Author: United States Air Force AcademyPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 99
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Soldiers and Statesmen - Proceedings of the Fourth Military History Symposium, United States Air Force Academy, October 22-23, 1970
Author: United States Air Force AcademyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
Soldiers and Statesmen - the Proceedings of the 4Th Military History Symposium United States Air Force Academy 22-23 October 1970
Author: United States. Air Force. Office of Air Force HistoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Soldiers and Statesmen
Author: Monte D. WrightPublisher:
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Category : Military history, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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SOLDIERS and STATESMEN: the Proceedings of the 4th Military History Symposium United States Air Force Academy, 22-23 October 1970
Author: Office of Air Force HistoryPublisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781508674320
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
This symposium, the fourth in the series sponsored jointly by the Department of History and the Association of Graduates of the Air Force Academy, was of particular interest to those of us charged with responsibility for professional education in the military services. Especially at the National War College, most of whose graduates move on to high staff and command responsibilities, the value of so enlightened a discussion of the relationships between soldiers and statesmen cannot be overemphasized. Statecraft through the ages has called upon the soldier and the statesman to play vital roles in attaining the preeminent goal of national security. There has been a tendency, particularly in recent years, to separate and often dichotomize the two professions. In part this can be attributed to scholarly commentators who, for legitimate analytical purposes, often separate the two elements. This intellectual division is further compounded by the increasing degree of functional specialization required of the modern soldier and diplomat. Today's national security policy-maker, as compared to his predecessors of only a generation ago, requires much greater technical knowledge and expertise. It is little wonder then that a type of myopic egocentrism develops as the soldier or diplomat wrestles with the complex problems of the "here and now." Inundated with data, beset by the conflicting advice of subordinates and demands of superiors, and inexorably constrained by compressed decision time, he has little opportunity to reflect on the wider implications of his decisions. Yet it is not an exaggeration to insist that in our age and in the foreseeable future the soldier and the diplomat must work together more closely than ever before. Nuclear weapons and Vietnam have demonstrated both the strength and the limitations that can be placed on the use of military force; the Cold War and containment have provided a similar demonstration for diplomacy. The development of a new modus vivendi poses challenges of the highest order as new power configurations emerge to displace the old and as increased demands for solution of domestic problems attain higher priority in the competition for limited national resources. The challenge, however, is not limited to the practitioners of statecraft. It is here that the scholar must lend his talents, not only to provide the elongated perspective of history, which helps free us from generational egocentrism, but also to collect, distill, and collate the wisdom of the giants upon whose shoulders new pygmies will build. The scholars, both guest and resident, at the Fourth Military History Symposium of the United States Air Force Academy have more than met their challenge. For this reason, therefore, I commend to statesman and soldier, as well as to other interested scholars, this, the record of their proceedings.
Soldiers and Statesmen
Author: L. J. PaszekProceeding's of the Military History Symposium, USAF Academy
Author: United States. Air ForcePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Soldiers and Statesmen
Author: Monte D. WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military history, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The military and society : the proceedings...
Author: Military History Symposium. 5. 1972. Colorado Springs, ColoPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428993207
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Allies and Adversaries
Author: Mark A. StolerPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807862304
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
During World War II the uniformed heads of the U.S. armed services assumed a pivotal and unprecedented role in the formulation of the nation's foreign policies. Organized soon after Pearl Harbor as the Joint Chiefs of Staff, these individuals were officially responsible only for the nation's military forces. During the war their functions came to encompass a host of foreign policy concerns, however, and so powerful did the military voice become on those issues that only the president exercised a more decisive role in their outcome. Drawing on sources that include the unpublished records of the Joint Chiefs as well as the War, Navy, and State Departments, Mark Stoler analyzes the wartime rise of military influence in U.S. foreign policy. He focuses on the evolution of and debates over U.S. and Allied global strategy. In the process, he examines military fears regarding America's major allies--Great Britain and the Soviet Union--and how those fears affected President Franklin D. Roosevelt's policies, interservice and civil-military relations, military-academic relations, and postwar national security policy as well as wartime strategy.
Science, Technology, and Warfare
Author: Monte D. WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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