Perhaps we've come down to whither doctrine.
Were the historical doctrine examples we've noted, beginning with Gentile's, trailing indicators or leading indicators of battlefield chalenges the...
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Perhaps we've come down to whither doctrine.
Were the historical doctrine examples we've noted, beginning with Gentile's, trailing indicators or leading indicators of battlefield chalenges the...
COIN discussion
An American military historian now working in Australia wrote of the British Army in WWI that they had an ethos rather than a doctrine: embedded behaviors from the collective memory of the...
Selective Use of History
Gentile himself uses history selectively to beat the too-much-COIN drum. One common theme rooted in history that influenced the French in their wars to preserve their fading empire and the US in...
Bernard Fall
While researching my dissertation (SF in Vietnam, 1961-1963, as an innovation study), I found Bernard Fall's papers had been just sent to the JFK Presidential Library (Boston) in 1998. An unpaid...