By Barry R. Posen
Barry R. Posen explores how army doctrine takes form and the position it performs in grand strategy―that number of army, monetary, and political skill and ends with which a nation makes an attempt to accomplish protection. Posen isolates 3 an important components of a given strategic doctrine: its offensive, protective, or deterrent features, its integration of army assets with political goals, and the measure of army or operational innovation it comprises. He then examines those elements of doctrine from the views of association concept and stability of strength conception, bearing in mind the effect of know-how and geography.
Looking at interwar France, Britain, and Germany, Posen demanding situations each one concept to give an explanation for the German Blitzkrieg, the British air safety process, and the French Army's protective doctrine frequently linked to the Maginot Line. This rigorous comparative examine, during which the stability of strength conception emerges because the extra priceless, no longer only
allows us to find very important implications for the learn of nationwide procedure at the present time, but additionally serves to sharpen our knowing of the origins of global battle II.
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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 .