Defense Planning for National Security: Navigation AIDS for the Mystery Tour

by Colin S. Gray

2021-01-08 08:13:35

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 impossibili... Read more
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. Less

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File size9.61 X 6.69 X 0.15 in
Print pages70
PublisherBooks Express Publishing
Publication date March 19, 2014
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781782666509
Colin Gray is Professor of Politics & Strategic Studies at the University of Reading. He has dual British/American nationality and has been an advisor to British and American governments for twenty-fi...

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