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Throughout history, the concept of command -- as both a way to achieve objectives and as an assertion of authority -- has been essential to military action and leadership. But, as Sir Lawrence Freedman argues, it is also deeply political.Command has been reconstructed and revolutionized since the Second World War by nuclear warfare, small-scale guerrilla land operations and cyber interference. Freedman takes a global perspective, systematically investigating the practice and politics of command since 1945 through a wide range of conflicts from the French Colonial Wars, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bangladesh Liberation War to North Vietnam's Easter Offensive of 1972, the Falklands War, Russia's wars in Chechnya and Ukraine and the Iraq War. By highlighting the political nature of strategy, Freedman shows that military decision-making cannot be separated from civilian priorities and that commanders must now have the sensibility to navigate politics as well as warfare.

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Book category Books in German Sozialwissenschaften, Recht, Wirtschaft Sozialwissenschaften allgemein

• Full title: Command
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 608
• EAN: 9780241456996
• ISBN: 0241456991
• ID: 37482881
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 1060 g
• Dimensions: 165 × 242 × 41 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. September 2022

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