and multi-criteria decision making to develop a single consistent philosophy for such analyses. This philosophy …
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Complexity, Conflict, and Cooperation: The Micropolitics of American Civil-Military Relations in Small Wars, 1945-Present
<p>This dissertation examines the political-military effectiveness of U.S. small-scale, long-duration military advisory missions focused upon the mission of foreign internal defense within the subset of so-called "small wars." Why focus on this issue? First, an explicit assumption of the …
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War by coalition : the effects of coalition military institutionalization on coalition battlefield effectiveness
What accounts for variation in the military performance of coalitions and alliances on the battlefield? This dissertation presents and tests a realist-institutionalist theory of coalition military effectiveness, which accounts for both the process of capability aggregation within military …
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Legions or legends : assessing U.S. Army and Marine effectiveness in the Korean War, 1950-1951
This study compares the military effectiveness of the United States Army and United States Marine Corps during the first 10 months of the Korean War. Representative battles selected from the Pusan Perimeter, the Liberation of Seoul, and the Retreat from the Yalu are analyzed using a process-tracing …
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The Development of Britain's Airborne Forces during the Second World War
… or apparently observable trends in the military effectiveness. The execution and results of most British airborne operations are extensively recorded within the extant historiography. However, there has been no attempt to examine the process of airborne capability development as a method …
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US Government Outsourcing, the Private Military Industry, and Operation Iraqi Freedom: A Case Study in Conflict Contracting
This thesis analyzes state utilization of private military and security companies (PMSC), using United States Government (USG) outsourcing during Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) as a case study to investigate how PMSCs influence interstate conflicts. Cost savings are a primary justification for …
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The analysis of Soviet military manpower
The effectiveness of any military force can be determined by the capabilities and reliability of its individual members. This has always been the primary concern for military strategists and decision makers. Prediction of human performance is still a problem for the administrative science area as …
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Off-Limits: The U.S. Army’s Campaign Against Housing Discrimination
… the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, arguing that military leaders gradually recognized housing discrimination as a significant impediment to military effectiveness and morale. Initially, the Army’s approach was characterized by a reluctance to confront segregation due to political pressures and …
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A methodology for determining Third World submarine capabilities case study: Iran
… that contribute to operadonal readiness and military effectiveness of a submarine force. The areas discussed are national characteristics, research and development, equipment, training, and operations. The scope, of die thesis is very broad in nature, and covers topics as varied as preventive …
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Sickness and Service: The British Army and the First World War
… links between the health of the troops and military effectiveness. In order to undertake this assessment in any meaningful way, indicators of military effectiveness need to be determined, and six such indicators are defined within the thesis. To establish a better understanding of how far …
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INDONESIAN NATIONAL ARMED FORCES EFFECTIVENESS IN THE HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE/DISASTER RELIEF ROLES
… thesis attempts to analyze the evolving role and effectiveness of Tentara Nasional Indonesia (TNI, Indonesia National Armed Forces) in humanitarian aid and disaster relief (HA/DR), focusing on comparative case studies of the 2004 Aceh Earthquake and the COVID-19 pandemic response. Applying Matei …
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Regime legitimacy and military resilience : lessons from World War II and Yugoslavia
This thesis argues that regime legitimacy creates military resilience. A regime is legitimate when its constituents believe-whether because of ideological solidarity, patriotism, nationalism, or good governance-that a government has the right to exercise authority in its regime. Military …
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'Not in Glorious Battle Slain’: Disease and Death in the Royal Navy’s Western Squadron during the Seven Years’ War
… governors. The infected troops limited British military effectiveness, and threatened the success of operations, as seen in the delay of the siege of Louisbourg in 1757, and the defeat of the British forces outside Quebec City in 1760. The experience with disease within a wartime context allowed …
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Armed forces, states and threats : civil-military institutions and military power in modern democracies
… questions preoccupying political scientists, military officers and policymakers alike are how should and how do political leaders interact with military professionals? This thesis argues that historic patterns of civil-military relations underlay distinct national defense policymaking …
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Explaining cohesion, fragmentation, and control in insurgent groups
… of insurgent groups helps us understand the military effectiveness of armed groups, patterns of violence against civilians, and the ability of insurgent organizations to negotiate and demobilize, but the causes of insurgent cohesion and fragmentation have not been systematically or …
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Building partner armies : US lessons for an era of strategic competition
… to generate and test a novel theory of SFA effectiveness. The empirical foundation is a controlled comparison of three cases of American SFA in a previous era of strategic competition: South Korea before and during the Korean War, Turkey in the aftermath of World War II, and Iran under the …