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Book Time's cycle and national military strategy : the case for continuity in a time of change / David Jablonsky.
Associated Name: Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute.
Associated Name: U.S. Army War College Conference on Strategy 1995 : Carlisle Barracks, Pa.)
Publication year: 1995.
Language: English
Call Number U413.A66 J26 1995 ; U413.R32 J224 1995
Media class: Book
Publisher: [Carlisle Barracks, Pa.] : Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College
Notes:
"June 1, 1995"
"This monograph was prepared for the U.S. Army War College Annual Strategy Conference, 'Strategy During the Lean Years: Learning From the Past and the Present', April 1995, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania" -- p. [2] of cover.
Extent: v, 83 p. ; 23 cm.
Description:
Every April the Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute hosts its Annual Strategy Conference. This year's theme, "Strategy During the Lean Years: Learning from the Past and the Present," brought together scholars, serving and retired officers, and civilian defense officials from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom to discuss strategy formulation during times of penury from Tacitus to Force XXI. Dr. David Jablonsky, Professor of National Security Affairs at the Army War College, posits that the current challenge is to understand the role of both change and continuity in the dual aftermath of the end of the Cold War and a great military victory in the Persian Gulf War. The seeming end to the threat posed by the East-West confrontation of the past fifty years notwithstanding, the international community still looks to the United States, the world s only superpower, for leadership. But, argues Dr. Jablonsky, the U.S. military is caught between having to trim its size and force structure on the one hand, while preparing for a plethora of nontraditional missions on the other. Dr. Jablonsky makes the case that despite the vastly changed world order, basic principles of international relations still apply, and the United States would be ill-served by abandoning those principles. The current U.S. national security strategy and its derivative national military strategy are, indeed, products of change and continuity resulting from the dynamics established in inter-state relations over the past fifty years as well as by the end of the Cold War. For whatever else may have changed, national security remains the primary duty of the nation-state and the responsibility for achieving that mission still belongs to the military.
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