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Trade Review
Builder's provocative book is institutional profile at its best, probing far beyond the flip phrases that usually describe the essence of each service, e.g., that the Air Force likes things it can fly. Foreign AffairsA RAND Corporation Research Study

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Part I: Personalities
Chapter 1. The Masks of War
Chapter 2. Five Faces of the Service Personalities
Chapter 3. The Service Identities and Behavior
Part II: Strategies
Chapter 4. What is Strategy?
Chapter 5. Service Strategies
Chapter 6. The Air Strategy
Chapter 7. The Navy and Strategy
Chapter 8. The Army and Strategy
Part III: Analysis
Chapter 9. What is Analysis?
Chapter 10. Service Styles Toward Analysis
Chapter 11. Images of Conflict
Part IV: Implications
Chapter 12. The Service Concepts of War
Chapter 13. Military Commitments to Combat
Chapter 14. Implications for Military Planning
Chapter 15. Implications for Regional Security
Part V: Prospects
Chapter 16. The Army's Identity Crisis
Chapter 17. Implications For the Future
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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    Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
    Publication Date: 29/03/1989
    ISBN13: 9780801837760, 978-0801837760
    ISBN10: 0801837766

    Description

    Book Synopsis


    Trade Review
    Builder's provocative book is institutional profile at its best, probing far beyond the flip phrases that usually describe the essence of each service, e.g., that the Air Force likes things it can fly. Foreign AffairsA RAND Corporation Research Study

    Table of Contents

    Foreword
    Preface
    Part I: Personalities
    Chapter 1. The Masks of War
    Chapter 2. Five Faces of the Service Personalities
    Chapter 3. The Service Identities and Behavior
    Part II: Strategies
    Chapter 4. What is Strategy?
    Chapter 5. Service Strategies
    Chapter 6. The Air Strategy
    Chapter 7. The Navy and Strategy
    Chapter 8. The Army and Strategy
    Part III: Analysis
    Chapter 9. What is Analysis?
    Chapter 10. Service Styles Toward Analysis
    Chapter 11. Images of Conflict
    Part IV: Implications
    Chapter 12. The Service Concepts of War
    Chapter 13. Military Commitments to Combat
    Chapter 14. Implications for Military Planning
    Chapter 15. Implications for Regional Security
    Part V: Prospects
    Chapter 16. The Army's Identity Crisis
    Chapter 17. Implications For the Future
    Notes
    Bibliography
    Index

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