High command: British military leadership in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
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2015
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XIII, 295, [16] S. Ill., Kt. 25 cm |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
Foreword
xiii
Maps
xiv
1.
Prologue
1
PARTI
WHAT HAPPENED
2.
A Case to Answer?
13
3.
Jumping to the Conclusion
23
Deciphering the Code
24
Armed Forces are
Diffèrent
28
Some Wars are Different
29
Warfare in a State of Evolution
30
Soldiers Will Die and They Will Cause Death
32
4.
Inside the Ministry of Defence
35
A Walk through the MoD
3 5
Seeing One of the Chiefs
37
The Motivations of the Actors
38
Other Influences
40
5.
The Tribes and The System
43
Defence Politicians
43
Civil Servants in the MoD
46
The First and Second Permanent Secretaries
5 3
The Military in the MoD
54
ix
CONTENTS
Different
World Views 61
The Royal Navy 61
The British Army
65
The Royal Air Force 6 8
Officers are Similar but Different
72
Officers Behaving Badly
7
A
The Culture of the MoD
77
Did it Matter?
81
6.
Setting the Conditions for Success and Failure
85
The Weinberger Doctrine
85
The Powell Doctrine
87
No Useable Doctrine
88
Blairs Doctrine
89
Problems for the Military
92
What did the Changes Mean for the UK?
93
7.
A Long Peace is Shattered
95
The Twin Towers
96
8.
War Comes to Afghanistan in
2001 99
Hunting al-Qaida
99
ISAF 100
A Limited Success
101
9.
The War on Terror Opens in Iraq in
2003 103
Aftermath of the Invasion
105
Hard Fighting
110
Operation Salamanca/Sinbad and The Deal
116
Out of Step
122
10.
Battle Returns to Afghanistan in
2006 129
NATO Expands its Role
129
Unified Command
130
Helmand
132
The Taliban Attack
ЪЪ
Why Helmand?
136
11.
Emerging Criticism and Flawed Strategies
143
A Capable Army
143
CONTENTS
Someone
Was
to Blame l44
Strategy
147
Good Strategy
151
Contradictions in UK Strategies
153
How were these Strategic Inconsistencies
Lefi
Unchecked?
160
PART
2
WHY IT HAPPENED
12.
Making Military Decisions
167
Sorting Out the Levels of Decision-making
167
The Defence Crisis Management Organisation (DCMO)
168
High-level Decision-making in Main Building
170
The Permanent
f
oint
Headquarters (PfHQ)
175
Orphaned Commanders
179
13.
The Chiefs
185
The Development of the Chiefs of Staff System
185
Selection of a Service Chief
190
Military Chiefs in a Political World
192
Selection of the Chief of the Defence Staff
195
The Chief of the Defence Staff
196
Preparation for the Top
f
ob 200
The Chiefs of the Defence Staff in Action
202
The Chief of the Defence Staff as the War Commander
205
Conclusion
211
PART3
WHAT NEXT?
14.
The Aftermath
215
Why Did it Go Wrong?
215
How Things Could Improve
222
Who is to be in Charge and How should Decisions be Taken?
228
Choosing and Training the Chief
232
15.
Fit for the Future?
235
Annex
1.
Events and Principal UK Defence Personalities
241
xi
CONTENTS
Annex 2. Principal
UK Field
Commanders 245
Annex 3.
Summary of Eight Contradictions in UK Strategy
249
Annex
4.
List of Titles, Acronyms and Ranks
251
Notes
255
Bibliography
287
Index
291
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