Bernard Brodie
Biographic Data
| ID | 730034 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bernard Brodie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bernard |
| FAMILY NAME | Brodie |
| SIGNATURE | BRODIE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | RAND Corporation |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 107 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1941 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Development of Nuclear Strategy
I That concept was put forward almost at once at the beginning of the nuclear age that is still the dominant concept of nuclear strategy-deterrence. It fell to me-few other civilians at the time were interested in military strategy-to publish the first analytical paper on the military implications of nuclear weapons. Entitled Atomic Bomb and American Security, it appeared in the autumn of 1945 as No. 18 of the occasional papers of what was then t…
On War
Clausewitz and the State
In Quest of the Unknown Clausewitz
On the Objectives of Arms Control
The volume of literature on arms control contrasts sharply with the dearth of results in actual armaments limitation or control. This huge disparity between fullness of advice and leanness of practical results suggests a good deal about both the character of that advice and the magnitude of the practical difficulties-and especially about the failure of the former to adjust to the latter. The ample quantity of the writing on arms control in the fa…
War and Politics
Home from the War
The reissuing of Robert Jay Lifton's moving and important 1973 study of Vietnam veterans can serve as a timely reminder of how easily and how much we forget. Lifton's study, furthermore, raises the of what we as a society have learned from the pain, guilt, and rage of these men, and from our own unease over a small, undeclared war that we lost. Lifton's work is based on two years5 intensive participation in weekly groups55 with veterans that met …
On Clausewitz
We are especially indebted to the author of this book because of the extraordinary paucity of biographies of the great man who is its subject. As the British military historian, Michael Howard, says in the foreword: “Clausewitz as a man remains almost completely unknown.” And again: “As yet mere has appeared no serious biography in English and for this reason alone Roger Parkinson's book breaks important new ground
The absolute weapon
Why Were We So (Strategically) Wrong
Nato in Quest of Cohesion. Karl H. Cerny , Henry W. Briefs Nato in Transition
The McNamara Phenomenon
THE Kennedy Administration had not been long in office when one began to hear from Pentagon friends that the man whom the President had chosen as his Secretary of Defense was not just extraordinary; he was un phénomène
Conventional capabilities in Europe
The possibility of total war
Strategy in the Missile Age
Strategy in the Missile Age first reviews the development of modern military strategy to World War II, giving the reader a reference point for the radical rethinking that follows, as Dr. Brodie considers the problems of the Strategic Air Command, of civil defense, of limited war, of counterforce or pre-emptive strategies, of city-busting, of missile bases in Europe, and so on. The book, unlike so many on modern military affairs, does not present …
The Anatomy of Deterrence
From the American point of view, the strategy of deterrence, and the related principle of limiting to tolerable proportions whatever conflicts become inevitable, tend to spring from the premise that the favorable results of a total war can never be sufficient to justify its cost. Such a war, according to that conception, would be too big, too allconsuming, to permit the survival even of those final values, like personal freedom, for which alone o…
A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Woodrow Wilson
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More about Limited War
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Some Notes On The Evolution of Air Doctrine
Military strategy is of all the human sciences at once the most ancient and the least developed. It could hardly be otherwise. Its votaries must be men of decision and action rather than of theory. Victory is the payoff, and is regarded as the most telling confirmation of correct judgment. There is no other science where judgments are tested in blood and answered in the servitude of the defeated, where the supreme authority is the leader who has …
Nuclear Weapons
Military Demonstration and Disclosure of New Weapons
Military demonstrations could conveniently be classified according to objective under two major headings: (a) those intended primarily to convey purpose or intention, and (b) those intended primarily to convey capability. The latter type is generally free of the political risks which often attend the former. Both types, but especially the former, may be effected without necessarily disclosing new advances in the use, design, or performance of wea…
Strategy as a Science
THE recent resignations from posts of high civil authority or ceremonial rank of former military officers will no doubt allay somewhat the suspicions current a year or more ago that the military were “moving in” where they did not belong. Although the original appointment to civil posts of such men as Generals George C. Marshall and Walter B. Smith was hardly due to design on the part of the armed services, being quite easily and plausibly explai…
The Service of Supply
How Strong Is Britain
THE power of England was so long regarded as a great and fixed quantity that the spectacle of its undeniable decline is as confusing as it is disturbing. The star which shone so brightly is now revealed as a nova in descent, but we are at a loss to know what magnitude to ascribe to it. In referring to the world power constellation we still speak of the Big Three, but also of the Big Two. Similarly, we like the term bi-polar because it is arrestin…
The Atom Bomb as Policy Maker
Strategy as a Science
THE recent resignations from posts of high civil authority or ceremonial rank of former military officers will no doubt allay somewhat the suspicions current a year or more ago that the military were “moving in” where they did not belong. Although the original appointment to civil posts of such men as Generals George C. Marshall and Walter B. Smith was hardly due to design on the part of the armed services, being quite easily and plausibly explai…
The Anatomy of Deterrence
From the American point of view, the strategy of deterrence, and the related principle of limiting to tolerable proportions whatever conflicts become inevitable, tend to spring from the premise that the favorable results of a total war can never be sufficient to justify its cost. Such a war, according to that conception, would be too big, too allconsuming, to permit the survival even of those final values, like personal freedom, for which alone o…
The Development of Nuclear Strategy
I That concept was put forward almost at once at the beginning of the nuclear age that is still the dominant concept of nuclear strategy-deterrence. It fell to me-few other civilians at the time were interested in military strategy-to publish the first analytical paper on the military implications of nuclear weapons. Entitled Atomic Bomb and American Security, it appeared in the autumn of 1945 as No. 18 of the occasional papers of what was then t…
On the Objectives of Arms Control
The volume of literature on arms control contrasts sharply with the dearth of results in actual armaments limitation or control. This huge disparity between fullness of advice and leanness of practical results suggests a good deal about both the character of that advice and the magnitude of the practical difficulties-and especially about the failure of the former to adjust to the latter. The ample quantity of the writing on arms control in the fa…
Why Were We So (Strategically) Wrong
More about Limited War
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Military Demonstration and Disclosure of New Weapons
Military demonstrations could conveniently be classified according to objective under two major headings: (a) those intended primarily to convey purpose or intention, and (b) those intended primarily to convey capability. The latter type is generally free of the political risks which often attend the former. Both types, but especially the former, may be effected without necessarily disclosing new advances in the use, design, or performance of wea…
On Clausewitz
We are especially indebted to the author of this book because of the extraordinary paucity of biographies of the great man who is its subject. As the British military historian, Michael Howard, says in the foreword: “Clausewitz as a man remains almost completely unknown.” And again: “As yet mere has appeared no serious biography in English and for this reason alone Roger Parkinson's book breaks important new ground
A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Woodrow Wilson
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Some Notes On The Evolution of Air Doctrine
Military strategy is of all the human sciences at once the most ancient and the least developed. It could hardly be otherwise. Its votaries must be men of decision and action rather than of theory. Victory is the payoff, and is regarded as the most telling confirmation of correct judgment. There is no other science where judgments are tested in blood and answered in the servitude of the defeated, where the supreme authority is the leader who has …
Nuclear Weapons
The Atomic Dilemma
IN BOOK VI of Paradise Lost, the Angel Raphael is recounting to Adam the story of the war Heaven which resulted the fall of Satan and his followers. After a day of fighting, Raphael relates, the issue is still doubt, although the rebellious angels have received the more horrid injury. Gathered round their campfire that night, their leaders consider how they may overcome their disadvantage. Satan is persuaded that their inferiority is one of weapo…
Conventional capabilities in Europe
The Atom Bomb as Policy Maker
New Tests of Sea and Air Power
Essay| October 01 1941 New Tests of Sea and Air Power Bernard Brodie Bernard Brodie Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1941) 1.1941 (2): 97–108. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1941.1.2.97 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Bernard Bro…
Sea Power in the Machine Age
Journal Article Sea Power in the Machine Age. By Bernard Brodie. (Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1941. viii + 466 pp. $3.75.) Get access Charles Lee Lewis Charles Lee Lewis U. S. Naval Academy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 28, Issue 2, September 1941, Page 273, https://doi.org/10.2307/1896246 Published: 01 September 1941
The American Maritime Industries and Public Policy, 1789-1914
The Armed Forces of the Pacific
Sea Power in the Pacific, 1936-1941
Queen of the Flat-Tops
A Guide to Naval Strategy
A Guide to Naval Strategy
Then There Was One
New Tactics in Naval Warfare
The Absolute Weapon
The Atomic Dilemma
IN BOOK VI of Paradise Lost, the Angel Raphael is recounting to Adam the story of the war Heaven which resulted the fall of Satan and his followers. After a day of fighting, Raphael relates, the issue is still doubt, although the rebellious angels have received the more horrid injury. Gathered round their campfire that night, their leaders consider how they may overcome their disadvantage. Satan is persuaded that their inferiority is one of weapo…
How Strong Is Britain
THE power of England was so long regarded as a great and fixed quantity that the spectacle of its undeniable decline is as confusing as it is disturbing. The star which shone so brightly is now revealed as a nova in descent, but we are at a loss to know what magnitude to ascribe to it. In referring to the world power constellation we still speak of the Big Three, but also of the Big Two. Similarly, we like the term bi-polar because it is arrestin…
The Atom Bomb as Policy Maker
Strategy as a Science
THE recent resignations from posts of high civil authority or ceremonial rank of former military officers will no doubt allay somewhat the suspicions current a year or more ago that the military were “moving in” where they did not belong. Although the original appointment to civil posts of such men as Generals George C. Marshall and Walter B. Smith was hardly due to design on the part of the armed services, being quite easily and plausibly explai…
The Service of Supply
Military Demonstration and Disclosure of New Weapons
Military demonstrations could conveniently be classified according to objective under two major headings: (a) those intended primarily to convey purpose or intention, and (b) those intended primarily to convey capability. The latter type is generally free of the political risks which often attend the former. Both types, but especially the former, may be effected without necessarily disclosing new advances in the use, design, or performance of wea…
Nuclear Weapons
Some Notes On The Evolution of Air Doctrine
Military strategy is of all the human sciences at once the most ancient and the least developed. It could hardly be otherwise. Its votaries must be men of decision and action rather than of theory. Victory is the payoff, and is regarded as the most telling confirmation of correct judgment. There is no other science where judgments are tested in blood and answered in the servitude of the defeated, where the supreme authority is the leader who has …
A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Woodrow Wilson
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More about Limited War
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Strategy in the Missile Age
Strategy in the Missile Age first reviews the development of modern military strategy to World War II, giving the reader a reference point for the radical rethinking that follows, as Dr. Brodie considers the problems of the Strategic Air Command, of civil defense, of limited war, of counterforce or pre-emptive strategies, of city-busting, of missile bases in Europe, and so on. The book, unlike so many on modern military affairs, does not present …
The Anatomy of Deterrence
From the American point of view, the strategy of deterrence, and the related principle of limiting to tolerable proportions whatever conflicts become inevitable, tend to spring from the premise that the favorable results of a total war can never be sufficient to justify its cost. Such a war, according to that conception, would be too big, too allconsuming, to permit the survival even of those final values, like personal freedom, for which alone o…
The possibility of total war
Conventional capabilities in Europe
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