McNair Paper 68.Examines the question of whether Clausewitzian friction would succumb to the changes in leading-edge warfare that may lie ahead, or whether such impediments reflect more enduring aspects of war that technology can only affect marginally. Clausewitzian friction refers to the theory by Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) that reality exerts a kind of friction on ideas and intentions in war. This term is commonly associated with the diverse difficulties and impediments to the effective use of military force.

Clausewitzian Friction and Future War, Revised Edition (McNair Papers)

History

Watts, Barry D

Historical Study & Educational Resources

National Defense University

Andrew Marshall is a Pentagon legend. For more than four decades he has served as Director of the Office of Net Assessment, the Pentagon's internal think tank, under twelve defense secretaries and eight administrations. Yet Marshall has been on the cutting edge of strategic thinking even longer than that. At the RAND Corporation during its golden age in the 1950s and early 1960s, Marshall helped formulate bedrock concepts of US nuclear strategy that endure to this day; later, at the Pentagon, he pioneered the development of net assessment”a new analytic framework for understanding the long-term military competition between the United States and the Soviet Union. Following the Cold War, Marshall successfully used net assessment to anticipate emerging disruptive shifts in military affairs, including the revolution in precision warfare and the rise of China as a major strategic rival of the United States. In The Last Warrior, Andrew Krepinevich and Barry Wattsboth former members of Marshall's stafftrace Marshall's intellectual development from his upbringing in Detroit during the Great Depression to his decades in Washington as an influential behind-the-scenes advisor on American defense strategy. The result is a unique insider's perspective on the changes in US strategy from the dawn of the Cold War to the present day. Covering some of the most pivotal episodes of the last half-century and peopled with some of the era's most influential figures, The Last Warrior tells Marshall's story for the first time, in the process providing an unparalleled history of the evolution of the American defense establishment.

The Last Warrior: Andrew Marshall and the Shaping of Modern American Defense Strategy

Krepinevich, Andrew F

Americas

Basic Books

McNair Paper 68.Examines the question of whether Clausewitzian friction would succumb to the changes in leading-edge warfare that may lie ahead, or whether such impediments reflect more enduring aspects of war that technology can only affect marginally. Clausewitzian friction refers to the theory by Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) that reality exerts a kind of friction on ideas and intentions in war. This term is commonly associated with the diverse difficulties and impediments to the effective use of military force.

Clausewitzian Friction And Future War

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Diane Pub Co.

McNair Paper 68. Examines the question of whether Clausewitzian friction would succumb to the changes in leading-edge warfare that may lie ahead, or whether such impediments reflect more enduring aspects of war that technology can only affect marginally. Clausewitzian friction refers to the theory by Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) that reality exerts a kind of friction on ideas and intentions in war. This term is commonly associated with the diverse difficulties and impediments to the effective use of military force.

Clausewitzian Friction & Future War

This study analyzes airpower doctrine from the viewpoint of Clausewitzian friction. The result of the analysis is the conclusion that American airpower doctrine has changed very little since the 1930s and that it is fundamentally flawed.  Lieutenant Colonel Barry D. Watts has been teaching and writing about military theory since he joined the Air Force Academy faculty in 1974. During the Vietnam War he saw combat with the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing at Ubon, Thailand, completing 100 missions over North Vietnam in June 1968. Subsequently, Lieutenant Colonel Watts flew F-4s from Yokota AB, Japan, and Kadena AB, Okinawa. More recently, he has served as a military assistant to the Director of Net Assessment, Office of the Secretary of Defense, and with the Air Staff's Project CHECKMATE.

The Foundations of US Air Doctrine: The Problem of Friction in War

Military

University Press of the Pacific

The original version of this paper, completed in December 1995, was condensed by Williamson Murray, editor of Brassey’s Mershon American Defense Annual, for the 1996–1997 edition. This condensation did not include three entire sections that are part of this present study (chapter 3 on Scharnhorst’s influence, chapter 6 on strategic surprise, and chapter 9, which contained air combat data bearing on the role of friction in future war). Dr. Murray also cut significant parts of other sections, especially in chapter 10, and precipitated a fair amount of rewriting as he and I worked toward a version that met his length constraint but still reflected the essence of the original paper. While this process led to many textual improvements, it did not generate any substantive changes.

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The Foundations of Us Air Doctrine: the Problem of Friction in War

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Personal Transformation

Air University Press

Contents fine and bright. The cover is mostly fine but has a definate red/blue pencil mark on the edge of front cover easy to see. Illustrated. although the title page suggest a date of 1984 - this is actually a 2001 printing.

The Foundations of U.S. Air Doctrine: The Problem of Friction in War

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