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Wars of revelation : the transformative effects of military intervention on grand strategy / Rebecca Lissner

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Titre(s)
  • Wars of revelation : the transformative effects of military intervention on grand strategy / Rebecca Lissner
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  • Wars of Revelation The Transformative Effects of Military Intervention on Grand Strategy Rebecca Lissner 2021 Oxford Oxford University Press 978-0-19-758322-7
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Publication
  • Oxford New York (N.Y.) : Oxford University press
Description matérielle
  • 1 volume (XII-225 pages) : couverture avec illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN
  • 978-0-19-758318-0
  • 978-0-19-758319-7
EAN
  • 9780197583197
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 355.033 073
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  • "More than seventy-five years since the end of World War II, military interventions - rather than major wars - have emerged as a defining feature of contemporary geopolitics. Yet, for all the fierce policy debates over interventions and their lessons, scholars have largely ignored the systematic linkages between these smaller-scale wars and transformations in the grand strategies of states that prosecute them. Wars of Revelation develops a new theory - the informational theory of strategic adjustment - to explain why military interventions can be crucibles of grand strategy. It argues that, by prosecuting a military intervention, states glean rich and rare information about adversaries' capabilities and intentions, as well as their own military power and cost tolerance. The uniquely costly nature of warfighting renders this data particularly credible. Amidst background conditions of intense interstate competition and pervasive uncertainty, states face strong incentives to reassess their grand strategies in light of this new information. This process of grand-strategic updating begins with a reassessment of the strategic assumptions directly tested on the battlefield, but it doesn't end there. Indeed, the grand strategic effects of military interventions are far-reaching because information conveyed via warfighting is widely extrapolated to related strategic assessments. Wars of Revelation demonstrates the plausibility of the informational theory of strategic adjustment in three historically detailed case studies that trace the evolution of American grand strategy over the course of the Cold War and into the early post-Cold War era: the Korean, Vietnam, and First Gulf Wars." (éd.)
  • "As American foreign policy experts anticipate a new Cold War with China, there is no better time to reflect on the evolution of the United States' grand strategy during its decades-long contest with Russia. Lissner shows that military interventions in Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq were crucibles for American foreign policy in the latter half of the 20th century, testing strategic axioms on the battlefield and compelling adjustments to Washington's conception of its global role. In each case, these wars of revelation provided searing insights into the capabilities and intentions of America's most dangerous international adversaries - as well as the potential and limits of its own national power. By centering her narrative of post-World War II American foreign relations on these pivotal episodes, Lissner provides an historically rich and theoretically compelling narrative that will interest readers keen to understand the past, present, and future of US grand strategy." (éd.)
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