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This book applies the cutting-edge socio-cultural model Cultural
Topography Analytic Framework (CTAF) pioneered in the authors'
earlier volume Strategic Culture and Weapons of Mass Destruction:
Culturally Based Insights into Comparative National Security
Policymaking (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) with an eye towards
isolating those vectors of nuclear decision-making on which the US
might exert influence within a foreign state. The case studies
included in this volume tackle a number of the nuclear
challenges-termed "nuclear thresholds"-likely to be faced by the US
and identify the most promising points of leverage available to
American policymakers in ameliorating a wide range of
over-the-horizon nuclear challenges. Because near and medium-term
nuclear thresholds are likely to involve both allies and
adversaries simultaneously, meaning that US response will require
strategies tailored to both the perception of threat experienced by
the actors in question, the value the actors place on their
relationship with the US, and the domestic context driving
decision-making. This volume offers a nuanced look at each actor's
identity, national norms, values, and perceptual lens in order to
offer culturally-focused insights into behavior and intentions.
This Handbook offers a collection of cutting-edge essays on all
aspects of strategic culture by a mix of international scholars,
consultants, military officers, and policymakers. The volume
explicitly addresses the analytical conundrums faced by scholars
who wish to employ or generate strategic cultural insights, with
substantive commentary on defining and scoping strategic culture,
analytic frameworks and approaches, levels of analysis, sources of
strategic culture, and modalities of change in strategic culture.
The chapters engage strategic culture at the civilizational,
regional, supra-national, national, non-state actor, and
organizational levels. Divided into five thematic parts, the volume
will appeal both to students new to the subject and to scholars who
wish to incorporate strategic culture into their toolbox of
analytical techniques. Part I assesses the evolving theoretical
strengths and weaknesses of the field. Part II lays out elements of
the theoretical and methodological foundations of the field,
including sources and components of strategic culture. Part III
presents a number of national strategic cultural profiles
representing the state of contemporary strategic culture
scholarship. Part IV addresses the utility of strategic culture for
practitioners and scholars. Part V summarizes the key theoretical
and practical insights offered by the volume’s contributors. This
handbook will be of much interest to students of strategic studies,
defense studies, security studies and International Relations in
general, as well as to professional practitioners.
This book applies the cutting-edge socio-cultural model Cultural
Topography Analytic Framework (CTAF) pioneered in the authors'
earlier volume Strategic Culture and Weapons of Mass Destruction:
Culturally Based Insights into Comparative National Security
Policymaking (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) with an eye towards
isolating those vectors of nuclear decision-making on which the US
might exert influence within a foreign state. The case studies
included in this volume tackle a number of the nuclear
challenges-termed "nuclear thresholds"-likely to be faced by the US
and identify the most promising points of leverage available to
American policymakers in ameliorating a wide range of
over-the-horizon nuclear challenges. Because near and medium-term
nuclear thresholds are likely to involve both allies and
adversaries simultaneously, meaning that US response will require
strategies tailored to both the perception of threat experienced by
the actors in question, the value the actors place on their
relationship with the US, and the domestic context driving
decision-making. This volume offers a nuanced look at each actor's
identity, national norms, values, and perceptual lens in order to
offer culturally-focused insights into behavior and intentions.
Bringing together experts from across the globe to provide a
comprehensive introduction to strategic studies, this is the only
overview to critically engage with both enduring and contemporary
issues that dominate strategy. Throughout the chapters, readers are
encouraged to explore key debates and alternative perspectives. A
debates feature considers key controversies and presents opposing
arguments, helping students to build critical thinking skills and
reflect upon a wide range of perspectives. The new edition has been
thoroughly updated to incorporate the latest developments in the
field of strategic studies. Four new chapters feature in-depth
coverage of cyber power and conflict, strategic culture, the
evolution of grand strategy in China, and the relationship between
military technology and warfare. Digital formats and resources The
seventh edition is available for students and institutions to
purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by online
resources - The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient
access along with functionality tools, navigation features and
links that offer extra learning support:
www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks - Online resources for students
include: case studies that help to contextualise and deepen
understanding of key issues; web links and further reading that
provide students with opportunities to deepen their understanding
of main topics and explore further areas of research interest; and
multiple choice questions that test students' knowledge of the
chapters and provide instant feedback. - Online resources for
lecturers include: customisable PowerPoint slides to ensure clarity
of explanation of key concepts and debates; and a test-bank of
questions to reinforce key concepts and test students'
understanding.
The United States Marine Corps has a unique culture that ensures
comradery, exacting standards, and readiness to be the first to
every fight. Yet even in a group that is known for innovation,
culture can push leaders to fall back on ingrained preferences.
Jeannie L. Johnson takes a sympathetic but critical look at the
Marine Corps’s long experience with counterinsurgency warfare.
Which counterinsurgency lessons have been learned and retained for
next time and which have been abandoned to history is a story of
battlefield trial and error--but also a story of cultural
collisions. The book begins with a fascinating and penetrating look
inside the culture of the Marine Corps through research in primary
sources, including Marine oral histories, and interviews with
Marines. Johnson explores what makes this branch of the military
distinct: their identity, norms, values, and perceptual lens. She
then traces the history of the Marines’ counterinsurgency
experience from the expeditionary missions of the early twentieth
century, through the Vietnam War, and finally to the Iraq War. Her
findings break new ground in strategic culture by introducing a
methodology that was pioneered in the intelligence community to
forecast behavior. Johnson shows that even a service as self-aware
and dedicated to innovation as the Marine Corps is constrained in
the lessons-learned process by its own internal predispositions, by
the wider US military culture, and by national preferences. Her
findings challenge the conclusions of previous counterinsurgency
scholarship that ignores culture. This highly readable book reminds
us of Sun Tzu’s wisdom that to be successful in war, it is
important to know thyself as well as the enemy. This is a must-read
for anyone interested in the Marines Corps, counterinsurgency
warfare, military innovation, or strategic culture.
The United States Marine Corps has a unique culture that ensures
comradery, exacting standards, and readiness to be the first to
every fight. Yet even in a group that is known for innovation,
culture can push leaders to fall back on ingrained preferences.
Jeannie L. Johnson takes a sympathetic but critical look at the
Marine Corps's long experience with counterinsurgency warfare.
Which counterinsurgency lessons have been learned and retained for
next time and which have been abandoned to history is a story of
battlefield trial and error--but also a story of cultural
collisions. The book begins with a fascinating and penetrating look
inside the culture of the Marine Corps through research in primary
sources, including Marine oral histories, and interviews with
Marines. Johnson explores what makes this branch of the military
distinct: their identity, norms, values, and perceptual lens. She
then traces the history of the Marines' counterinsurgency
experience from the expeditionary missions of the early twentieth
century, through the Vietnam War, and finally to the Iraq War. Her
findings break new ground in strategic culture by introducing a
methodology that was pioneered in the intelligence community to
forecast behavior. Johnson shows that even a service as self-aware
and dedicated to innovation as the Marine Corps is constrained in
the lessons-learned process by its own internal predispositions, by
the wider US military culture, and by national preferences. Her
findings challenge the conclusions of previous counterinsurgency
scholarship that ignores culture. This highly readable book reminds
us of Sun Tzu's wisdom that to be successful in war, it is
important to know thyself as well as the enemy. This is a must-read
for anyone interested in the Marines Corps, counterinsurgency
warfare, military innovation, or strategic culture.
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