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Wraps. Zustand: Good. vi, 133, [5] pages. Footnotes. Some passages are marked and/or underlined. This is McNair Paper Number 52. Examines the question of whether Clausewitzian friction would succumb to the changes in leading-edge warfare that may lie ahead, or whether such impediments reflect more enduring aspects of war that technology can only affect marginally. Clausewitzian friction refers to the theory by Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) that reality exerts a kind of friction on ideas and intentions in war. This term is commonly associated with the diverse difficulties and impediments to the effective use of military force. Barry D. Watts was a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, where he specialized in air power issues, Air Force transformation, and the military use of space. From 2001 to 2002, Watts headed the Office of Program Analysis and Evaluation in the Department of Defense. Previously, he directed the Northrop Grumman Analysis Center, where he had served after retiring from the Air Force with the rank of lieutenant colonel. From 1991 to 1993, Watts headed a study of operations and effectiveness as part of the Gulf War Air Power Survey. His publications include The Foundations of U.S. Air Doctrine: The Problem of Friction in War (Air University Press, 1984) and The Military Use of Space: A Diagnostic Assessment (Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, 2001). The original version of this paper, completed in December 1995, was condensed by Williamson Murray, editor of Brassey's Mershon American Defense Annual, for the 1996-1997 edition. This condensation did not include three entire sections that are part of this present study (chapter 3 on Scharnhorst's influence, chapter 6 on strategic surprise, and chapter 9, which contained air combat data bearing on friction's role in future war). Dr. Murray also cut significant parts of other sections, especially in chapter 10, and precipitated a fair amount of rewriting as he and I worked toward a version that met his length constraint but still reflected the essence of the original essay. While this process led to many textual improvements, it did not generate any substantive changes. The impetus for substantive changes came from Alan Beyerchen, of the Ohio State University, in May 1996. Dr. Beyerchen, a formidable student of both Clausewitz and nonlinear dynamics, raised an important issue concerning possible measures of general friction that harked back to Andy Marshall's query, in late 1995, as to whether the "magnitude" of general friction has been declining in recent decades. After much discussion back and forth, I added several pages of new material in chapters 5 and 9 that introduced decision-cycle times and viable option sets in "possibility space" as candidate measures. These additions prompted others, primarily in chapter 10. Besides expanding and improving the treatment of nonlinearity, the discussion of chance was thoroughly revised in light of Poincare's 1903 essay on the same subject, again after much discussion with Beyerchen. By the time these changes had been completed, the condensation of the original essay for Brassey's Mershon American Defense Annual was far enough along that the best I could do was to make its text consistent with the post-Beyerchen version. There was no room to incorporate substantive changes. Thus, the present text restores most of the original and goes a step beyond it conceptually; this is one reason why the Director of the NDU Press, Dr. Frederick Kiley, elected to go ahead with separate publication of the complete essay. Dr. Kiley and I then decided to modify the title of this longer version, to make it distinguishable from a reference standpoint. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus.…

Wraps. Zustand: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. [4], 73, [1] pages. Footnotes. Small tears to lower spine. While President Obama has made it a priority to change the U.S. nuclear posture and reduce the number and role of nuclear weapons in our national security strategy, other countries have not followed his lead. The leaders of most nuclear states and states with nuclear aspirations perceive nuclear arms to be of enduring value in meeting their security needs. The world is already well into a second nuclear age in which the bomb is proliferating for reasons very different from those of the strategic nuclear competition between the United States and the USSR during the Cold War. What are the implications of this divergence in views? This study offers insights into the motivations of countries to acquire nuclear weapons, and how those countries view the role of nuclear weapons in their military and national security strategy. Barry D. Watts is senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, "where he concentrates on net assessments, airpower and the emergence of guided munitions, transformation, and the military use of space." He is the author of "The Military Use of Space: A Diagnostic Assessment" (2001); "Meeting the Anti-Access and Anti-Access Challenge" (2003) with Andrew Krepinevich and Robert Work; and "Long Range Strike: Imperatives, Urgency and Operations" (2005) published by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. Watts is a "former director of the Northrop Grumman Analysis Center and now [2001] the director of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Program Analysis and Evaluation. [He] has written an assessment of military competition in near-earth space and how that competition may evolve over the next twenty-five years. Aside from the importance of its subject, [Watt's] book is of particular interest because it explicitly attempts a "net assessment." Watts worked for Andrew Marshall, director of the OSD Office of Net Assessment (ONA) from its establishment in 1973." Watts took office in May 2001 as Director of Program Analysis and Evaluation in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. "Prior to his new position, Watts had been the director of the Northrop Grumman Analysis Center in Arlington, Va., his employer since 1986. His duties included analysis of military capabilities, strategy and operational doctrine. From 1991 to 1993, he headed the Gulf War Air Power Survey's work on operations and effectiveness. "Previously, Watts served as an officer in the U.S. Air Force, retiring in 1986. His military career included an F-4 combat tour in Southeast Asia with the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing, subsequent assignments in Japan and Okinawa as an F-4 Wild Weasel aircraft commander, and an instructional assignment, teaching philosophy and mathematical logic, at the U.S. Air Force Academy. During his military career, he also served in the Office of Net Assessment, working on Korean and NATO-Warsaw Pact balance assessments, and in the Air Staff's Project Checkmate as a Soviet threat specialist. "Watts' published writings span such topics as air-to-air combat tactics, measures of effectiveness, and coalition air power in the 1991 Persian Gulf War, among other subjects. He recently completed an assessment of military competition in near-earth space for the Center for Budgetary and Strategic Assessments (February 2001). "The new director is a 1965 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy with a bachelor's degree in mathematics; he also holds a master's in philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh (1974). "The Office of Program Analysis and Evaluation advises the secretary and deputy secretary of Defense about the relationship of defense programs and budgets to U.S. defense objectives, projected threats, allied contributions, estimated costs and resource constraints." In 1984, Lt. Col. Barry D. Watts was "Red Team Chief for Project Checkmate at Headquarters USAF.".…

Wraps. Zustand: Very good. Presumed first edition/first printing. [4], 73, [1] p. Footnotes. From an on-line posting: "Mr. Watts is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments where he focuses on net assessment, airpower and the emergence of guided munitions, Air Force transformation, and the military use of space. From May 2001 June 2002, he was the Director of Program Analysis and Evaluation in the Office of the Secretary of Defense at the Defense Department. Mr. Watts has also held the position of Director of Northrop Grumman Analysis Center at Northrop Grumman. He is the author of several CSBA publications among others.".…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Andrew Marshall is a Pentagon legend. For more than four decades he has served as Director of the Office of Net Assessment, the Pentagon's internal think tank, under twelve defense secretaries and eight administrations. Yet Marshall has been on the cutting edge of strategic thinking even longer than that. At the RAND Corporation during its golden age in the 1950s and early 1960s, Marshall helped formulate bedrock concepts of US nuclear strategy that endure to this day; later, at the Pentagon, he pioneered the development of 'net assessment' -- a new analytic framework for understanding the long-term military competition between the United States and the Soviet Union. Following the Cold War, Marshall successfully used net assessment to anticipate emerging disruptive shifts in military affairs, including the revolution in precision warfare and the rise of China as a major strategic rival of the United States. In The Last Warrior, Andrew Krepinevich and Barry Watts -- both former members of Marshall's staff -- trace Marshall's intellectual development from his upbringing in Detroit during the Great Depression to his decades in Washington as an influential behind-the-scenes advisor on American defense strategy. The result is a unique insider's perspective on the changes in US strategy from the dawn of the Cold War to the present day. Covering some of the most pivotal episodes of the last half-century and peopled with some of the era's most influential figures, The Last Warrior tells Marshall's story for the first time, in the process providing an unparalleled history of the evolution of the American defense establishment.…

Zustand: New. For readers of Tim Weiner s Legacy of Ashes and Henry Crumpton s The Art of Intelligence, the first ever biography of Andrew Marshall, the legendary (and reclusive) Pentagon strategist who has served under every president from Nixon to Obama.&Uumlb.

Zustand: very good. Reprint Edition. 24 cm, 166, wraps, illus., notes, selected bibliography, index, name of previous owner printed on bottom near spine. Reprint of the edition originally published in 1984.

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Zustand: very good. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 133, wraps, footnotes. McNair Paper 52. Since the end of the U.S. -Soviet Cold War, there has been growing discussion of the possibility that technological advances in the means of combat would produce fundamental changes in how future wars will be fought.…