83 records matched your query       

Title:

Imponderable but not inevitable : warfare in the 20th century / Malcolm H. Murfett, editor.

Publisher:

Praeger,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xx, 203 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Military history, Modern--20th century
Naval history, Modern--20th century
Military art and science--History--20th century.
Naval art and science--History--20th century.
Military policy--History--20th century.
Strategy--History--20th century.
Uncertainty--History--History--20th century.

Other Authors:

Murfett, Malcolm H.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Preface / Malcolm H. Murfett -- Casting doubt on the inevitability syndrome / Malcolm H. Murfett -- The unknown and the unknowable : the loss of HMAS Sydney / Peter J. Dennis -- The madness of General George / Daniel K.R. Crosswell -- What do they want, and how can we respond? : Commonwealth intelligence and confrontation with Indonesia, 1963 / Brian P. Farrell -- Air power finds its ascendancy, at last / Christopher Clark -- Three of a kind? Fisher, Rickover, and Gorshkov and the management of naval change / Geoffrey Till -- Measuring defeat : imponderables of the American experience in Vietnam / Ronald Spector -- What's luck got to do with it? : Random elements that affected the naval campaigns of 1939-1945 / Malcolm H. Murfett.

ISBN:

0313378835 (ebook)
9780313378836 (ebook)
0313378827 (hard copy : alk. paper)
9780313378829 (hard copy : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)422756999

LCCN:

2009029584

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)