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Author Bailey, Russ, Colonel, author

Title Duffer's Shoal : a strategic dream of the Pacific Command area of responsibility / Russ Bailey, Chris Parsons, Elizabeth Smith, Derek O'Malley, Bob Dixon, Laura McAleer
Published Carlisle, PA : Strategic Studies Institute and U.S. Army War College Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 84 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
Series Advancing strategic thought series
Advancing strategic thought series
Contents First dream. An early appreciation -- Reflections -- Second dream. Of fish and pirates -- Reflections -- Third dream. The specter of terrorism -- Reflections -- Fourth dream. Dhaka's despair -- Reflections -- Fifth dream. A nightmare with China -- Reflections -- Sixth dream. A better way -- Reflections -- Epilogue. Insight 1 : Understand the environment -- Insight 2 : The cost of collaboration is lower than the price of failure -- Insight 3 : Expect unintended effects -- Insight 4 : Smart power is smart strategy -- Insight 5 : It pays to be prepared -- Insight 6 : "Mistrust" causes the nightmare scenario -- Conclusion. A better way : security through collective assurance and understanding
Summary "This strategic assessment seeks to go beyond a traditional comparative analysis of the military, technological, political, cultural, and economic factors governing the relationships and capabilities of the Asia Pacific environment. To make sense of the intrinsic complexities unique to this region, we endeavor to broaden our view and rely on a tool often overlooked in government studies: imagination. Moreover, we aim to offer a strategic document that is readable, instructive, and provocative. Pulling from a well-referenced piece of military teaching, this assessment borrows a learning concept first employed in 1904 by Major General Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton in 'The Defence of Duffer's Drift.' This fictional story describes the plight of young Lieutenant Backsight Forethought as he commands a 50-man platoon tasked to hold a tactically critical piece of land called Duffer's Drift. The story unfolds in a series of six dreams, where the blunders of the unwitting lieutenant lead to disaster. As the dreams progress, he harnesses the lessons of each of his failures, and by applying these lessons, his platoon ultimately defends Duffer's Drift"--Publisher's web site
Notes "August 2015."
Paper version available for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Publishing Office
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 72-84)
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SSI, viewed August 14, 2015)
Subject United States. Pacific Command.
SUBJECT United States. Pacific Command fast
Subject Security, International -- Asia
Security, International -- Pacific Area
Strategy.
Diplomatic relations
Military policy
Security, International
Strategic aspects of individual places
Strategy
SUBJECT United States -- Military policy -- 21st century
United States -- Foreign relations -- 21st century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003003697
Asia -- Strategic aspects
Pacific Area -- Strategic aspects
Subject Asia
Pacific Area
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Parsons, Christopher J., author
Smith, Elizabeth R., author
O'Malley, Derek J., author
Dixon, Robert G., author
McAleer, Laura, author
Swinton, E. D. (Ernest Dunlop), 1868-1951. Defence of Duffer's Drift
Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute, publisher
Army War College (U.S.). Press, publisher