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What Should the U.S. Army Learn From History? - Determining the Strategy of the Future through Understanding the Past: Parallels in Military Strategy
This monograph examines the potential utility of history as a source of education and possible guidance for the U.S. Army. The author considers the worth in the claim that since history (more accurately termed the past) is all done and gone, it can have no value for today as we try to look forward. This point of view did not find much favor here. The monograph argues that although history does not repeat itself in detail, it certainly does so roughly in parallel circumstances. Of course, much detail differs from one historical case to another, but nonetheless, there are commonly broad and possibly instructive parallels that can be drawn from virtually every period of history, concerning most circumstances. Should the U.S. Army Learn From History? Understanding the A Foreign Country? Persisting Concerns and Enduring Hazards A Familiar Past? Parallels and Analogies What Changes and What Does Not? What Can the U.S. Army Learn From History? Recommendations for the U.S. Army
72 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 19, 2017
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Colin S. Gray
90 books73 followersColin S. Gray was a British-American strategic thinker and professor of International Relations and Strategic Studies at the University of Reading, where he was the director of the Centre for Strategic Studies. In addition, he was a Senior Associate to the National Institute for Public Policy.
Gray was educated at the University of Manchester and the University of Oxford. He worked at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Hudson Institute, before founding the National Institute for Public Policy in Washington, D.C. He also served as a defense adviser both to the British and U.S. governments. Gray served from 1982 until 1987 in the Reagan Administration's General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament. Furthermore, he taught at the University of Hull, the University of Lancaster, York University, Toronto and University of British Columbia. Gray published 23 books on military history and strategic studies, as well as numerous articles.
Gray was educated at the University of Manchester and the University of Oxford. He worked at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Hudson Institute, before founding the National Institute for Public Policy in Washington, D.C. He also served as a defense adviser both to the British and U.S. governments. Gray served from 1982 until 1987 in the Reagan Administration's General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament. Furthermore, he taught at the University of Hull, the University of Lancaster, York University, Toronto and University of British Columbia. Gray published 23 books on military history and strategic studies, as well as numerous articles.
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The American soldier has a lot to learn from history. This book provides a short discussion on some of those lessons. War is said to be politics by other means. The American Way is said for the Army to remain apolitical. Soldiers walk a fine line here in order to successfully accomplish their is while supporting their political leaders. All soldiers should read this book, though the prose is a bit academic and sometimes difficult to follow upon a first reading. Give it time; you will come to understand.
The American soldier has a lot to learn from history. This book provides a short discussion on some of those lessons. War is said to be politics by other means. The American Way is said for the Army to remain apolitical. Soldiers walk a fine line here in order to successfully accomplish their is while supporting their political leaders. All soldiers should read this book, though the prose is a bit academic and sometimes difficult to follow upon a first reading. Give it time; you will come to understand.
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