Changing Military Doctrine : Presidents and Military Power in Fifth Republic France, 1958-2000
STEN. RYNNING
Bok Engelsk 2001 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Santa Barbara : : ABC-CLIO, , 2001.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (252 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Figure and Tables; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Foreword; Preface; 1 International Power, Politics, and Military Doctrine; 2 Clash and Innovation: Charles de Gaulle and National Nuclear Deterrence; 3 Political Boomerang: Valery Giscard d'Estaing and the Failure of Enlarged Sanctuarization; 4 Engineering a Coalition for Change: François Mitterrand and Rapid Reaction Forces; 5 From Balance and Crisis to Community and Change: François Mitterrand, Jacques Chirac, and Conventional Force Projections; 6 Conclusion; Sources; Index. - As Rynning shows, armed forces have a natural interest in shaping military doctrine according to their resources, doctrinal traditions, as well as their assessment of the international environment. However, armed forces are also the instrument of policy-makers who are in charge of national security. Using civil-military relations in France from 1958 to the present as a case study, he shows when policy-makers are capable of controlling military doctrine as well as the means armed forces rely on to influence doctrine.||Some scholars argue that policy-makers can control military doctrine only whe
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| ISBN | 0275972860
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