Defense planning for national security

The challenge that is defense planning includes: "educated futurology" and the humanities as methodological approaches; futurists and scenarios, trend spotting and defense analysis; the impossibility of science in studying the future; the impossibility of verification by empirical testing of hypotheses; the value of the humanities which are politics, strategy, and history for defense planning; the use and misuse of analogy; learning from history; why and how strategic history works; and recommendations for the Army. What can be learned from history and what cannot are discussed in this analysis.

Year

2014

Language

English

Series

Advancing strategic thought series

Publisher

Strategic Studies Institute and U.S. Army War College Press

Editions

1

Pages

59

ISBN

9781584876090

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