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America, technology and strategic culture : a Clausewitzian assessment / Brice F. Harris.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harris, Brice F.
- Series:
- Cass series--strategy and history ; 23.
- Cass series--strategy and history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Military art and science--Technological innovations--United States.
- Military art and science.
- Military art and science--Technological innovations.
- Strategic culture.
- United States.
- Military doctrine--United States.
- Military doctrine.
- Strategy.
- Strategic culture--United States.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 220 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
- Contents:
- Theorising war and strategy 2
- Thesis 5
- Culture is as culture does 6
- An American perspective on twenty-first century warfare 7
- OIF and the NCW/EBO construct 9
- Part I On pursuing strategic excellence 11
- 2 On conflict and culture: a theoretical exposition 13
- On the theory and nature of war 14
- On the art and science of strategy 21
- On strategic culture 30
- 3 The American strategic approach: a functional analysis 40
- America's once and future approach to war 41
- Network-centric warfare: origins of an idea 43
- Wave of the future: net-centricity and effects-based operations 60
- Getting there from here: America's defence transformation initiative 65
- 4 The American strategic approach: a cultural analysis 74
- Forging a culture of technology 77
- Utilitarianism and the American system of higher education 83
- Ends, means, and the strategy of technology 88
- Part II On achieving strategic dissonance 97
- 5 The American strategic approach: a Clausewitzian analysis 99
- To be or not to be (a new theory of war): that is the question 99
- Theoretical viability, technical feasibility: NCW in focus 104
- Theoretical viability, technical feasibility: EBO in focus 121
- 6 The Iraq War in context 132
- Casus belli and the ends of policy 133
- Ante bellum, in bello: operationalising America's strategy of technology 138
- Post bellum: re/defining success 146
- 7 Observations and conclusions 152.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [155]-214) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415775847
- 0415775841
- 9780203892121
- 0203892127
- OCLC:
- 212375966
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