The Challenge of Adaptation: The US Army in the Aftermath of Conflict, 1953-2000

by U.S. Army Combined Arms Center

In his foreword to Roberta Wohlstetter's Bancroft prize-winning book Pearl Harbor (1962), Thomas Schelling addressed the problem faced by a government in foreseeing and anticipating future contingencies. For Schelling, Wohlstetter had demonstrated that the failure of the US government was not in its provision of sufficient warning of the coming attack, but in a culture of strategic analysis which was preoccupied with what the Japanese would obviously...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503040542
• ISBN13: 9781503040540
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"