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Book The U.S. and Canadian Army strategies : failures in understanding / Stephen Brent Appleton.
Associated Name: Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute.
Publication year: 2003.
Language: English
Call Number U413.R336 A66 2003
Media class: Book
Publisher: [Carlisle Barracks, Pa.] : Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College
ISBN: 1584871407
Notes:
"September 2003."
Issued previously as a Strategic Research Project; see AD-A 415 478.
Series title: Carlisle papers in security strategy
Extent: v, 54 p. : ill., charts ; 28 cm.
Description:
The business community has borrowed freely from and refined military thinking. This practice has been in large part credited with the enormous success of the industrial expansion of the United States and Canada. Many of today's multicorporations gained global prominence from adopting and employing military concepts and people. But the phenomenon has not been altogether one-sided. Since the 1970s, the military profession has, in turn, embraced organizational thinking and business practices. The author will focus on the military's attempt to assimilate aspects of management and organizational theory, as well as business experience, to bring direction and meaning to its present and future placement in the 21st century. More specifically, he will examine the formal strategies of both the U.S. and Canadian Armies within the context of present organizational thinking as taught by leading institutions and utilized by Corporate North America. The author will argue that the penchant of both armies to internalize business concepts and strategies has left the two nations' armies in a perilous situation pertaining to strategy formulation and direction. Using current management and organizational models, the author intends to identify the fundamental weaknesses within the two armies' strategies. More importantly, as both armies engage enterprise-wide transformation, the author will demonstrate how this fundamental weakness in cognition and application has the very real possibility of jeopardizing the relevancy of both nations' land forces.
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