Stephen J. Cimbala

Through a Glass Darkly (eBook, PDF)

Looking at Conflict Prevention, Management, and Termination

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Cimbala shows why the prevention, management, and concluding of war all require an understanding of the subjective aspects of decision making as well as the hardware and tactics of military operations. A review of past cases of U.S. security policy decision making and a preview of some future problems are combined to distill important lessons about coping with conflict in the post-Cold War world.

These lessons include the awareness that some conflicts are unnecessarily provoked or prolonged on account of the gap between the perspectives and experiences of civilian policy makers and the views of the armed forces leadership. Another important lesson is that, in resolving or managing conflicts, perceptions, and expectations of leaders filter out alternatives that might have led to preferred solutions had they been attempted in good time. Of particular interest to policy makers, military professionals, and researchers involved with contemporary military issues.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313001031
• Artikelnr.: 68527823

Autorenporträt

STEPHEN J. CIMBALA is Professor of Political Science at Penn State University, Delaware County. He has contributed to the literature of international relations and U.S. security and defense policy for more than 20 years, and he has written or edited more than 30 books. Among his latest publications are Collective Insecurity (Greenwood, 1995) and Clinton and Post-Cold War Defense (Praeger, 1996). In addition, Cimbala serves on the editorial review boards of several journals, including Armed Forces and Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Past Cases Bargaining at the Brink: Otherness and the Cuban
Missile Crisis Wilderness of Mirrors: The 1983 "War Scare" in U.S.-Soviet
Relations Operation Desert Storm: A Truncated Triumph Present and Future
Cases Information Warfare and Nuclear Weapons: Back to the Future?
Armageddon by Osmosis: Must Nuclear Weapons Spread? Small Wars and Peace
Wars: Disarming the Devil Conclusion