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The U.S. and Canadian Army strategies : failures in understanding

Author: Stephen Brent Appleton; Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute.
Publisher: [Carlisle Barracks, Pa.] : Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2003.
Series: Carlisle papers in security strategy.
Edition/Format:   Book : National government publication : eBook : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
The business community has borrowed freely from and refined military thinking. This practice has been in large part credited with the enormous success of the industrial expansion of the United States and Canada. Many of today's multicorporations gained global prominence from adopting and employing military concepts and people. But the phenomenon has not been altogether one-sided. Since the 1970s, the military  Read more...
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Material Type: Government publication, National government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Stephen Brent Appleton; Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute.
ISBN: 1584871407 9781584871408
OCLC Number: 53237496
Notes: "September 2003."
Description: v, 54 p. : ill., charts ; 28 cm.
Series Title: Carlisle papers in security strategy.
Other Titles: United States and Canadian Army strategies
Responsibility: Stephen Brent Appleton.

Abstract:

The business community has borrowed freely from and refined military thinking. This practice has been in large part credited with the enormous success of the industrial expansion of the United States and Canada. Many of today's multicorporations gained global prominence from adopting and employing military concepts and people. But the phenomenon has not been altogether one-sided. Since the 1970s, the military profession has, in turn, embraced organizational thinking and business practices. The author will focus on the military's attempt to assimilate aspects of management and organizational theory, as well as business experience, to bring direction and meaning to its present and future placement in the 21st century. More specifically, he will examine the formal strategies of both the U.S. and Canadian Armies within the context of present organizational thinking as taught by leading institutions and utilized by Corporate North America. The author will argue that the penchant of both armies to internalize business concepts and strategies has left the two nations' armies in a perilous situation pertaining to strategy formulation and direction. Using current management and organizational models, the author intends to identify the fundamental weaknesses within the two armies' strategies. More importantly, as both armies engage enterprise-wide transformation, the author will demonstrate how this fundamental weakness in cognition and application has the very real possibility of jeopardizing the relevancy of both nations' land forces.

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