Categorical confusion? : (Record no. 77264)
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| control field | 13414650 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
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| 005 - DATE AND TIME | |
| control field | 20120809144748.0 |
| 008 - GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 120514s2012 pau | f000 0 eng c |
| 020 ## - ISBN | |
| ISBN | 1584875208 |
| 020 ## - ISBN | |
| ISBN | 9781584875208 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGUING LIBRARY | |
| Original cataloging library | AWC |
| Modifying library | AWC |
| -- | AFQ |
| -- | OSU |
| -- | UtOrBLW |
| -- | Sipr |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code | eng |
| 100 1# - AUTHOR | |
| Personal name | Gray, Colin S. |
| 245 10 - TITLE | |
| Title | Categorical confusion? : |
| Subtitle | the strategic implications of recognizing challenges either as irregular or traditional / |
| Author, etc | Colin S. Gray. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION DATA | |
| Place of publication | Carlisle, PA : |
| Publisher | Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, |
| Year | 2012 |
| 300 ## - PAGES ETC | |
| Pages | ix, 59 p. ; |
| Dimensions | 23 cm. |
| 490 1# - SERIES TITLE | |
| Series title | Strategic Studies Institute monograph |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | "February 2012." |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| About the authors | Includes bibliographical references (p. 50-59) |
| 505 0# - CONTENTS | |
| Contents | Introduction and argument -- What is the problem? -- Challenges : not a simple spectrum -- Preventing and avoiding categorical confusion : how can strategic theory help? -- Conclusions and recommendations. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY | |
| Summary, etc | Strategic theory should educate to enable effective strategic practice, but much of contemporary theory promotes confusion, not clarity, of suitable understanding. A little strategic theory goes a long way, at least it does if it is austere and focused on essentials. Unfortunately, contemporary strategic conceptualization in the U.S. defense community is prolix, over-elaborate, and it confuses rather than clarifies. Recent debate about irregular, as contrasted allegedly with traditional, challenges to U.S. national security have done more harm than good. Conceptualization of and for an operational level of war can imperil the truly vital nexus between strategy and tactics. In much the same way, the invention of purportedly distinctive categories of challenge endangers the relationship between general theory for statecraft, war, and strategy, and strategic and tactical practice for particular historical cases. It is not helpful to sort challenges into supposedly distinctive categories. But, if such categorization proves politically or bureaucratically unavoidable, its potential for harm can be reduced by firm insistence upon the authority of the general theory of strategy. |
| 650 #7 - KEYWORD | |
| Keyword | military strategy |
| Subdivision | strategy |
| Geographic subdivision | USA |
| 651 #7 - KEYWORD/GEOGRAPHIC | |
| Geographic keyword | USA |
| Subdivision | national security |
| 710 2# - ADDED INSTITUTION | |
| Institution | US Army War College. |
| Subordinate unit | Strategic Studies Institute, SSI |
| 830 #0 - AUTHORIZED SERIES TITLE | |
| Authorized title | SSI monograph. |
| 852 ## - LOCATION | |
| Classification part | 355 Gray |
| 856 41 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION | |
| URI | http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=1098 |
| 942 ## - ITEM TYPE (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | monograph |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Acquisition no. | Date last seen | Koha item type |
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| SIPRI Library and Documentation | SIPRI Library and Documentation | 2012-05-23 | 355 Gray | G12/317 | 2012-05-23 | monograph |