Assessing war : the challenge of measuring success and failure /

Assessing war : the challenge of measuring success and failure /

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Are we winning? Combatants often find themselves asking this question, especially during today's protracted asymmetrical conflicts where victory and defeat are not clear or easy to measure. Also, too often politics or wishful thinking take the place of objective assessment. Assessing War explor...

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Other Authors: Blanken, Leo J. (Editor), Rothstein, Hy S. (Editor), Lepore, Jason J. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Military planning > United States.
War > Decision making.
Strategy.
United States > Military policy.
United States > History, Military.
Military history.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / by Gen. George W. Casey, Jr.
  • Introduction
  • The challenge of wartime assessment / Leo J. Blanken and Jason J. Lepore
  • Theory
  • Principals, agents, and assessment / Leo J. Blanken and Jason J. Lepore
  • U.S. civil-military relations and operational assessments / Hy Rothstein
  • Wartime strategic assessment : concepts and challenges / Scott Sigmund Gartner
  • Historical cases
  • Assessing proxy forces : a case study of the early years of the Seven Years' War (1754-1763) in North America / John Grenier
  • Assessing war : the revolutionary war / Edward G. Lengel
  • Assessing enemy civilian will : the United States goes to war, 1861 / Brooks D. Simpson
  • "Keep 'em moving" : the role of assessment in US cavalry operations against the Plains Indians / Colonel Michael Richardson
  • Assessing the Philippine War / Brian Mcallister Linn
  • Putting the fuse to the powder : strategic assessment in the First World War / Scott Stephenson
  • Assessment in World War II / Gerhard l. Weinberg
  • Measuring gains on the battle field and at the peace table : shifting assessments during the Korean War / Conrad C. Crane
  • Choosing progress : evaluating the salesmanship of the Vietnam War in 1967 / Gregory Daddis
  • Current cases
  • Assessing counterinsurgency : the Iraq War, 2004-05 / Major General Bill C. Hix and Kalev I. Sepp
  • Circular logic and constant progress : IW assessments in Afghanistan / Alejandro S. Hernandez, Julian Ouellet, and Christopher J. Nannini
  • Monitoring from afar : how Al Qaeda assesses its progress / Mark Stout
  • Alternative dimensions of assessment
  • Assessment, proportionality, and justice in war
  • Bradley J. Strawser and Russell Muirhead
  • Assessing cyber war / Dorothy E. Denning
  • Assessing the war of ideas during war / Robert Reilly
  • Assessment of economic outcomes in nation-building operations / Aric P. Shafran
  • Conclusion
  • Can we learn from the assessment of war? / Anthony H. Cordesman and Hy Rothstein.

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