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Survival: Global Politics and Strategy

Volume 48, Issue 3, 2006

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Abstract

The conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq have revealed the problems that both the United States and Britain confront in formulating strategy. In part this problem is intellectual: strategy is not just about the unilateral implementation of policy, it is also a process applicable in the dynamic and multilateral context of war. However, the difficulties are also institutional. Encumbered with unrealistic models of civil–military relations, the United States and the United Kingdom have allowed their machineries for the making of strategy to atrophy.

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  • Published online: 03 Aug 2006

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  • Hew Strachan -
    Hew Strachan is Chichele Professor of the History of War and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where he also directs the Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War. Between 1992 and 2001, he was Professor of Modern History at the University of Glasgow and established its Scottish Centre for War Studies in 1996. He is a Life Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

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