Research Catalog

Title

Defense planning for national security : navigation aids for the mystery tour / Colin S. Gray.

Author

Gray, Colin S.,

Publication

Carlisle, PA : Strategic Studies Institute and U.S. Army War College Press, [2014]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Army War College (U.S.). Press, publisher. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2014004772
• Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute, publisher. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80120847

Description

ix, 59 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

The challenge that is defense planning includes: "educated futurology" and the humanities as methodological approaches; futurists and scenarios, trend spotting and defense analysis; the impossibility of science in studying the future; the impossibility of verification by empirical testing of hypotheses; the value of the humanities which are politics, strategy, and history for defense planning; the use and misuse of analogy; learning from history; why and how strategic history works; and recommendations for the Army. What can be learned from history and what cannot are discussed in this analysis.

Series Statement

Advancing strategic thought series

Uniform Title

Advancing strategic thought series.

Subjects

• Military planning > United States
• United States > Armed Forces > Planning
• National security > United States > Forecasting

Note

• "March 2014."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 51-59).

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available online in PDF format from Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) web site.

Contents

Purpose and problems -- Approaches -- What can we learn from strategic history? -- Conclusions and recommendations.

ISBN

• 1584876093
• 9781584876090

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library