CT352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Total Annihilation, Napoleonic Wars, Total War
12 Feb 2016
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Critique the book (answer guiding questions, how effective is it?) Consult 2 book reviews (do these align with your ideas, why) Warfare in the modern world, and the most significant developments. Doctrine is not dogma, not set in stone, it changes, a good military force learns from its mistakes and new situations, new doctrines are drawn up and training is changed accordingly. Early military attempts, had to rely on messengers, signal flags, beacons, tilting shields into the sun, carrier pigeons. Specfiic intel: rely more on precision targeting, minimize civilian death and property damage, via drones, surgically target strikes, and minimize risks to the surrounding population. If intel is crap, back to square one again, but have serious public relations nightmare. All these 4 functions are designed to make military function as good as possible, as effective. Most basic elements of conflict: clausewitz: the fog of war.
