EPISODE · Sep 8, 2022 · 5 MIN
Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine by Lawrence Freedman
from Top Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & Politics · host Maeve Nikolaus
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613637 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine Author: Lawrence Freedman Narrator: Richard Burnip Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 8, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Throughout history, the concept of command -- as both a way to achieve objectives and as an assertion of authority -- has been essential to military action and leadership. But, as Sir Lawrence Freedman shows, it is also deeply political. Military command has been reconstructed and revolutionized since the Second World War by nuclear warfare, small-scale guerrilla land operations and cyber interference. Freedman takes a global perspective, systematically investigating its practice and politics since 1945 through a wide range of conflicts from the French Colonial Wars, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bangladesh Liberation War to North Vietnam's Easter Offensive of 1972, the Falklands War, the Iraq War and Russia's wars in Chechnya and Ukraine. By highlighting the political nature of strategy, Freedman shows that military decision-making cannot be separated from civilian priorities and that commanders must now have the sensibility to navigate politics as well as warfare. © Lawrence Freedman 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613637 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine Author: Lawrence Freedman Narrator: Richard Burnip Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 8, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Throughout history, the concept of command -- as both a way to achieve objectives and as an assertion of authority -- has been essential to military action and leadership. But, as Sir Lawrence Freedman shows, it is also deeply political. Military command has been reconstructed and revolutionized since the Second World War by nuclear warfare, small-scale guerrilla land operations and cyber interference. Freedman takes a global perspective, systematically investigating its practice and politics since 1945 through a wide range of conflicts from the French Colonial Wars, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bangladesh Liberation War to North Vietnam's Easter Offensive of 1972, the Falklands War, the Iraq War and Russia's wars in Chechnya and Ukraine. By highlighting the political nature of strategy, Freedman shows that military decision-making cannot be separated from civilian priorities and that commanders must now have the sensibility to navigate politics as well as warfare. © Lawrence Freedman 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
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