By Tom Clancy, John Gresham
They're despatched to the world's scorching spots-on covert missions fraught with hazard. they're known as directly to practice on the height in their actual and psychological features, primed for wrestle and surveillance, but able to pitch in with catastrophe aid operations. they're the Army's specified Forces teams. Now stick to Tom Clancy as he delves into the educational and instruments, missions and approach of those elite operatives.
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Moreover, the IAF would be hitting "an alert enemy protected by a lethal missile screen. "42 Potential losses might cripple the air force for the rest of the war. These arguments would all hold true during a war as well. Dayan' s admission is quite remarkable. As Defense Minister, he had just spent 5 0 percent of his country's scarce defense resources on forces that he suddenly deemed both politically and militarily useless. His air force seems to have presented him with preemptive strike plans that acknowledged little change since 1967, when clearly a great deal had changed .
Another fair assumption is that individual political actors are sufficiently ra tional to have some sense of what both they and their fellows can do. Beyond determining the mere distribution of power, it is important to know if that power is distributed according to any fixed principle. Does the distribution of power, intendedly or unintendedly, protect any particular value? Within organizations (and states, for that matter) power is dis tributed to achieve functional specialization-an intense division of labor.
Explaining Military Doctrine Choice of Cases The preceding remarks directly raise the questions of the choice of cases and the method by which the cases have been researched . The prewar doctrines of Britain, France, and Germany were chosen as cases for five reasons . First, this period is one in which widespread conclusions were drawn about the implications of military technology based upon experiences with the technology. Second, this is a period that saw major innovations in doctrine--Blitzkrieg and Fighter Com mand (the first integrated air defense in history)-and one minor innovation-the Maginot Line .