Command
the politics of military operations from Korea to Ukraine
- ISBN: 9780141993515
- Editorial: Penguin Books
- Fecha de la edición: 2023
- Lugar de la edición: London. Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 20 cm
- Nº Pág.: 608
- Idiomas: Inglés
A timely history of the interplay between politics and military operations, 'Command is the history of our time' (Guardian)
Military command has been reconstructed and revolutionized since the Second World War by nuclear warfare, small-scale guerrilla land operations and cyber interference. Freedman takes a global perspective, systematically investigating its practice and politics since 1945 through a wide range of conflicts from the French Colonial Wars, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bangladesh Liberation War to North Vietnam's Easter Offensive of 1972, the Falklands War, the Iraq War and Russia's wars in Chechnya and Ukraine. By highlighting the political nature of strategy, Freedman shows that military decision-making cannot be separated from civilian priorities and that commanders must now have the sensibility to navigate politics as well as warfare.
Command as politics
Supreme commander : Truman and MacArthur
The fury of the legions : the French army in Indochina and Algeria
Keeping control : the Cuban missile crisis
The very model of insubordination : Ariel Sharon and Israel's wars
Civil war : the surrender of East Pakistan
Orders from on high : responses to North Vietnam's 1972 offensive
Command in theatre : the Falklands campaign
Dictator as supreme commander : Saddam Hussein
Command in a fragile state : Guevara, Kabila and the Congo
Command in a faltering state : the Russian invasion of Chechnya
Too many cooks : Kosovo in 1999
From hybrid conflict to all-out war : Russia fights Ukraine
The war on terror : the battle of Tora Bora
A tale of two surges : Iraq 2006-7
War among the people : fighting the Taliban and Isis
Past, present and future of command
