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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778254103321

Titolo

Creating military power : the sources of military effectiveness

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-8047-6809-9

1-4356-0889-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Classificazione

355.02

Altri autori (Persone)

BrooksRisa

StanleyElizabeth A

Disciplina

355/.0332

Soggetti

Military readiness

Military art and science - History - 20th century

Armed Forces - History - 20th century

Militærvidenskab

Militærhistorie

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

GOBI

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: The Impact of Culture, Society, Institutions, and International Forces on Military Effectiveness""; ""Nationalism and Military Effectiveness: Post-Meiji Japan""; ""Social Structure, Ethnicity, and Military Effectiveness: Iraq, 1980-2004""; ""Political Institutions and Military Effectiveness: Contemporary United States and United Kingdom""; ""Civil-Military Relations and Military Effectiveness: Egypt in the 1967 and 1973 Wars""; ""Global Norms and Military Effectiveness: The Army in Early Twentieth-Century Ireland""

""International Competition and Military Effectiveness: Naval Air Power, 1919-1945""""International Alliances and Military Effectiveness: Fighting Alongside Allies and Partners""; ""Explaining Military Outcomes""; ""Conclusion""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

An examination of how societies, cultures, political structures, and the global environment affect countries' military organisations. Unlike most analyses of countries' military power, which focus on material and basic



resources - such as the size of population, technological and industrial base, and gross national product (GNP) - this volume takes a more expansive view. Its overarching argument is that states' global environments and the particularities of their cultures, social structures, and political institutions often affect how they organize and prepare for war, and ultimately impact their effectiveness in battle.