Download e-book for kindle: The Military Lens: Doctrinal Difference and Deterrence by Christopher P. Twomey

By Christopher P. Twomey

ISBN-10: 0801449146

ISBN-13: 9780801449147

within the army Lens, Christopher P. Twomey indicates how differing army doctrines have resulted in misperceptions among the U.S. and China over overseas policy—and the aptitude risks those may well pose in destiny kinfolk. due to their varied strategic events, histories, and armed forces cultures, countries can have noticeably disparate definitions of powerful army doctrine, process, and features. Twomey argues that once such doctrines—or "theories of victory"—differ throughout states, misperceptions a couple of rival's functions and intentions and fake optimism approximately one's personal usually tend to take place. In flip, those can bog down foreign international relations and statecraft through making it more challenging to speak and agree on exams of the stability of energy. whilst states have interaction in strategic coercion—either to discourage or to compel action—such difficulties may end up in escalation and battle. Twomey assesses a big selection of resources in either the U.S. and China on army doctrine, strategic tradition, misperception, and deterrence concept to construct case reviews of makes an attempt at strategic coercion in the course of Sino-American conflicts in Korea and the Taiwan Strait within the early years of the chilly warfare, in addition to an exam of comparable concerns within the Arab-Israeli clash. After demonstrating how those components have contributed to prior conflicts, Twomey amply records the endurance of dangerous miscommunication in modern Sino-American kin. His precise analytic viewpoint on army power means that policymakers have to conscientiously think of the army doctrine of the international locations they are attempting to influence.

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