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Author:Ken Booth
Ken Booth’s study, first published in 1979, investigates the way in which cultural distortions have affected the theory and execution of strategy. Its aim is to illustrate the importance of ethnocentrism in all areas of the subject, to follow through its implications and to suggest approaches to the different problems it poses. Insights are offered into the character of a number of important issues in Cold War international politics, including the superpower arms race, détente, the Middle Eastern crisis, the Soviet arms build-up and the SALT talks. In light of the cost of modern warfare, it is all the more important to avoid strategic failures in the future. Strategy and Ethnocentrism aims to alert students of military and strategic studies to some ways of minimising the risks of failure in an age when war is increasingly characterised by racial, cultural and religious conflict.
Strategy and Ethnocentrism 1stTable of contents:
1. Concepts and Propositions
Concepts
Propositions
2. The Strategic Paradigm
The Assumptions of an Ethnocentric Profession
Strategists and Enemy Images
Professional Predispositions
3. Failures in Strategy
Strategic History
US and Soviet Strategic Doctrines
The Superpower Arms Race
Detente: or Peace and Ill-Will
Arabs, Jews and Outsiders
Allies: Know Your Friends
Crises: Signalling without Signal Books
4. Problems in Strategic Theorising
Rationality: Know His Culture
Strategic Criteria: Comparison is Obligatory
War is a Continuation of … What?
Conceptions of the Utility of Force
Word Problems Can Be World Problems
International Negotiation: Words as Action
5. Military Efficiency Versus Political Purpose
Force and the Utility of Ethnocentrism
Authoritarianism and Ethnocentrism
Knowing the Enemy
Diplomacy and the Disutility of Ethnocentrism
6. Threat Assessment
The Narrow Strategist’s Syllogism
Capabilities Versus Intentions
Worst-Case Forecasting
The Level-of-Analysis Problem
The Irreducible Dilemma
Victory is Not Success
7. Strategy With a Human Face
The Inertia of an Ethnocentric Profession
The Demise of Strategic Man
Towards Strategic Relativism
Self-Awareness in Policy Processes
The Greening of Academic Strategists
8. Strategic Thinking and Security in a Liberal Society
Sentiment and Security
Pseudocorollaries and Indecision
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