Defense Planning for National Security: Navigation AIDS for the Mystery Tour (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781782666509)

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.

Author: Colin S. Gray,Strategic Studies Institute,U. S. Army War College Press
ISBN-10: 1782666508
ISBN-13: 9781782666509
Publisher: Military Bookshop
Language: English
Published: 03/19/2014
Pages: 70
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.15d