Organising for War: Strategic Culture and the Organisation of High Command in Britain and Germany, 1850–1945: A Comparative Perspective

Freuding, Lieutenant Colonel Christian

doi:10.1080/14702436.2010.503683

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“…They have also used strategic culture to explain strategic behavior, which also is the purpose of this article. Previous research includes attempts to explain the choice between defensive and offensive military doctrines (Kier 1995), Germany's reluctance to use military force (Duffield 1999), the organization of strategic decision-making in Britain and Germany (Freuding 2010), differences in the way that small states escalate in military operations (Angstrom and Honig 2012), and the willingness of different states to participate in military operations (O'Connor and Vucetic 2010, Britz 2016, Doeser 2016b, Mirow 2016, Becker 2017.…”

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Historical experiences, strategic culture, and strategic behavior: Poland in the anti-ISIS coalition

Doeser

2018

Defence Studies

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This article contributes to an explanation of why Poland, after a period of almost two years' hesitation, decided to dispatch military forces to the United States-led coalition against the Islamic State in June 2016. The Polish case is examined by applying the concept of strategic culture, taking into account a state's core military strategic beliefs and the historical experiences on which these beliefs are based. The case study shows that strategic culture shaped the Polish decision-making on the coalition, by predisposing the decision-makers toward a typical Polish behavior in international military operations, namely to exchange security benefits with important allies. The article also has implications for the general study of strategic culture, by specifying the relationship between historical experiences and strategic culture. ARTICLE HISTORY

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