Barry R. Posen is Ford International Professor of Political Science and director of the Security Studies Program at MIT. He is the author of Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy, The Sources of Military Doctrine: France, Britain, and Germany between the World Wars (winner of the Furniss Award and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award) and Inadvertent Escalation: Conventional War and Nuclear Risks, all from Cornell.
This is a scholarly and conceptually ambitious work which seeks to
explain how military doctrine takes place and its role in 'grand
strategy.' The core of the study examines military doctrines in the
interwar period, discussing the German blitzkrieg and British air
defense system as successes, and the French army's Maginot Line
doctrine as a great failure. Posen develops many intriguing ideas
and theoretical insights, and debates those of his academic peers,
in a rich volume that has to be studied as well as read.
*Foreign Affairs*
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