Phillips Payson O’Brien
Biographic Data
| ID | 6154028 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Phillips Payson O’Brien |
| GIVEN NAMES | Phillips Payson |
| FAMILY NAME | O’Brien |
| SIGNATURE | O’BRIEN P P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7097-4298 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Organizational strategy and its implications for strategic studies: A review essay
In this review essay, we investigate how organisational strategy can help refresh traditional strategic and security studies debates. Despite their shared history, both disciplines have evolved in silos, lacking interdisciplinary engagement. To foster dialogue and mutual learning, the paper uses four key themes familiar to ‘Clausewitzian’ strategic studies – ends, ways, means, and friction – and introduces key thoughts of contemporary organisatio…
The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the atom bomb, the American Military Mind and the end of the Second World War
The decision by the US government to drop the atomic bombs on Japan is one of the most heavily debated questions in history. This article examines one element of that debate, in many ways the most surprising. That was the different views of the top of the military hierarchy in the USA, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). The JCS was on the whole more sceptical about using atomic weaponry than the USA’s civilian leadership, for ethical and strategic …
Herbert Hoover, Anglo–American Relations and Republican Party Politics in the 1920s
Herbert Hoover is often portrayed as a business-centric relatively non-political historical figure. In particular during his time as Commerce Secretary in the administrations of Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, Hoover is often described as supporting a United States foreign policy that first and foremost served the needs of American corporations. This article attempts to recalibrate that picture by stressing Hoover’s political self-interest as…
The Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1902-1922
The Titan Refreshed: Imperial Overstretch and the British Navy Before the First World War
Journal Article THE TITAN REFRESHED: IMPERIAL OVERSTRETCH AND THE BRITISH NAVY BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR Get access Phillips Payson O'Brien Phillips Payson O'Brien University of Glasgow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 172, Issue 1, August 2001, Pages 146–169, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/172.1.146 Published: 01 August 2001
East versus West in the defeat of Nazi Germany
One of the most commonly expressed opinions about victory in the Second World War is that the Soviet Union was mostly responsible for beating Nazi Germany. Supposedly the great land war fought between these two powers in the East was the decisive front in Europe. The West's contribution to German defeat, on the other hand, is often seen as somewhat marginal. The Anglo‐American strategic bombing campaign in 1943 paid few dividends and it was not u…
The Titan Refreshed: Imperial Overstretch and the British Navy Before the First World War
Journal Article THE TITAN REFRESHED: IMPERIAL OVERSTRETCH AND THE BRITISH NAVY BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR Get access Phillips Payson O'Brien Phillips Payson O'Brien University of Glasgow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 172, Issue 1, August 2001, Pages 146–169, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/172.1.146 Published: 01 August 2001
The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the atom bomb, the American Military Mind and the end of the Second World War
The decision by the US government to drop the atomic bombs on Japan is one of the most heavily debated questions in history. This article examines one element of that debate, in many ways the most surprising. That was the different views of the top of the military hierarchy in the USA, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). The JCS was on the whole more sceptical about using atomic weaponry than the USA’s civilian leadership, for ethical and strategic …
East versus West in the defeat of Nazi Germany
One of the most commonly expressed opinions about victory in the Second World War is that the Soviet Union was mostly responsible for beating Nazi Germany. Supposedly the great land war fought between these two powers in the East was the decisive front in Europe. The West's contribution to German defeat, on the other hand, is often seen as somewhat marginal. The Anglo‐American strategic bombing campaign in 1943 paid few dividends and it was not u…
The Titan Refreshed: Imperial Overstretch and the British Navy Before the First World War
Journal Article THE TITAN REFRESHED: IMPERIAL OVERSTRETCH AND THE BRITISH NAVY BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR Get access Phillips Payson O'Brien Phillips Payson O'Brien University of Glasgow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 172, Issue 1, August 2001, Pages 146–169, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/172.1.146 Published: 01 August 2001
The Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1902-1922
Herbert Hoover, Anglo–American Relations and Republican Party Politics in the 1920s
Herbert Hoover is often portrayed as a business-centric relatively non-political historical figure. In particular during his time as Commerce Secretary in the administrations of Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, Hoover is often described as supporting a United States foreign policy that first and foremost served the needs of American corporations. This article attempts to recalibrate that picture by stressing Hoover’s political self-interest as…
The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the atom bomb, the American Military Mind and the end of the Second World War
The decision by the US government to drop the atomic bombs on Japan is one of the most heavily debated questions in history. This article examines one element of that debate, in many ways the most surprising. That was the different views of the top of the military hierarchy in the USA, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). The JCS was on the whole more sceptical about using atomic weaponry than the USA’s civilian leadership, for ethical and strategic …
Organizational strategy and its implications for strategic studies: A review essay
In this review essay, we investigate how organisational strategy can help refresh traditional strategic and security studies debates. Despite their shared history, both disciplines have evolved in silos, lacking interdisciplinary engagement. To foster dialogue and mutual learning, the paper uses four key themes familiar to ‘Clausewitzian’ strategic studies – ends, ways, means, and friction – and introduces key thoughts of contemporary organisatio…
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