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Auteur(s) : Lissner, Rebecca  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : Wars of revelation [Texte imprimé] : the transformative effects of military intervention on grand strategy / Rebecca Lissner

Publication : New York : Oxford university press, copyright 2021

Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-225 pages) ; 25 cm

Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Index
"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"

Sujet(s) : Stratégie  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Intervention (droit international)  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Politique militaire -- États-Unis  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Genre ou forme : Études de cas  Voir les notices liées en tant que genre ou forme

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780197583180. - ISBN 0197583180. - ISBN 9780197583197. - ISBN 0197583199. - ISBN 9780197583210 (erroné). - ISBN 9780197583203 (erroné). - ISBN 9780197583227 (erroné)

Identifiant de la notice  : ark:/12148/cb47101919r

Notice n° :  FRBNF47101919 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)

Table des matières : The transformative effects of military intervention on grand strategy ; "An entirely new war" : the Korean War and the realization of containment ; "A transformation in the nature of power" : finding the limits of containment in Vietnam ; "Beyond containment" : the Persian Gulf War and U.S. grand strategy at the dawn of the new world order ; Conclusion: War and grand strategy in the age of American hegemony.