Assessing war the challenge of measuring success and failure
Are we winning? Combatants often find themselves asking this question, especially during today's protracted asymmetrical conflicts where victory and defeat are not clear or easy to measure. Also, too often politics or wishful thinking take the place of objective assessment. Assessing War explor...
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TABLE OF CONTENTS / INHALTSVERZEICHNIS
FOREWORD / BY GEN. GEORGE W. CASEY, JR
.INTRODUCTION
THE CHALLENGE OF WARTIME ASSESSMENT / LEO J. BLANKEN AND JASON J. LEPORE
THEORY
PRINCIPALS, AGENTS, AND ASSESSMENT / LEO J. BLANKEN AND JASON J. LEPORE
U.S. CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS AND OPERATIONAL ASSESSMENTS / HY ROTHSTEIN
WARTIME STRATEGIC ASSESSMENT : CONCEPTS AND CHALLENGES / SCOTT SIGMUND
GARTNER
HISTORICAL CASES
ASSESSING PROXY FORCES : A CASE STUDY OF THE EARLY YEARS OF THE SEVEN
YEARS WAR (1754-1763) IN NORTH AMERICA / JOHN GRENIER
ASSESSING WAR : THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR / EDWARD G. LENGEL
ASSESSING ENEMY CIVILIAN WILL : THE UNITED STATES GOES TO WAR, 1861 /
BROOKS D. SIMPSON
KEEP EM MOVING : THE ROLE OF ASSESSMENT IN US CAVALRY OPERATIONS
AGAINST THE PLAINS INDIANS / COLONEL MICHAEL RICHARDSON
ASSESSING THE PHILIPPINE WAR / BRIAN MCALLISTER LINN
PUTTING THE FUSE TO THE POWDER : STRATEGIC ASSESSMENT IN THE FIRST WORLD
WAR / SCOTT STEPHENSON
ASSESSMENT IN WORLD WAR II / GERHARD L. WEINBERG
MEASURING GAINS ON THE BATTLE FIELD AND AT THE PEACE TABLE : SHIFTING
ASSESSMENTS DURING THE KOREAN WAR / CONRAD C. CRANE
CHOOSING PROGRESS : EVALUATING THE SALESMANSHIP OF THE VIETNAM WAR IN
1967 / GREGORY DADDIS
CURRENT CASES
ASSESSING COUNTERINSURGENCY : THE IRAQ WAR, 2004-05 / MAJOR GENERAL BILL
C. HIX AND KALEV I. SEPP
CIRCULAR LOGIC AND CONSTANT PROGRESS : IW ASSESSMENTS IN AFGHANISTAN /
ALEJANDRO S. HERNANDEZ, JULIAN OUELLET, AND CHRISTOPHER J. NANNINI
MONITORING FROM AFAR : HOW AL QAEDA ASSESSES ITS PROGRESS / MARK STOUT
ALTERNATIVE DIMENSIONS OF ASSESSMENT
ASSESSMENT, PROPORTIONALITY, AND JUSTICE IN WAR
BRADLEY J. STRAWSER AND RUSSELL MUIRHEAD
ASSESSING CYBER WAR / DOROTHY E. DENNING
ASSESSING THE WAR OF IDEAS DURING WAR / ROBERT REILLY
ASSESSMENT OF ECONOMIC OUTCOMES IN NATION-BUILDING OPERATIONS / ARIC P.
SHAFRAN
CONCLUSION
CAN WE LEARN FROM THE ASSESSMENT OF WAR? / ANTHONY H. CORDESMAN AND HY R
DIESES SCHRIFTSTUECK WURDE MASCHINELL ERZEUGT.
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