Strategic Homeporting a Tactical Perspective
Strategic Homeporting a Tactical Perspective

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Published: 1991

Total Pages: 23

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Strategic Homeporting as a concept is not new. Naval planners saw the value of having naval stations on every coast since before WW I. The concept has also not been without controversy since that time, and proponents and opponents of the program today are arguing points that were argued almost 80 years ago. The arguments, for or against, never fully concentrated on the tactical level, or the level from which the actual war fighters had to deal. The arguments were either national strategy of policy related and more often than not were influenced by money in one way or another. Today, because of budget constraints and the corresponding reduction in forces, the war fighter, the CINC for the purpose of this paper, has to respond to crises in his AOR with fewer and less forward deployed assets than was the case just a few years ago; so any increase in flexibility greatly increases the chance for success of his mission. The Strategic Homeport Program, along with the advent of the BB SAG, gives the CINC an added measure of flexibility to respond to crises within his AOR and greatly increases his chance for success.

Perspectives on Strategy
Perspectives on Strategy

Author: Colin S. Gray

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2013-03-28

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0191656003

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Perspectives on Strategy examines in depth five aspects of strategy. Strategic thought and behaviour are explored and explained from the perspectives of intellect, morality, culture, geography, and technology. Each perspective has attracted persisting controversy. Perspectives on Strategy is strongly complementary to the author's previous book, The Strategy Bridge: Theory for Practice (OUP, 2010). This new work takes a notably holistic view of strategic phenomena, which serves as a master framework within which detailed examination of strategic history and issues can usefully be pursued in the light of particular perspectives. Foundational for the argument in Perspectives on Strategy is the proposition that distinctive aspects of strategy (e.g. ethics, culture, inter alia) can only be appreciated properly when they are regarded in context. The author shares this view with T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia), who wrote of the 'whole house of war'. Perspectives on Strategy gratefully adapts Lawrence and writes about the 'whole house of strategy'. The book insists that the nature of strategy is best represented by a Venn diagram that shows overlapping perspectives. Thus, the subject of each chapter is shown as having meaning for, and in turn is influenced by, the subjects of the other chapters. For example, the book explores the importance of strategic ideas relative to the significance of the material weapons of war. The author poses the hardest of questions pertinent to each chosen perspective (e.g. do ideas matter more than muscle?—in practice how robust is the ethical code with which warfare is waged?—is geography destiny, as some theorists have claimed?—and do technically superior weapons win wars?)Perspectives on Strategy demonstrates that it is possible to look closely at strategic matters from limited but arguably powerful perspectives, without being captured by them. This book asks and answers the most challenging and rewarding questions that can be posed in order to reveal the persisting universal nature, but ever changing character, of strategy.

Tying Greece to the West
Tying Greece to the West

Author: Mogens Pelt

Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 8772895837

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Tying Greece to the West: US-West German-Greek Relations 1949-74 examines the reconstruction of Greece in the post-war era and how the Greek foreign economic and political relations with the United States and West Germany developedespecially the Greek-West German trade and the American and West German financial and aid policy. Furthermore, it investigates what impact Greek foreign relations had on the domestic development, particularly in relation to the establishment of the dictatorship in 1967the so-called Colonels Regime. The Second World War disrupted the Greek economy, polarized politics and left Greece in a state of severe economic and social disorder. The Axis occupation was followed by civil war with devastating consequences and the Greek Civil War was one immediate reason for the declaration of the Truman Doctrine in 1947. The Truman Doctrine made Greece subject to the most costly overseas American aid program ever in peace time. However, gradually, West Germany became the b