Command : the politics of military operations from Korea to Ukraine
Freedman, Lawrence2023
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Throughout history, the concept of command - as both a way to achieve objectives and as an assertion of authority - has been essential to military action and leadership. But, as Sir Lawrence Freedman shows, it is also deeply political. Military command has been reconstructed and revolutionized since the Second World War by nuclear warfare, small-scale guerrilla land operations and cyber interference. Freedman takes a global perspective, systematically investigating its practice and politics since 1945 through a wide range of conflicts from the French Colonial Wars, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bangladesh Liberation War to North Vietnam's Easter Offensive of 1972, the Falklands War, the Iraq War and Russia's wars in Chechnya and Ukraine.
Main title:
Command : the politics of military operations from Korea to Ukraine / Lawrence Freedman.
Author:
Freedman, Lawrence, author
Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2023.
Collation:
608 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9780141993515 (pbk)
Dewey class:
355.33041355.33
LC class:
UB210
Local class:
355.33041
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3484775
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