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By Barry R. Posen
Barry R. Posen explores how army doctrine takes form and the function it performs in grand strategy―that choice of army, fiscal, and political ability and ends with which a nation makes an attempt to accomplish defense. Posen isolates 3 an important components of a given strategic doctrine: its offensive, protecting, or deterrent features, its integration of army assets with political goals, and the measure of army or operational innovation it comprises. He then examines those elements of doctrine from the views of association thought and stability of strength idea, making an allowance for the effect of know-how and geography.
Looking at interwar France, Britain, and Germany, Posen demanding situations each one thought to give an explanation for the German Blitzkrieg, the British air protection approach, and the French Army's protective doctrine frequently linked to the Maginot Line. This rigorous comparative examine, within which the stability of energy concept emerges because the extra valuable, now not only
allows us to find very important implications for the learn of nationwide approach this day, but in addition serves to sharpen our figuring out of the origins of worldwide battle II.
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Organizations do what they can to minimize environmental interference that might disrupt their normal routine s . 19 Broadly, there are two sorts of strategies used by organizations to reduce their dependence on the environment-material and political . Material strategies aim to bring uncertainties under the direct control of the organization . Organizations stockpile or warehouse, make a fetish of scheduling, and industriously gather all the information they can on possible changes in the supply of what they need or the demand for what they do.
Addi tionally, the two theories can be used to generate new hypotheses which can be tested against state behavior during this period. Be cause of the nature of the theories, valid comparisons can be made of different states across time and space. Lessons derived from such comparisons should be valid for many years to come, and should allow some rough predictions about the future. Both of the theories under consideration are of the same type- structural theories. Such theories attempt to abstract from a particular political system the unique characteristics of its constituent parts and the interactions among those parts.
Both of the theories under consideration are of the same type- structural theories. Such theories attempt to abstract from a particular political system the unique characteristics of its constituent parts and the interactions among those parts. As Kenneth Waltz puts it, the object is to discover the "arrangement" of a system's parts and the "principle of that arrangement. "2 To put it another way, such theo ries are inspired by the desire to discover what makes a system a system, what holds it together and causes it to behave in charac teristic ways.