Thomas G Mahnken
Biographic Data
| ID | 3744740 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas G Mahnken |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas G |
| FAMILY NAME | Mahnken |
| SIGNATURE | MAHNKEN T G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Naval War College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The New Makers of Modern Strategy: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age
Timeless and the temporary: Strategic thinking for 21st century strategy
A central challenge of the military profession revolves around how best to understand future wars and the strategies needed to fight them. Colin S. Gray grappled with this matter throughout his lon
Arms Races in International Politics: From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century
The first comprehensive history of the arms racing phenomenon in modern international politics, drawing on European, Asian, and Middle Eastern examples from throughout the twentieth century and addressing the key questions - what causes arms races, and what is the connection between arms races and the outbreak of wars?
The Cambridge History of the Second World War: Volume 1, Fighting the War
The military events of the Second World War have been the subject of historical debate from 1945 to the present. It mattered greatly who won, and fighting was the essential determinant of victory or defeat. In Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of the Second World War a team of twenty-five leading historians offer a comprehensive and authoritative new account of the war's military and strategic history. Part I examines the military cultures and st…
Strategy in Asia: The Past, Present, and Future of Regional Security
Conceiving of Future War: The Promise of Scenario Analysis for International Relations
This article introduces political scientists to scenarios—future counterfactuals—and demonstrates their value in tandem with other methodologies and across a wide range of research questions. The authors describe best practices regarding the scenario method and argue that scenarios contribute to theory building and development, identifying new hypotheses, analyzing data-poor research topics, articulating “world views,” setting new research agenda…
Conflict and Cooperation in the Global Commons: A Comprehensive Approach for International Security
Gathering Pacific Storm: Emerging US-China Strategic Competition in Defense Technological and Industrial Development
The Evolution of Strategy … But What About Policy
China's Anti-Access Strategy in Historical and Theoretical Perspective
This article views China's development of anti-access capabilities against the backdrop of the theory and history of military innovation. It begins with a discussion of the process of military innovation, as well as the indicators that may appear at different stages of that process. It then discusses the barriers to recognizing new ways of war and applies that framework to China's development of advanced ballistic missiles, to include precision-g…
Weapons: The Growth & Spread of the Precision-Strike Regime
For two decades, scholars and practitioners have argued that the world is experiencing a Revolution in Military Affairs (rma) brought on by the development and diffusion of precision-strike and related capabilities, such as intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; precision navigation and tracking; and robustly improved command and control.The United States took an early lead in exploiting the promise of precision-strike systems, and the u…
U. S. Strategic and Organizational Subcultures
The notion that there is a connection between a society and its strategic culture has a long and distinguished pedigree. In his history of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides records that the Spartan king Archidamus and the Athenian strategos Pericles each linked the capabilities of their military to the constitution of their state.' Writing more than 2,400 years later, Julian Corbett drew a distinction between the German or "continental" and Briti…
Bridging the Gap Between the Worlds of Ideas and Action
Partnership for mutual benefit: A reply from the Pentagon
War in Iraq: Planning and Execution
Paradoxes of Strategic Intelligence: Essays in Honor of Michael I. Handel
Tread-Heads or Technophiles? Army Officer Attitudes Toward Transformation
then the Army Chief of Staff, announced a goal of reconfiguring the Army from a force mainly composed of heavy formations into a medium-weight force capable of deploying a 5,000-soldier brigade anywhere in the world within 96 hours. The Army is replacing some heavy armored and mechanized units with a force of six Stryker Brigade Combat Teams equipped with light wheeled armored vehicles. By 2010, it will field a networked Future Force equipped wit…
Paradoxes of Strategic Intelligence: Essays in Honor of Michael I. Handel
Intelligence and the problem of strategic surprise, Michael I. Handel politicization of intelligence - costs and benefits, Richard K. Betts intelligence failures - forecasting and the lessons of epistemology, Woodrow J. Kuhns theory of surprise, James J. Wirtz FORTITUDE in context - the evolution of British military deception in two world wars, 1914-1945, John Ferris intelligence failure and the need for cognitive closure - the case of Yom Kippur…
Revolutionary Ambivalence: Understanding Officer Attitudes toward Transformation
October 01 2003 Revolutionary Ambivalence: Understanding Officer Attitudes toward Transformation Thomas G. Mahnken, Thomas G. Mahnken Acting Director of the Strategic Studies Program at the Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar James R. FitzSimonds James R. FitzSimonds Research Professor in the War Gaming Department at the U.S. Naval Wa…
The Future of Strategic Studies
Uncovering Ways of War: U.S. Intelligence and Foreign Military Innovation, 1918-1941
Intelligence operations face the challenging task of predicting the shape of future wars. This task is hindered by their limited ability to warn of peacetime foreign military innovation. Using formerly classified sources-in particular, the reports of military attaches and other diplomat-officers-Thomas G. Mahnken sheds light on the shadowy world of U.S. intelligence-gathering, tracing how America learned of military developments in Japan, Germany…
Intelligence and the War against Japan: Britain, America, and the Politics of Secret Service
Facing nuclear and conventional reality
Uncovering foreign military innovation
An analysis of US assessments of Germany's development of armored warfare illustrates the problems that intelligence agencies face as they attempt to understand military innovation. The covert nature of German Army's tank research in the years immediately following World War I limited the number of indicators of Berlin's interest in armored warfare. Similarly, the United States possessed at best a fragmentary picture of German experimentation wit…
What the Gulf War Can (and Cannot) Tell Us about the Future of Warfare
China's Anti-Access Strategy in Historical and Theoretical Perspective
This article views China's development of anti-access capabilities against the backdrop of the theory and history of military innovation. It begins with a discussion of the process of military innovation, as well as the indicators that may appear at different stages of that process. It then discusses the barriers to recognizing new ways of war and applies that framework to China's development of advanced ballistic missiles, to include precision-g…
Weapons: The Growth & Spread of the Precision-Strike Regime
For two decades, scholars and practitioners have argued that the world is experiencing a Revolution in Military Affairs (rma) brought on by the development and diffusion of precision-strike and related capabilities, such as intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; precision navigation and tracking; and robustly improved command and control.The United States took an early lead in exploiting the promise of precision-strike systems, and the u…
Paradoxes of Strategic Intelligence: Essays in Honor of Michael I. Handel
Intelligence and the problem of strategic surprise, Michael I. Handel politicization of intelligence - costs and benefits, Richard K. Betts intelligence failures - forecasting and the lessons of epistemology, Woodrow J. Kuhns theory of surprise, James J. Wirtz FORTITUDE in context - the evolution of British military deception in two world wars, 1914-1945, John Ferris intelligence failure and the need for cognitive closure - the case of Yom Kippur…
The New Makers of Modern Strategy: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age
Bridging the Gap Between the Worlds of Ideas and Action
Revolutionary Ambivalence: Understanding Officer Attitudes toward Transformation
October 01 2003 Revolutionary Ambivalence: Understanding Officer Attitudes toward Transformation Thomas G. Mahnken, Thomas G. Mahnken Acting Director of the Strategic Studies Program at the Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar James R. FitzSimonds James R. FitzSimonds Research Professor in the War Gaming Department at the U.S. Naval Wa…
The Future of Strategic Studies
Uncovering Ways of War: U.S. Intelligence and Foreign Military Innovation, 1918-1941
Intelligence operations face the challenging task of predicting the shape of future wars. This task is hindered by their limited ability to warn of peacetime foreign military innovation. Using formerly classified sources-in particular, the reports of military attaches and other diplomat-officers-Thomas G. Mahnken sheds light on the shadowy world of U.S. intelligence-gathering, tracing how America learned of military developments in Japan, Germany…
Uncovering foreign military innovation
An analysis of US assessments of Germany's development of armored warfare illustrates the problems that intelligence agencies face as they attempt to understand military innovation. The covert nature of German Army's tank research in the years immediately following World War I limited the number of indicators of Berlin's interest in armored warfare. Similarly, the United States possessed at best a fragmentary picture of German experimentation wit…
America's Next War
The Arrow and the Shield: U.S. Responses to Ballistic Missile Proliferation
What the Gulf War Can (and Cannot) Tell Us about the Future of Warfare
The spread of missile technology to the third world
The technology to build ballistic missiles is spreading to unstable regions in the developing world such as the Middle East and South Asia. The acquisition of such systems is motivated by the ballistic missile's utility as a weapon, a deterrent against outside intervention, and a symbol of national independence. In the coming years, states in the developing world will increasingly be able to field missiles with longer range, higher accuracy, and …
Current Sino-Soviet Military Relations
The split between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China (PRC) is now a major feature of the world's geopolitical landscape, one that affects not only Sino-Soviet relations, but also East-West relations as a whole. It is thus crucial to understand the development and scope of the military confrontation that has emerged between the USSR and the PRC. The purpose of this paper is to examine the military aspect of Sino-Soviet relations a…
Current Sino-Soviet Military Relations
The split between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China (PRC) is now a major feature of the world's geopolitical landscape, one that affects not only Sino-Soviet relations, but also East-West relations as a whole. It is thus crucial to understand the development and scope of the military confrontation that has emerged between the USSR and the PRC. The purpose of this paper is to examine the military aspect of Sino-Soviet relations a…
The spread of missile technology to the third world
The technology to build ballistic missiles is spreading to unstable regions in the developing world such as the Middle East and South Asia. The acquisition of such systems is motivated by the ballistic missile's utility as a weapon, a deterrent against outside intervention, and a symbol of national independence. In the coming years, states in the developing world will increasingly be able to field missiles with longer range, higher accuracy, and …
The Arrow and the Shield: U.S. Responses to Ballistic Missile Proliferation
America's Next War
What the Gulf War Can (and Cannot) Tell Us about the Future of Warfare
What the Gulf War Can (and Cannot) Tell Us about the Future of Warfare
Uncovering foreign military innovation
An analysis of US assessments of Germany's development of armored warfare illustrates the problems that intelligence agencies face as they attempt to understand military innovation. The covert nature of German Army's tank research in the years immediately following World War I limited the number of indicators of Berlin's interest in armored warfare. Similarly, the United States possessed at best a fragmentary picture of German experimentation wit…
Facing nuclear and conventional reality
Intelligence and the War against Japan: Britain, America, and the Politics of Secret Service
Revolutionary Ambivalence: Understanding Officer Attitudes toward Transformation
October 01 2003 Revolutionary Ambivalence: Understanding Officer Attitudes toward Transformation Thomas G. Mahnken, Thomas G. Mahnken Acting Director of the Strategic Studies Program at the Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar James R. FitzSimonds James R. FitzSimonds Research Professor in the War Gaming Department at the U.S. Naval Wa…
The Future of Strategic Studies
Uncovering Ways of War: U.S. Intelligence and Foreign Military Innovation, 1918-1941
Intelligence operations face the challenging task of predicting the shape of future wars. This task is hindered by their limited ability to warn of peacetime foreign military innovation. Using formerly classified sources-in particular, the reports of military attaches and other diplomat-officers-Thomas G. Mahnken sheds light on the shadowy world of U.S. intelligence-gathering, tracing how America learned of military developments in Japan, Germany…
Paradoxes of Strategic Intelligence: Essays in Honor of Michael I. Handel
Tread-Heads or Technophiles? Army Officer Attitudes Toward Transformation
then the Army Chief of Staff, announced a goal of reconfiguring the Army from a force mainly composed of heavy formations into a medium-weight force capable of deploying a 5,000-soldier brigade anywhere in the world within 96 hours. The Army is replacing some heavy armored and mechanized units with a force of six Stryker Brigade Combat Teams equipped with light wheeled armored vehicles. By 2010, it will field a networked Future Force equipped wit…
Paradoxes of Strategic Intelligence: Essays in Honor of Michael I. Handel
Intelligence and the problem of strategic surprise, Michael I. Handel politicization of intelligence - costs and benefits, Richard K. Betts intelligence failures - forecasting and the lessons of epistemology, Woodrow J. Kuhns theory of surprise, James J. Wirtz FORTITUDE in context - the evolution of British military deception in two world wars, 1914-1945, John Ferris intelligence failure and the need for cognitive closure - the case of Yom Kippur…
War in Iraq: Planning and Execution
Partnership for mutual benefit: A reply from the Pentagon
U. S. Strategic and Organizational Subcultures
The notion that there is a connection between a society and its strategic culture has a long and distinguished pedigree. In his history of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides records that the Spartan king Archidamus and the Athenian strategos Pericles each linked the capabilities of their military to the constitution of their state.' Writing more than 2,400 years later, Julian Corbett drew a distinction between the German or "continental" and Briti…
Bridging the Gap Between the Worlds of Ideas and Action
The Evolution of Strategy … But What About Policy
China's Anti-Access Strategy in Historical and Theoretical Perspective
This article views China's development of anti-access capabilities against the backdrop of the theory and history of military innovation. It begins with a discussion of the process of military innovation, as well as the indicators that may appear at different stages of that process. It then discusses the barriers to recognizing new ways of war and applies that framework to China's development of advanced ballistic missiles, to include precision-g…
Weapons: The Growth & Spread of the Precision-Strike Regime
For two decades, scholars and practitioners have argued that the world is experiencing a Revolution in Military Affairs (rma) brought on by the development and diffusion of precision-strike and related capabilities, such as intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; precision navigation and tracking; and robustly improved command and control.The United States took an early lead in exploiting the promise of precision-strike systems, and the u…
Conflict and Cooperation in the Global Commons: A Comprehensive Approach for International Security
Gathering Pacific Storm: Emerging US-China Strategic Competition in Defense Technological and Industrial Development
Conceiving of Future War: The Promise of Scenario Analysis for International Relations
This article introduces political scientists to scenarios—future counterfactuals—and demonstrates their value in tandem with other methodologies and across a wide range of research questions. The authors describe best practices regarding the scenario method and argue that scenarios contribute to theory building and development, identifying new hypotheses, analyzing data-poor research topics, articulating “world views,” setting new research agenda…
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