Institutionalizing supreme command
Explaining political-military integration in the Vietnam War, 1964-1968
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5723968 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Spencer D Bakich (0009-0002-5737-6044, Sweet Briar College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 688-711 |
| Publication date | 2011-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Small Wars and Insurgencies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0959-2318 • E-ISSN: 1743-9558 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09592318.2011.599172 |
| OpenAlex | W1974152999 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 29 |
Under what conditions can leaders achieve wartime political–military integration? In the Vietnam War, political–military integration exhibited dramatic variation: in the air war, the US was able to tightly integrate its political objectives and military conduct, but in the ground war, the American military prosecuted a strategy that was both divorced from broader political objectives and was immune from Washington's influence. I argue that the nature of information management between the military and civilian leadership explains the pattern of political–military integration in the Vietnam War more completely than do explanations that focus on the organizational cultures of professional militaries
Military operations other than war · Military science · Military sociology · Military strategy · Military theory · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Revolution in Military Affairs · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Vietnam War · Law · Military History and Strategy · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
Supreme Command
Human inference
Between Peace and War
The Army and Vietnam
Essence of Decision
Presidential decisionmaking in foreign policy
Managing Global Chaos
In the Crossfire or the Crosshairs? Norms, Civilian Casualties, and U.S. Conduct in Iraq
The Chinese Threat in the Vietnam War
A Time for War
Strategy in Vietnam
Information, Incentives and Bargaining in the Japanese Economy
Information and Organizations
Strategy in Vietnam
In Retrospect
The Vietnam War, 1964-1969
Reading and Warning the Likely Enemy
Intervention
American Tragedy
Dereliction of Duty
Cooperation under fire
A Time for War
Vietnam
Intervention
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |