Paul K. Davis
Autor(a) de 100 Decisive Battles: From Ancient Times to the Present
About the Author
Paul K. Davis teaches history at Texas Military Institute. He is the author of 100 Decisive Battles: From Ancient Times to the Present
Obras por Paul K. Davis
Masters of the Battlefield: Great Commanders From the Classical Age to the Napoleonic Era (2013) 29 exemplares
Measuring Capabilities in the Presence of Anti-Access Strategies: Exploratory Analysis to Inform Adaptive Strategy for… (2002) 3 exemplares
Motivated Metamodels: Synthesis of Cause-Effect Reasoning and Statistical Metamodeling (2002) 2 exemplares
Simple Models to Explore Deterrence and More General Influence in the War with al-Qaeda (2010) 2 exemplares
Defense planning for the post-Cold War era: giving meaning to flexibility, adaptiveness, and robustness of capability (1995) 1 exemplar
A computational model of public support for insurgency and terrorism : a prototype for more-general social-science… (2013) 1 exemplar
Finding Candidate Options for Investment: From Building Blocks to Composite Options and Preliminary Screening… (2008) 1 exemplar
Deterring or Coercing Opponents in Crisis: Lessons from the War With Saddam Hussein (R-4111-JS) (1991) 1 exemplar
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- Nacionalidade
- USA
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Paul K. Davis is a senior principal researcher at the RAND Corporation and a professor of policy analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His research interests include strategic planning and methods for improving it, decisionmaking theory, counterterrorism, advanced methods of analysis and modeling (notably exploratory analysis and multiresolution modeling), and heterogeneous information fusion. He has authored or coauthored widely read books on defense planning, capabilities-based planning, portfolio analysis, and deterrence and influence theory, as well as an integrative review on social science for counterterrorism. Before joining RAND, Davis was a senior executive in the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). He has served on numerous national panels for DoD, the National Academy, and the Intelligence Community; he is also a regular reviewer of several professional journals. Davis received his Ph.D. in theoretical chemical physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 30
- Membros
- 483
- Popularidade
- #51,118
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 4
- ISBN
- 76
- Línguas
- 1
The book does have some drawbacks. First, Davis assumes some historical education from the reader related to battles in general. While he is thorough in explaining historical background and personages, he typically does not explain any military battle language, such as the definition of a line, flank, a line getting 'extended', reserves, advances, and more detailed terms not easily guessed by the novice. Descriptions of types of ships or weapons is sometimes missing. Perhaps worst, maps showing landscape and movement are taken from other sources and are often not included. Perhaps just over half the battles have a map, and each one has a different set of symbols, and many maps have no Legend. So the maps themselves, without the legends, have to be guessed at. Finally, there's no sections describing certain techniques that one would find across a number of battles. Replacing some of the historical inset boxes with content about battle techniques that occur frequently would be better drawing the sometimes disjointed book together. Because the book is disjointed and battles have no tie together, the book becomes little more than a collection of Wikipedia 3 page profiles of 100 different battles.
All that said, plucking 100 battle profiles from Wikipedia is a lot of work, and this thick tome is a slow read heavy in history and interesting when taken one battle at a time.… (mais)