Shaping Strategy : : The Civil-Military Politics of Strategic Assessment / / Risa Brooks.

Good strategic assessment does not guarantee success in international relations, but bad strategic assessment dramatically increases the risk of disastrous failure. The most glaring example of this reality is playing out in Iraq today. But what explains why states and their leaders are sometimes so...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION: The Significance of Strategic Assessment
  • TWO: Explaining Variation in Strategic Assessment
  • THREE: Egypt in the Mid-1960s
  • FOUR: Egypt in the 1970s
  • FIVE: Britain and Germany and the First World War
  • Six: Pakistan and Turkey in the Late 1990s
  • SEVEN: U.S. Postconflict Planning for the 2003 Iraq War
  • CONCLUSION: Findings and Implications
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX