TY - BOOK AU - Finkel,Meir AU - Tlamim,Moshe ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - On flexibility: recovery from technological and doctrinal surprise on the battlefield AV - UA10 .F5413 2011 U1 - 355.02 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Stanford, Calif. PB - Stanford Security Studies KW - Military readiness KW - Military doctrine KW - Military art and science KW - Surprise (Military science) KW - Military history, Modern KW - 20th century KW - Technology KW - Military aspects KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Prediction and intelligence : the dominant approach in force planning and its failure to answer the challenge of technological and doctrinal surprise -- Conceptual and doctrinal flexibility -- Organizational and technological flexibility -- Cognitive and command and control (C2) flexibility -- The mechanism for lesson learning and rapid dissemination -- The German recovery from the surprise of British chaff -- The German recovery from the Soviet T-34 tank surprise -- The Israeli recovery from the Egyptian Sagger missile surprise -- The Israeli air force recovery from the Arab anti-aircraft missile surprise -- The slow British recovery from the German armor and anti-tank tactics -- The slow Soviet recovery from the surprise of low-intensity conflict in Afghanistan -- The French failure to recover from the surprise of the German blitzkrieg; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=683265 ER -