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200 1. $a Wars of revelation $b Texte imprimé $e the transformative effects of military intervention on grand strategy $f Rebecca Lissner
214 .0 $a New York $c Oxford university press
214 .4 $d C 2021
215 .. $a 1 vol. (XII-225 pages) $d 25 cm
300 .. $a Notes bibliogr. Index
330 .. $a "More than seventy-five years since the end of World War II, military interventions
- rather than major wars - have emerged as a defining feature of contemporary geopolitics.
Yet, for all the fierce policy debates over interventions and their lessons, scholars
have largely ignored the systematic linkages between these smaller-scale wars and
transformations in the grand strategies of states that prosecute them. Wars of Revelation
develops a new theory - the informational theory of strategic adjustment - to explain
why military interventions can be crucibles of grand strategy. It argues that, by
prosecuting a military intervention, states glean rich and rare information about
adversaries' capabilities and intentions, as well as their own military power and
cost tolerance. The uniquely costly nature of warfighting renders this data particularly
credible. Amidst background conditions of intense interstate competition and pervasive
uncertainty, states face strong incentives to reassess their grand strategies in light
of this new information. This process of grand-strategic updating begins with a reassessment
of the strategic assumptions directly tested on the battlefield, but it doesn't end
there. Indeed, the grand strategic effects of military interventions are far-reaching
because information conveyed via warfighting is widely extrapolated to related strategic
assessments. Wars of Revelation demonstrates the plausibility of the informational
theory of strategic adjustment in three historically detailed case studies that trace
the evolution of American grand strategy over the course of the Cold War and into
the early post-Cold War era: the Korean, Vietnam, and First Gulf Wars"
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930 .. $5 FR-751131008:47101919001001 $a 2022-215700 $b 759999999 $c Tolbiac - Rez de Jardin - Droit, économie, politique - Magasin $d O
