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Command : the twenty-first-century general / Anthony King,...

Type de contenu
  • Texte
Type de médiation
  • sans médiation
Type de support
  • Volume
Titre(s)
  • Command : the twenty-first-century general / Anthony King,...
Auteur(s)
Publication
  • Cambridge [etc.] : Cambridge University press, 2019
Description matérielle
  • 1 vol. (XX-484 p.) : photogr., tabl. ; 23 cm
ISBN
  • 978-1-108-47640-9
  • 1-108-47640-6
  • 978-1-108-70027-6
  • 1-108-70027-6
EAN
  • 9781108700276 br.
Autre variante du titre
  • [Command. the 21st-century general.]
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 355.330 41
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
  • Bibliogr. p. [461]-478. Index
Note sur le contenu
  • Command in the twenty-first century The division Defining command Twentieth-century operations Twentieth-century commander Leadership The counter-insurgents Kandahar The march up The new headquarters Distributing command The decision point The crisis The command collective
Résumé ou extrait
  • La 4e de couv. indique : ""In the wake of the troubled campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq, military decision-making appears to be in crisis and generals have been subjected to intense and sustained public criticism. Taking these interventions as a starting point, Anthony King examines the transformation of military command in the twenty-first century. Focusing on the army division, King argues that a phenomenon of collective command is developing. In the twentieth century, generals typically directed and led operations personally, monopolising decision-making. They commanded individualistically, even heroically. As operations have expanded in range and scope, decision-making has multiplied and diversified. As a result command is becoming increasingly professionalised and collaborative. Through interviews with many leading generals and vivid ethnographic analysis of divisional headquarters, this book provides a unique insight into the transformation of command in western armies."
  • Présentation de l'éditeur : "It would be convenient to claim that a book on command exemplified its own subject matter and that this work executed a clear, coherent research plan with military precision. The reality was quite different. Having completed The Combat Soldier in 2012 (to be published the following year), I fully intended to return to the topic of warfare and the armed forces but only after I had completed a long contemplated project on social theory and on the question of social change, in particular."
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