Agricultural Manpower Shortage in World War II: Analysis of a Historical Operational Environment
Abstract
What caused the agricultural manpower shortage in World War II? Historians have proffered a variety of explanations that attribute linear causality to a handful of independent variables. No scholar, however, has attempted to study the manpower shortage in its full causal complexity. This thesis, following the muse of analytic eclecticism, assembles a variety of cutting-edge political-science scholarship to develop a modified version of the Institutional Analysis Framework. The thesis applies this framework to the study of the agricultural manpower shortage during World War II. It argues that the agricultural manpower shortage was the result of emergent causality, which has significant implications for scholarly practice and strategic planning and intervention. Strategists and military planners must become adept at understanding both linear causality, wherein independent variables and dependent variables shed causal light on the world, and emergent causality, which -- however intractable it is to strategic levers -- is a component of sociopolitical affairs and war that cannot be eliminated.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 14, 2012
- Accession Number
- ADA569385
Entities
People
- Tevina Flood
Organizations
- United States Army Command and General Staff College