Defense Planning for National Security: Navigation AIDS for the Mystery Tour
by Colin S. Gray
2021-01-08 08:13:35
Defense Planning for National Security: Navigation AIDS for the Mystery Tour
by Colin S. Gray
2021-01-08 08:13:35
The challenge that is defense planning includes: "educated futurology" and the humanities as methodological approaches; futurists and scenarios, trend spotting and defense analysis; the impossibility of science in studying the future; the impossibili...
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The challenge that is defense planning includes: "educated futurology" and the humanities as methodological approaches; futurists and scenarios, trend spotting and defense analysis; the impossibility of science in studying the future; the impossibility of verification by empirical testing of hypotheses; the value of the humanities which are politics, strategy, and history for defense planning; the use and misuse of analogy; learning from history; why and how strategic history works; and recommendations for the Army. What can be learned from history and what cannot are discussed in this analysis.
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