US Defence Strategy from Vietnam to Operation Iraqi Freedom
examines the thirty-year transformation in American military
thought and defence strategy that spanned from 1973 through 2003.
During these three decades, new technology and operational
practices helped form what observers dubbed a 'Revolution in
Military Affairs' in the 1990s and a 'New American Way of War' in
the 2000s. Robert R. Tomes tells for the first time the story of
how innovative approaches to solving battlefield challenges gave
rise to non-nuclear strategic strike, the quest to apply
information technology to offset Soviet military advantages, and
the rise of 'decisive operations' in American military strategy. He
details an innovation process that began in the shadow of Vietnam,
matured in the 1980s as Pentagon planners sought an integrated
nuclear-conventional deterrent, and culminated with battles fought
during blinding sandstorms on the road to Baghdad in 2003. An
important contribution to military innovation studies, the book
also presents an innovation framework applicable to current defence
transformation efforts. This book will be of much interest to
students of strategic studies, US defence policy and US politics in
general.
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