TY  - BOOK
AU  - BROOKS Risa A
TI  - Shaping strategy: the civil-military politics of strategic assessment 
SN  - 9780691136684 (pbk) :
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Princeton NJ
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - CIVIL MILITARY RELATIONS
KW  - STRATEGY
N2  - Why are some states good at stretegic assessment  while others are so very bad? Using various examples (the difference between Egypt under Nasser and under Sadat; Britain and Germany in First World War; Pakistan and Turkey in 1990s; U.S. post-conflict planning for Iraq War 2003) this book argues that the quality of a state's civil military relations are a critically important factor
ER  -