The Fog of Peace and War Planning: Military and Strategic Planning under Uncertainty (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415366960)

How do we plan under conditions of uncertainty? The perspective of military planners is a key organizing framework: do they see themselves as preparing to administer a peace, or preparing to fight a future war? Most interwar volumes examine only the 1920s and the 1930s. This new volume goes back, and forward in time, to draw on a greater expanse of history in order to tease out lessons for contemporary planners.

These chapters are grouped into four periods: 1815-1856, 1871-1914, 1918-1938, and post-Second World War. They progress from low-tech to high-tech concerns, for example, the first period examines armies, while the second period examines navies, the third asseses navies combined with air forces, and finally for the Kaiser chapter explores nuclear issues and decision-making.

Author: Talbot C. Imlay
ISBN-10: 0415366968
ISBN-13: 9780415366960
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 08/31/2006
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.42w x 0.85d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2007 pg. 313