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How do military organizations assess strategic policy in war? In this book Scott Gartner develops a theory to explain how military and government leaders evaluate wartime performance, how much they change strategies in response to this evaluation, and why they are frequently at odds when discussing the success or failure of strategic performance.Blending history, decision theory, and mathematical modeling, Gartner argues that military personnel do reevaluate their strategies and that they measure the performance of a strategy through quantitative, "dominant" indicators. But different actors within a government use different indicators of success: some will see the strategy as succeeding when others see it as failing because of their different dominant indicators. Gartner tests his argument with three case studies: the British shift to convoys in World War I following the German imposition of unrestricted submarine warfare; the lack of change in British naval policy in the Battle of the Atlantic following the German introduction of Wolf Packs in World War II; and the American decision to deescalate in Vietnam after the Tet Offensive. He also tests his approach in a nonwar situation, analyzing the Carter Administration's decision to launch the hostage rescue attempt. In each case, his dominant indicator model better predicts the observed behavior than either a standard-organization or an action-reaction approach.

Strategy --- War --- Military & Naval Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- Military Science - General --- Military strategy --- Military art and science --- Military doctrine --- Armed conflict (War) --- Conflict, Armed (War) --- Fighting --- Hostilities --- Wars --- International relations --- Decision making

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The Puritans condemned war profiteering as a ""Provoking Evil,"" George Washington feared that it would ruin the Revolution, and Franklin D. Roosevelt promised many times that he would never permit the rise of another crop of ""war millionaires."" Yet on every occasion that American soldiers and sailors served and sacrificed in the field and on the sea, other Americans cheerfully enhanced their personal wealth by exploiting every opportunity that wartime circumstances presented.In Warhogs, Stuart D. Brandes masterfully blends intellectual, economic, and military history into a fascinating dis

Profiteering --- War --- Anti-profiteering --- Excess profits --- Prices --- Profit --- War, Cost of --- Excess profits tax --- Armed conflict (War) --- Conflict, Armed (War) --- Fighting --- Hostilities --- Wars --- International relations --- Military art and science --- Peace --- History. --- Economic aspects --- #SBIB:012.AANKOOP --- #SBIB:327.5H21 --- #SBIB:328H31 --- #SBIB:97G --- History --- Economic aspects&delete& --- Vrede – oorlog, oorlogssituaties --- Instellingen en beleid: VSA / USA --- Geschiedenis van Noord-Amerika

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Shows how we can predict the start of wars by measuring government efforts to secure public support.

Polemology --- Mass communications --- Guerre et médias --- Indicateurs politiques --- Mass media and war --- Mass média dans la guerre --- Mass média et guerre --- Massamedia en oorlog --- Massamedia in de oorlog --- Médias et guerre --- Médias et guerres --- Political indicators --- Politieke indicatoren --- War in mass media --- War --- -War in mass media --- #SBIB:327.5H21 --- #SBIB:309H1016 --- #SBIB:309H271 --- #SBIB:AANKOOP --- Mass media --- Armed conflict (War) --- Conflict, Armed (War) --- Fighting --- Hostilities --- Wars --- International relations --- Military art and science --- Peace --- Indicators, Political --- Political statistics --- War and mass media --- Forecasting --- Vrede – oorlog, oorlogssituaties --- Media: socio-culturele aspecten (massamedia en maatschappij, met inbegrip van cultuurhistorische werken en werken over de maatschappelijke en politieke effecten van de (diverse) media) --- Politieke communicatie: toepassingsgebieden --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS --- Business Ethics --- Military Science - General --- Military & Naval Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- Mass media and war. --- Political indicators. --- War in mass media. --- Forecasting. --- War - Forecasting.