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2009

Summer 2009

"Correspondence: Debating British Decisionmaking toward Nazi Germany in the 1930s"

Journal Article, International Security, issue 1, volume 34

By Andrew Barros, Talbot C. Imlay, Evan Resnick, Norrin M. Ripsman and Jack S. Levy

Andrew Barros, Talbot Imlay, and Evan Resnick reply to Norrin Ripsman and Jack Levy's Fall 2008 International Security article, "Wishful Thinking or Buying Time? The Logic of British Appeasement in the 1930s."

 

2006

September 6, 2006

"Strategic and Military Planning under the Fog of Peace"

Book Chapter

By Monica Duffy Toft, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Talbot C. Imlay

"...in their scope and diversity, the cases provide an excellent overview of the challenges confronting military planners over the last two hundred years."

 

 

September 6, 2006

"Conclusion: Seven Lessons Learned from the Fog of Peace"

Book Chapter

By Talbot C. Imlay and Monica Duffy Toft, Associate Professor of Public Policy

"...the fog of peace can never be entirely pierced. Flexibility and constant cultivation of the ability to question received wisdom and to reconsider assumptions are the best security against catastrophic failure in a future war, regardless of whether that war resembles a more traditional interstate war or the current war on terror."

 

 

September 2006

The Fog of Peace and War Planning: Military and Strategic Planning under Uncertainty

Book

By Talbot C. Imlay and Monica Duffy Toft, Associate Professor of Public Policy

This volume sets out to examine and analyse how governments and military organizations planned for an uncertain and potentially threatening future during four different peacetime periods spanning from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the aftermath of the Second World War.

 

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