Christopher P. Twomey's The Military Lens: Doctrinal Difference and Deterrence PDF

By Christopher P. Twomey

ISBN-10: 0801449146

ISBN-13: 9780801449147

within the army Lens, Christopher P. Twomey indicates how differing army doctrines have ended in misperceptions among the U.S. and China over overseas policy—and the capability hazards those may well pose in destiny kinfolk. due to their various strategic occasions, histories, and armed forces cultures, countries could have notably disparate definitions of potent army doctrine, process, and features. Twomey argues that after such doctrines—or "theories of victory"—differ throughout states, misperceptions a few rival's features and intentions and fake optimism approximately one's personal usually tend to take place. In flip, those can abate overseas international relations and statecraft by means of making it more challenging to speak and agree on checks of the stability of energy. while states have interaction in strategic coercion—either to discourage or to compel action—such difficulties can result in escalation and conflict. Twomey assesses a wide range of assets in either the U.S. and China on army doctrine, strategic tradition, misperception, and deterrence concept to construct case experiences of makes an attempt at strategic coercion in the course of Sino-American conflicts in Korea and the Taiwan Strait within the early years of the chilly warfare, in addition to an exam of comparable matters within the Arab-Israeli clash. After demonstrating how those components have contributed to previous conflicts, Twomey amply records the endurance of unsafe miscommunication in modern Sino-American family members. His targeted analytic point of view on army strength means that policymakers have to rigorously contemplate the army doctrine of the countries they are attempting to influence.

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