War Termination: Why Don't We Plan for It

Abstract

see report Americans like to think that war termination takes care of itself. One side--ours--prevails on the battlefield and it's over. The chief objective of wartime strategy is defeating enemy arms as quickly as possible with the least cost in friendly casualties. As long as hostilities endure, diplomacy is subordinated to military requirements. War termination planning, such as it is accomplished, takes the form of civil affairs planning--the details of how the vanquished will be managed following capitulation of the enemy and cessation of hostilities. The victory of American arms in World War II, as well as in America's previous major wars, reinforced belief in the correctness, utility and efficacy of this kind of strategy.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 26, 1994
Accession Number
ADA444567

Entities

People

  • Bruce C. Brade

Organizations

  • National War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Civil War
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Game Theory
  • International Organizations
  • Military Planning
  • Military Strategy
  • National Security
  • Negotiations
  • New York
  • Psychology
  • Recreation
  • Second World War
  • Treaties
  • War
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.