Title from PDF title page (SSI, viewed March 26, 2014).
"March 2014."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 51-59).
Contents
Purpose and problems -- Approaches -- What can we learn from strategic history? -- Conclusions and recommendations.
Summary
The challenge that is defense planning includes: "educated futurology" and the humanities as methodological approaches; futurists and scenarios, trend spotting and defense analysis; the impossibility of science in studying the future; the impossibility of verification by empirical testing of hypotheses; the value of the humanities which are politics, strategy, and history for defense planning; the use and misuse of analogy; learning from history; why and how strategic history works; and recommendations for the Army. What can be learned from history and what cannot are discussed in this analysis.
