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Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine

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Nonetheless, although there are therefore limits to what can be achieved with regard to a general theory of command simply by looking at the divisional level, this book does work as a means of exploring the impact of the changing character of warfare on command arrangements. Is there going to be something big like Russian forces getting encircled and trapped [around Kherson]? Military history, Warfare Read more by Richard Overy Britain’s Colony in Europe Refugees into Royal Marines Wicked Uncle Joe From the Kaiser to Kohl The Great Dictator?

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Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, is thought to have sacked six generals in the first six months of his war in Ukraine. My guest this week is Sir Lawrence Freedman, emeritus professor of war studies at King’s College London and author of a new book, Command: The Politics of Military Operations From Korea to Ukraine. Freedman’s view is never simply that of the headquarters, though, and he takes a savage pleasure in untangling the infighting among the staff and the soldiers on the ground. King’s argument is that there has been a substantial shift from a more or less individualistic form of command as practiced in the twentieth century to something which he describes as ‘collective command’.

Although these characterisations are in themselves dubious, and have broken down in the face of the demands of modern combat, Footnote 16 there are clearly different levels of command responsibility from the platoon up to the division and beyond.

Command: Individual or Collective? A Review of Anthony King’s Command: Individual or Collective? A Review of Anthony King’s

He appeared as chairman of a board of strong-minded individuals rather than as a directional leader. And I mean, obviously, this has been a fantastic week for the Ukrainians, but something like a fifth of their country is still occupied by Russia. Compared with Winston Churchill, his successor as Prime Minister, Clement Attlee hardly offered a heroic model. Lawrence Freedman is the dominant academic authority in Britain and the English-speaking world on the way modern wars have been fought. Sam is an education policy expert who was a Senior Policy Advisor to the then Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove from 2010 to 2013 and is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Government.Most importantly, Freedman’s a priori position is that military leaders must have a solid intellectual foundation.

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It looks like Putin was talking to his mates in the FSB [the federal security service] and GRU [military intelligence ] who shared his prejudices. A wide-ranging and insightful history of the changing nature of command in the postwar era, this will stand as a definitive account of a foundational concept in both military affairs and politics. He bills his book as one of the fruits of lockdown, and a sumptuous fruit it is, too: this should be a standard text in staff colleges around the world, and for military-history studies. Such tussles between layers of command are often the most bitter and consequential relationships in war.

So obviously, anything we say about what’s likely to happen now has to have all sorts of caveats around it. The special challenge of command lies in persuading people to act against their own instincts to survive and against the normal prohibitions against murdering fellow humans. Twenty years later, General Galtieri, the Argentinian dictator, seemed not to realise that the United Kingdom would send a task force 8,000 miles to liberate the Falkland Islands. There was a brief time, lasting from the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 to Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, when even quite sensible people wondered whether major wars might become a thing of the past. In modern times, commands are usually obeyed, since refusing a command is an act of insubordination, even mutiny, which military institutions punish unhesitatingly.

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