Add to ORKGThe aim of this essay is to show that naval power can be an unfortunate influence on foreign policy as well as a useful instruments that naval power can contribute to the distortion of foreign policy, as well as to its support; that it can be the vehicle for irrational as well as rational behavior; and that it can bite the hand that feeds it, as well as snarling at adversaries. The essay is an attempt to present the other side of the coin to the neoClausewitzian emphasis on clinical instrumentality, in which armed forces are conceived in terms of the clear-cut missions which they perform in the pursuit of political goals
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You have given me a lot of territory to cover this morning with the title: Political Factors in the...
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Let us assume that we know pretty well what our objectives are, what the objectives of our adversary...
Maritime strategy has always been concerned with the use of the sea for a purpose. In the modern wor...
The U.S. Navy’s traditional missions are generally less relevant today than in recent decades, becau...
You have given me a lot of territory to cover this morning with the title: Political Factors in the...
Ambitious in its purpose, this article seeks to explore the implications for NATO of developments in...
The Expansion of Force. Among the more important of the new complexities confronting both analysis...
Like other forms of military power, naval forces have a political function, only more so. And while ...
A common view among national security strategists is that the United States is courting trouble by i...
On 1 May 1919, the acting secretary of the Navy, Franklin D, Roosevelt, wrote the Secretary of State...
Historically the controversy over the war power and the controversy over the treaty power seem to ha...
The problem of realism in foreign policy is a special manifestation of a general philosophic and i...
A view point almost taken for granted among Defense officials is that national policy determines mil...
There has, in recent years, developed a striking similarity between the rationales developed by both...
The political abrasions that persist in the international power system require a rational employment...
There is a striking contrast between the concerns which dominate naval planning and force structure ...
Let us assume that we know pretty well what our objectives are, what the objectives of our adversary...
Maritime strategy has always been concerned with the use of the sea for a purpose. In the modern wor...
The U.S. Navy’s traditional missions are generally less relevant today than in recent decades, becau...
You have given me a lot of territory to cover this morning with the title: Political Factors in the...
Ambitious in its purpose, this article seeks to explore the implications for NATO of developments in...