| Defense Planning for National Security: Navigation AIDS for the Mystery Tour Contributor(s): Gray, Colin S. (Author), Strategic Studies Institute (Author), U. S. Army War College Press (Author) |
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ISBN: 1782666508 ISBN-13: 9781782666509 Publisher: Military Bookshop OUR PRICE: $11.35 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | International Relations - Arms Control - Political Science | Security (national & International) - Education |
| Physical Information: 0.15" H x 6.69" W x 9.61" (0.28 lbs) 70 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |