Bibliograph

Command, the politics of military operations from Korea to Ukraine, Lawrence Freedman

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Command, the politics of military operations from Korea to Ukraine, Lawrence Freedman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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illustrationsplatesmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Command

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Lawrence Freedman

Sub title

the politics of military operations from Korea to Ukraine

Summary

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

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