Imponderable but not inevitable
Subtitle: warfare in the 20th century
By: Malcolm H. Murfett, editor.
Contributors: Murfett, Malcolm H.
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780313378829; 9780313378836
Subjects: 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 -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-186) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Malcolm H. Murfett; title: Black swans make a mockery of the inevitability factor / Malcolm H. Murfett; title: The unknown and the unknowable : the loss of HMAS Sydney / Peter J. Dennis; title: The madness of General George / Daniel K.R. Crosswell; title: What do they want and how can we respond? : Commonwealth intelligence and confrontation with Indonesia, 1963 / Brian P. Farrell; title: Air power finds its ascendancy at last / Christopher Clark; title: Of a kind? Fisher, Rickover, & Gorshkov and the management of naval change / Geoffrey Till; title: Measuring defeat : imponderables of the American experience in Vietnam / Ronald Spector; title: What's luck got to do with it? : random elements that affected the naval campaigns of 1939-45 / Malcolm H. Murfett.