Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine 1st Edition

Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780197540671,0197540678,9780197540688, 0197540686

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0197540686
• ISBN-13: 9780197540688
• Author: Lawrence Freedman

This is largely because how wars are fought depends to a large extent on how their aims are set. It is also because commanders in one realm must possess the ability to work with other command structures, including those of other branches of the armed forces and allies. In Command, Lawrence Freedman explores the importance of political as well as operational considerations in command with a series of eleven vivid case studies, all taken from the period after 1945. Over this period, the risks of nuclear escalation led to a shift away from great power confrontations and towards civil wars, and advances in communication technologies made it easier for higher-level commanders to direct their subordinates.Freedman covers defeats as well as victories. Pakistani generals tried to avoid surrender as they were losing the eastern part of their country to India in 1971. Iraq’s Saddam Hussein turned his defeats into triumphant narratives of victory. Osama bin Laden escaped the Americans in Afghanistan in 2001.

Table contents:

1 Supreme Commander:Truman and MacArthur
2 The Fury of the Legions:The French Army in Indochinaand Algeria
3 Keeping Control:The Cuban Missile Crisis
4 The Very Model of Insubordination:Ariel Sharon and Israel’s Wars
5 Civil War:The Surrender of East Pakistan
6 Orders from on High: Responses toNorth Vietnam’s 1972 Offensive
7 Command in Theatre:The Falklands Campaign
8 Dictator as Supreme Commander:Saddam Hussein
9 Command in a Fragile State:Guevara, Kabila and the Congo
10 Command in a Faltering State:The Russian Invasion of Chechnya
11 Too Many Cooks: Kosovo in 1999
12 From Hybrid Conflict to All-OutWar:Russia Fights Ukraine
13 The War on Terror: The Battleof Tora Bora
14 A Tale of Two Surges: Iraq 2006–7
15 War among the People:Fighting the Taliban and Isis
16 Past, Present and Futureof Command

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