The Fog of Peace and War Planning: Military Strategic Planning under Uncertainty (2006) By Talbot C. Imlay & Monica D. Toft
 
Given both the importance and the difficulties involved in military planning, existing research has tended to focus almost exclusively on immediate pre-war and wartime periods surrounding the First and Second World Wars and has neglected peacetime periods and the specific challenges that planners must face. This volume sets out to examine and analyse how governments and military organizations planned for an uncertain and potentially threatening future during four different peacetime periods spanning from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the aftermath of the Second World War. For each period the authors have explored how the changing nature of military technology and hence of warfare affected military planning and provided a number of case studies designed to illustrate the challenges and opportunities planners faced within their respective periods. Finally the book discusses what lessons can be drawn from past cases of military planning.
 
This book will be of foremost interest to students in military and strategic studies as well as military college staff, policymakers, and think tanks.
 
Soft Cover
282 Pages
In Good Condition