EAN: 9780241456996

COMMAND - LAWRENCE FREEDMAN GEBUNDEN

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 shows  it is also deeply political. Military 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 its practice and politics 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  the Iraq War and Russia's wars in
Chechnya and Ukraine. 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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