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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"military strategy"”.
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Sailors, Soldiers and Statesmen: The Conceptual Context of British Naval and Military Strategy, 1902-1914
This thesis posits that although national defence strategy must ultimately be determined by civilian ministers its roots lie in the conceptual foundations of the professional armed services, which represent the primary sources of strategic advice. Consequently, the relative depth and coherence of …
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Post-9/11 US civil-military relations and control of military strategy during Operation Iraqi Freedom
Current understanding of the post-9/11 US civil-military power relationship is clouded by the existence of various competing propositions as to whether civilian policymakers, military leaders or a combination of both have had the greatest influence in determining military strategy in Iraq. …
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Mare Imperium: the Evolution of Freedom of the Seas Discourse in U.S. Foreign Policy
… lying at the heart of American political-military strategy in the Western Pacific. This project aims to accomplish two goals. First, this project aims to show that freedom of the seas is not an enduring historical principle consistently championed by the United States, as is often claimed …
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Assertive Disarmament: the Other Arms Control
Assertive disarmament is the use of military force to delay or terminate the progress of nascent or ongoing nuclear, biological, and chemical weapon programs along with, perhaps, their associated ballistic missile programs. Such capabilities in the hands of hostile powers increasingly threaten the …
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The Spanish Intervention in Brittany and the Failure of Philip II's Bid for European Hegemony, 1589-1598
… in his recent article on the ""The Making of Strategy in Habsburg Spain: Philip II's bid for Mastery, 1556-1598,"" (1994) arguing that the lack of a viable strategy doomed the Spanish war effort in Europe. Yet neither Kennedy nor Parker have investigated Spain's role in the most crucial and …
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The Strength of Weakness: Weaponized Information
… has recently implemented a foreign policy strategy aimed at subverting the West’s ability to deter Russia from destabilizing its neighbors. This strategy combines elements of conventional military strategy with “weaponized information” in order to achieve success in the political and …
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The Military of Guatemala and Niklas Luhmann's Theory of Autopoietic Social Systems
… This paper investigates the political and military strategy of Guatemala's armed forces during the 1960s-1990s civil war from the perspective of the theory of autopoietic social systems. It thereby illustrates and illuminates Luhmann's highly abstract theoretical framework and demonstrates …
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The relevance of STS to peach research: the need for a third voice on nuclear strategy
… of peace research to the "scientization" of military strategy, i.e, the application of decision-theoretic and Simulation methods to nuclear policy. Debates on nuclear deterrence between nuclear strategists and peace researchers tend to get polarized in terms of an objective analysis of the …
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The Preemptive Paradox: The Rise of Great Powers & Management of the International System
… advances the argument that a great power’s military strategy is premised on its national interests. It argues that the reason incumbent powers rarely preempt the rise of aspiring powers is because of the low level of threat they pose to states. Incumbent great powers are far more concerned …
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Cyber Warfare Strategy in the People's Republic of China
… information warfare and cyber warfare in Chinese military strategy. Cyber warfare is viewed as a force multiplier, the Chinese have a prospective that cyber is a strategic capability potentially capable of achieving victory before war breaks out. This thesis examines strategic considerations and …
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Russia's New Military Doctrine: Blueprint For a Renewed Threat
This thesis examines various aspects of Russian military and security policy as a result of the adoption of Russia's military doctrine in November 1993. Tracing the development of Soviet military strategy and doctrine from the late nineteen seventies, it argues that the Russian military doctrine …
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Oracular prophecy and psychology in Ancient Greek warfare.
… extent to which it affected the psychology and military decision-making of ancient Greek poleis. By using a wide range of ancient literary, epigraphical, archaeological and iconographical evidence and relevant modern scholarship, this thesis will fully explore the role of the Oracle in warfare …
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United States Military Preparedness
… nature, criteria, and inadequacies of America's military preparedness. In examining military preparedness, the thesis has found that military preparedness consists of five pillars: force structure, strategic mobility, ballistic missile defense, modernization and procurement, and operational …
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A Decision Support Model for Large Systems Using Quality Function Deployment and Goal Programming: A Capital Budgeting Problem
… deal of research has been done in the areas of military strategy, quality function deployment, capital budgeting, and goal programming, as separate areas of study. This thesis details the research and analysis performed for a project called The Fighter Configuration Plan (FICOP), in which these …
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Volunteering to lead: Combat affairs that shaped the command philosophy of Major Rufus R. Dawes, U.S.A. and Captain James Cooper Nisbet, C.S.A. (1861-1862)
… Civil War battles often resulted in direction of military strategy being passed over into the junior officer ranks. These volunteer leaders fought directly with the regular volunteer soldier that filled the ranks of both Union and Confederate armies. In exchange for their position amongst the …
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How was Richard Haldane able to reform the British Army? An historical assessment using a contemporary change management model
… how political expediency, foreign policy and military strategy influenced Haldane and why his nation in arms concept did not improve the public’s perception of the regular and auxiliary forces. The dissertation concludes that Haldane understood the intellectual complexities of institutional …
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Security Cooperation Poorly Defined
… United States. Despite this fact, insufficient military or academic attention has been applied to the subject. The academic and professional void created by this inattention has led academic, journalistic, and military professionals to misuse the term security cooperation, and stray from its …
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The Taliban the Second Time Around: The Evolution of Taliban Strategy and Tactics and Future Scenarios For Afghanistan
The Taliban emerged as a military force during the Afghan civil war in 1994. By 1996, the Taliban had seized control of most of Afghanistan and established an Islamic government that enforced a strict interpretation of Sharia law. The Taliban provided sanctuary to al Qaeda before and after the 9/11 …
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Statesmen, Soldiers, and Strategy: The Influence of Civil-Military Relations on U.S. National Security Decision-Making
… identifies key linkages between a state's civil-military relations and its international relations. It shows that there is a clear connection between a state's civil-military relations and the making of strategy. This study analyzes how different patterns of civil-military relations affect a …
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