Essays on Strategy 12Spans a broad horizon of strategic topics: the use of sanctions, the relationship with the U.N., and the more subtle changes and responsibilities facing our Operational Commanders. Contents: failed U.S. China Policy, America's Asia Policy, U.S. Post-Cold War Policy, U.S. Security in the 21st Century, Deficits: Restructuring the Military, Planning for War Termination, Planning for CNN Wars, expanding our vision of jointness, military theory and peace operations, the U.S. dilemma in peace operations and change and the operation commander. |
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He advocates, and supports with compelling logic, a pro-active approach to dealing with the media, rejecting defensive actions as counter-productive and shortsighted. He concludes, "The human face of our policies becomes our arsenal and ...
He advocates, and supports with compelling logic, a pro-active approach to dealing with the media, rejecting defensive actions as counter-productive and shortsighted. He concludes, "The human face of our policies becomes our arsenal and ...
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The one area in which President Clinton has taken a significantly different approach from that of President Bush concerns China's MFN status. However, whether this represents a substantive difference or merely a superficial one is not ...
The one area in which President Clinton has taken a significantly different approach from that of President Bush concerns China's MFN status. However, whether this represents a substantive difference or merely a superficial one is not ...
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This action by President Clinton represents the latest in an extensive series of U.S. Government actions, since the Tiananmen Square incident in 1989, designed to pressure China to alter its approach to human rights.
This action by President Clinton represents the latest in an extensive series of U.S. Government actions, since the Tiananmen Square incident in 1989, designed to pressure China to alter its approach to human rights.
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... in partnership with the UN or other appropriate groupings to respond to the threat.112 She stressed further that through this approach we benefit from the "voice of the community of nations in behalf of a cause that we support.
... in partnership with the UN or other appropriate groupings to respond to the threat.112 She stressed further that through this approach we benefit from the "voice of the community of nations in behalf of a cause that we support.
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Critics of this approach are likely to suggest that this is a formula for inaction. However, although the United States may be the most powerful country, militarily, economically, and politically, it is contrary to our own democratic ...
Critics of this approach are likely to suggest that this is a formula for inaction. However, although the United States may be the most powerful country, militarily, economically, and politically, it is contrary to our own democratic ...
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Page 345 - The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish. ..the kind of war on which they are embarking; neither mistaking it for, nor trying to turn it into, something that is alien to its nature.
Page 254 - The function of news is to signalize an event, the function of truth is to bring to light the hidden facts, to set them into relation with each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act.
Page 387 - New Challenges for UN Military Operations: Implementing an Agenda for Peace," 19 Washington Quarterly, Winter 1993, pp.
Page 263 - From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe.
Page 87 - What is at stake is more than one small country; it is a big idea: a new world order, where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind — peace and security, freedom, and the rule of law.
Page 150 - ... the original political objects can greatly alter during the course of the war and may finally change entirely since they are influenced by events and their probable consequences.
Page 254 - The press ... is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly about, bringing one episode and then another out of darkness into vision.
Page 399 - For the real environment is altogether too big, too complex, and too fleeting for direct acquaintance. We are not equipped to deal with so much subtlety, so much variety, so many permutations and combinations. And although we have to act in that environment, we have to reconstruct it on a simpler model before we can manage with it.
Page 187 - To provide and maintain a Navy ; To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions...
Page 18 - The second set of sanctions announced only two weeks later was imposed in response to the continued "wave of violence and reprisals by the Chinese authorities against those who have called for democracy.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Essays on Strategy 12 |
| Editor | John N. Petrie |
| Publisher | DIANE Publishing, 1996 |
| ISBN | 0788128973, 9780788128974 |
| Length | 415 pages |
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