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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: 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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