Overview

Full Product Details

9781604979473

Table of Contents

Reviews

In Military Strategy for the 21st Century: People, Connectivity, and Influence, four authors who have devoted their careers to the security of the United States share their thoughts about the evolving character of war in an increasingly interconnected, networked world--and suggest innovations that will make us safer and more capable. Highly recommended. --John Nagl, author of Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife and Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War In Military Strategy for the 21st Century, Army veterans and scholars offer a fresh approach to strategic and operational art rooted in increased connectivity and mastery of a new domain of competition--the critical human domain. A unique blend of experience and reflection, highly recommended to anyone interested in being successful in 21st-century conflict. --F. G. Hoffman, author of Mars Adapting: Learning in War

"""As the authors explain, if we had taken this network analysis approach used for targeting the Taliban and applied it to our understanding of the relationship and dependencies between our partner governments, we would have been in a much better position to react to, and in some cases have been able to predict, many of the issues that became apparent. [...] Military Strategy in the 21st Century bridges a gap, taking the conceptual and sometimes impenetrable debate about the direction that Western forces should be heading, into a practical and logical assessment of what that could and probably should look like."" --Wavell Room: Contemporary British Military Thought ""In Military Strategy for the 21st Century: People, Connectivity, and Influence, four authors who have devoted their careers to the security of the United States share their thoughts about the evolving character of war in an increasingly interconnected, networked world--and suggest innovations that will make us safer and more capable. Highly recommended."" --John Nagl, author of Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife and Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War ""In Military Strategy for the 21st Century, Army veterans and scholars offer a fresh approach to strategic and operational art rooted in increased connectivity and mastery of a new domain of competition--the critical human domain. A unique blend of experience and reflection, highly recommended to anyone interested in being successful in 21st-century conflict."" --F. G. Hoffman, author of Mars Adapting: Learning in War"

As the authors explain, if we had taken this network analysis approach used for targeting the Taliban and applied it to our understanding of the relationship and dependencies between our partner governments, we would have been in a much better position to react to, and in some cases have been able to predict, many of the issues that became apparent. [...] Military Strategy in the 21st Century bridges a gap, taking the conceptual and sometimes impenetrable debate about the direction that Western forces should be heading, into a practical and logical assessment of what that could and probably should look like. --Wavell Room: Contemporary British Military Thought In Military Strategy for the 21st Century: People, Connectivity, and Influence, four authors who have devoted their careers to the security of the United States share their thoughts about the evolving character of war in an increasingly interconnected, networked world--and suggest innovations that will make us safer and more capable. Highly recommended. --John Nagl, author of Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife and Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War In Military Strategy for the 21st Century, Army veterans and scholars offer a fresh approach to strategic and operational art rooted in increased connectivity and mastery of a new domain of competition--the critical human domain. A unique blend of experience and reflection, highly recommended to anyone interested in being successful in 21st-century conflict. --F. G. Hoffman, author of Mars Adapting: Learning in War

Author Information

"Lieutenant General Charles Cleveland (U.S. Army, Retired) left active duty in 2015 as the Commanding General of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command. His ARSOF 2022 rejuvenated U.S. Army unconventional warfare capabilities and institutionalized the Human Domain as an organizing concept for Army SOF. He also commanded SOCCENT, SOCSOUTH, and the 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) and has operational experience in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Lebanon, Pakistan, Panama, El Salvador, and Bolivia, and began his career in Special Operations and Army intelligence units during the Cold War. Benjamin Jensen, PhD, holds a dual appointment as an associate professor at Marine Corps University and as a scholar-in-residence at American University, School of International Service. He is also a senior non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council. Dr. Jensen's previous publications including Forging the Sword: Doctrinal Change in the U.S. Army (Stanford University Press 2016) and, coauthored, Cyber Strategy: The Evolving Character of Power and Coercion (Oxford University Press 2018). He has published in several academic journals such as the Journal of Strategic Studies as well as major media outlets like the New York Times, Washington Post, and Financial Times. He writes the ""Next War' column for War on the Rocks. Outside of academia he is an officer in the U.S. Army 75th Innovation Command. Susan Bryant is a retired Army Colonel who served 28 years on active duty, including tours in Afghanistan, the Middle East and the Korean Peninsula. She holds a doctorate in liberal studies from Georgetown University, where she currently teaches Grand Strategy and Military Operations, as well as American Military History. She is also a Visiting Fellow at National Defense University's Institute for National Strategy Studies and a Visiting Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies."

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available