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Transformation and strategic surprise
- Title
- Transformation and strategic surprise / Colin S. Gray.
- Author
- Gray, Colin S.
- Publication
- [Carlisle Barracks, PA] : Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, [2005]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute.
- Description
- viii, 38 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- The possibility of achieving decisive results from short warning attacks appears to have improved greatly with technological advances. Indeed, strategic surprise offers both golden opportunities and lethal dangers, so it attracts much attention in today's world. Dr. Gray take s a broad view of strategic surprise, and relates it to the current military transformation. He argues that the kind of strategic usrprise to which the United States is most at risk and which is most dangerous to national security is the deep and pervasive connection between war and politics. Although America is usually superior at making war, it is far less superior in making peace out of war. Dr. Gray concludes that the current military transformation shows no plausible promise of helping to correct the long-standing U.S. weakness in the proper use of forces as an instrument of policy.
- Subject
- Note
- "April 2005."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 33-38).
- Additional Formats (note)
- Electronic version also available on the SSI website.
- ISBN
- 1584871849
- 9781584871842
- LCCN
- 2005410648
- OCLC
- ocm60406121
- 60406121
- SCSB-1366713
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library