Understanding military doctrine : a multidisciplinary approach / Harald Hoiback.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Høiback, Harald, 1969- author.

Series:

Cass military studies.

Cass Military Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military doctrine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book puts military doctrine into a wider perspective, drawing on military history, philosophy, and political science. Military doctrines are institutional beliefs about what works in war; given the trauma of 9/11 and the ensuing 'War on Terror', serious divergences over what the message of the 'new' military doctrine ought to be were expected around the world. However, such questions are often drowned in ferocious meta-doctrinal disagreements. What is a doctrine, after all?This book provides a theoretical understanding of such questions. Divided into three parts, t

Contents:

pt. I. Preliminaries

pt. II. The anatomy of doctrine

pt. III. Why doctrine?.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-76031-8

0-203-55934-7

1-299-46953-1

1-136-76024-5

9780203559345

OCLC:

841914963