A history of the American military command structure, this book analyzes the tension between the joint teamwork demanded by modern combat and the traditions of service autonomy reinforced by competing ideas about land, sea and air warfare.
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In broad and largely abstract terms, Allard defines the characteristics of the American military structure--its traditions, history and organization--as they affect the evolution of high-level command and control in the "information age." He analyzes the conflicting pressures faced by the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines in modernizing command and control structures to accommodate electronic warfare, precision-guided munitions and combat intelligence. This sweeping study will interest defense specialists and informed students despite its lack of focus and think-tank/Pentagonese prose ("A general strategic paradigm must clearly be capable of unifying perspective of the operational environments"). The author, an Army lieutenant colonel, is a special assistant to the Army chief of staff.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Interservice Rivalry and DoD Decisionmaking,
By Jackson Pollack "Chris" (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Command, Control, and the Common Defense (Hardcover)
Ken Allard provides an insightful analysis of the warfighting philosophies underlying each of the military services and the different priorities which result. A former U.S. Army Colonel and a professor at Georgetown University, Allard provides a superlative look at the influence of Mahan, Clausewitz and Mitchell and their impact on the priorites, strategies and budgets of the navy, army and air force. Oftentimes, these diferences are the root of interservice rivalries and divergent decsionmaking. Allard's framework provides great explanatory power in understanding military missteps and decisionmaking in many instances such as the Iran hostage rescue attempt, the invasion of Grenada and the first attempt to build a joint services fighter. He argues that one effective way to mitigate the ill effects of interservice differences is mandatory joint duty for officers and giving operational and weapons procurement decisionmaking to joint commands instead of individual services. A must read for those in the defense community.
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