"Conclusion: Seven Lessons Learned from the Fog of Peace"
Book Chapter, The Fog of Peace and War Planning: Military and Strategic Planning under Uncertainty, pages 249-260
September 6, 2006
Authors: Talbot C. Imlay, Monica Duffy Toft, Associate Professor of Public Policy
Belfer Center Programs or Projects: International Security
"...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."
Other Chapters in The Fog of Peace and War Planning: Military and Strategic Planning under Uncertainty:
- Strategic and Military Planning under the Fog of Peace
- From the Fall of France to the Force de Frappe: the Remaking of French Military Power, 1940-62
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