Command : the politics of military operations from Korea to Ukraine / Lawrence Freedman.
By: Freedman, Lawrence [author.]
Publisher: London : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2022Description: xvii, 588 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : photographs (black and white), mapsContent type: text | cartographic image | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780241456996Subject(s): Military art and science -- Technological innovations | Command of troops -- History -- 20th century | Command of troops -- History -- 21st century | Strategy -- Political aspects | Military history, Modern -- 20th century | Military history, Modern -- 21st centuryDDC classification: 355.33041 Summary: "Throughout history, the concept of command -- as both a way to achieve objectives and as an assertion of authority -- has been essential to military action and leadership. But, as Sir Lawrence Freedman shows, it is also deeply political. Military command has been reconstructed and revolutionized since the Second World War by nuclear warfare, small-scale guerrilla land operations and cyber interference. Freedman takes a global perspective, systematically investigating its practice and politics since 1945 through a wide range of conflicts from the French Colonial Wars, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bangladesh Liberation War to North Vietnam's Easter Offensive of 1972, the Falklands War, the Iraq War and Russia's wars in Chechnya and Ukraine. By highlighting the political nature of strategy, Freedman shows that military decision-making cannot be separated from civilian priorities and that commanders must now have the sensibility to navigate politics as well as warfare."-- |cPenguin site. Taken from publisher's website. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/317543/command-by-freedman-lawrence/9780241456996
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 355.33041 FRE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 020527 |
"Throughout history, the concept of command -- as both a way to achieve objectives and as an assertion of authority -- has been essential to military action and leadership. But, as Sir Lawrence Freedman shows, it is also deeply political. Military command has been reconstructed and revolutionized since the Second World War by nuclear warfare, small-scale guerrilla land operations and cyber interference. Freedman takes a global perspective, systematically investigating its practice and politics since 1945 through a wide range of conflicts from the French Colonial Wars, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bangladesh Liberation War to North Vietnam's Easter Offensive of 1972, the Falklands War, the Iraq War and Russia's wars in Chechnya and Ukraine. By highlighting the political nature of strategy, Freedman shows that military decision-making cannot be separated from civilian priorities and that commanders must now have the sensibility to navigate politics as well as warfare."-- |cPenguin site. Taken from publisher's website.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/317543/command-by-freedman-lawrence/9780241456996