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The Military Conflict Institute, 2013, 2312
pgs., graphs, paperback
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Reviewer's Comment: The TMCI was founded in
the 1970's with the goal of improving the analysis of war that is fundamental
to U.S. Department of Defense development of policy and use of attempts to
model warfare as part of this analysis. The present volume is a follow-on to
the TMCI publication of a Concise theory of Military Combat. The major
authors who wrote sections of this study are: Frank Benedict, Rosser Bobbitt,
Ted Dubois, Chuck Hawkins, John Honig, Wayne Hughes, John McIver, Roger
Mickelson, Claton Newell, Itzhak Ravid, Russ Vane, Gene Visco, and Greg Wilcox.
The background, fundamental concepts that TMCI has developed were greatly
influenced by its two founding authors, Dr. Colonel Donald Marshall, and
Colonel Trevor Dupuy.
Note that the concepts of 'war' and 'warfare' are different. 'War' is a state
of being, it is something that can be considered to exist But warfare' is a
process, it is the military operations conducted to achieve the objectives
sought by entering the condition of 'war'.
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Foreward
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Part I- Fundamentals of War
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Chapter I - Political Foundations
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Chapter 2 -Nature of War
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Chapter 3 -Causes and Effects
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Part II - Conduct of War
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Chapter 4 -Vital Interests, Goals, and Policy
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Chapter 5 - Strategy and Planning
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Chapter 6 - Initiaton - Thresholds
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Chapter 7 - Warfare
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Chapter 8 - Termination and Post-War
Considerations
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Part III -Elements of War
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Chapter 9 - War Leaders
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Chapter 10 - Resources
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Chapter 11 - Weapons and Material
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Chapter 12- Logistics
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Chapter 13 - Intelligence and Information
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Chapter 14 - Communications and Information
in War
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Part IV - The Future of War
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Chapter 15 - The Changing Content of War
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Chapter 16 - The Future of Warfare
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Chapter 17 - Future of Military Decision
Making and Modeling
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