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Changing Military Doctrine Presidents and Military Power in Fifth Republic France, 1958-2000

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By Sten Rynning

Foreword by General Pierre Marie Gallois

ISBN: 0-275-97286-0

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97286-8

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256 pages, figures, tables

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 10/30/2001

List Price: $102.95 (UK Sterling Price: £59.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Reviews:

...useful analysis of French national security decision making and the tensions among nationalist, European, and Atlanticist factions in France. Graduate students and faculty.
—CHOICE September 2002
Changing Military Doctrine is a compulsory read not only for security scholars but also for students of modern French politics and history.
—European Security Fall 2002
...what we have here is a welcome additional insight into French policy-making in general, and military policy...has much to recommend it.
—European Foreign Affairs Review Winter 2002
...Rynning has given us a most useful and stimulating work. Strategists, in uniform or in armchair, will find it indespensible.
—The Journal of Military History July 2002

Endorsement From Ingemar Dörfer
Professor
Swedish Defence Research Agency: Using neoclassical realist theory Rynning deftly shows how French presidents in collusion with handpicked innovative generals overcame domestic resistance to national security policy change. Contradicting conventional wisdom French leaders have used allied commitments to shelter doctrinal change, improving cooperation in NATO. This is a highly innovative and readable study of military doctrinal change using the Fifth Republican as field of exploration.
Endorsement From Maurice Schmitt
General
Chief of Staff of the French Armed Forces, 1987-1991: At last a clear analysis of French military strategy from 1958 to 2000, in which Sten Rynning successfully identifies the dominating factors.

Description: As Rynning shows, armed forces have a natural interest in shaping military doctrine according to their resources, doctrinal traditions, as well as their assessment of the international environment. However, armed forces are also the instrument of policy-makers who are in charge of national security. Using civil-military relations in France from 1958 to the present as a case study, he shows when policy-makers are capable of controlling military doctrine as well as the means armed forces rely on to influence doctrine. Some scholars argue that policy-makers can control military doctrine only when the international environment is threatening--a situation granting them added decision-making authority. Others argue that such control ultimately depends on the degree of domestic political disagreement/consensus. With access to most of the leading military personnel and policy-makers of the era, Rynning provides an analysis that will be instructive to scholars as well as policy-makers and military leaders concerned with contemporary civil-military relations.

Table of Contents:

Preface
International Power, Politics, and Military Doctrine
From Clash to Innovation
Political Boomerang
Engineering a Coalition for Change
From Crisis to Innovation
Conclusion
Index

LC Card Number: 2001021169

LCC Class: UA700

Dewey Class: 355


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