Title: Military strategy as public discourse :
Authors: Sholtis, Tadd.
Date: 2014
Publisher: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group,
Physical description: xiv, 212 pages ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC class: U
Contents: 1. Introduction: military strategy as public discourse -- 2. Prolonged indecision, not victory: fundamentals of strategic discourse -- 3. Boxed in: policy discussions of US strategy in Afghanistan, 2009 -- 4. Counterinsurgency redux: doctrine as public discourse -- 5. Victims and villians: conflicting identities in Afghanistan's war stories -- 6. Tell me how this ends: achieving public discourse on military strategy -- 7. Conclusion: authority without compulsion.