Category: Strategy

By P. Neumann

Britain's lengthy conflict assesses the method of strategic swap in the British Government's place on Northern eire, beginning with Westminster's first intervention in 1969 and finishing with the Belfast contract in 1998. Drawing on an enormous diversity of basic assets together with lately published cupboard papers, Peter Neumann analyzes the goals, method and restraints of British coverage in Northern eire.

By Charles Stephenson

Following the autumn of France and the give up of Paris on 14 June 1940, the British executive introduced that the Channel Islands had no strategic significance and wouldn't be defended. The Germans occupied the islands from the top of June onwards and remained on top of things until eventually the top of the struggle. On 10 October 1941 Hitler introduced his purpose to 'convert them into an impregnable fortress', and the islands shaped the main seriously fortified and defended portion of the whole Atlantic Wall. This e-book describes the layout, development and manning of those protective positions, in addition to contemplating extra generally the profession of the Channel Islands via the Germans.

By Marius Alfs

Durch die explizite Berücksichtigung der Merkmale einer Konzernstrategie im Entscheidungs- und Bewertungskalkül passt Marius Alfs erstmals das Instrumentarium des Controllings an die company process an, um bei der Entscheidungsfindung im Konzernmanagement zweckadäquate Hilfestellung zu leisten. Dazu analysiert und kategorisiert er zunächst die in der Theorie existierenden Konzernstrategien und entwickelt hierauf abgestimmte Planungsrechnungen. Daran anknüpfend zeigt er auf, wie Verfahren der Unternehmensbewertung sowie Investitionslehre zur am Konzernwert orientierten Evaluierung der Kapitalallokation und Konfiguration des Konzernportfolios eingesetzt werden können. Hierbei integriert der Autor auch Methoden der Risikoaggregation durch Monte-Carlo-Simulation und der Risikobewertung, so dass ein umfassendes examine- und Bewertungsinstrumentarium für das strategische Konzerncontrolling entsteht. So demonstriert der Verfasser, wie eine examine der Wertquellen des Konzernwerts und die Quantifizierung von Wertkomponenten erfolgen können.

By Williamson Murray

Profitable concepts is an engaging new research of the main elements that experience contributed to the improvement and execution of profitable recommendations all through background. With a group of best historians, Williamson Murray and Richard Hart Sinnreich learn how, and to what influence states, participants and army corporations have stumbled on an answer to complicated and likely insoluble strategic difficulties to arrive good fortune. Bringing jointly grand, political and army process, the ebook positive aspects 13 essays which each and every explores a different case or point of technique. the point of interest levels from participants corresponding to Themistocles, Bismarck and Roosevelt to organisations and bureaucratic responses. no matter if discussing grand method in peacetime or that of struggle or politics, those case stories are unified by way of their universal target of picking out in each one case the main elements that contributed to good fortune in addition to delivering insights necessary to any figuring out of the strategic demanding situations of the longer term.

By Nic Fields

Just like the nice wall of china, Hadrian's wall used to be a feat to construct and maintian opposed to marrauding barberians. It used to be breached and rebuilt many time until eventually it grew to become to some extent the place it could actually no longer lengthy be maintianed. you will know about how they lived and policed the wall. If historical Rome is you liking, you are going to love the distinctive informaiton.

By Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton

By Thomas R. Trautmann

Due to their huge, immense measurement, elephants have lengthy been impossible to resist for kings as symbols in their eminence. In early civilizations—such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Civilization, and China—kings used elephants for royal sacrifice, staggering hunts, public demonstrate of reside captives, or the conspicuous intake of ivory—all of them tending towards the elephant’s extinction. The kings of India, besides the fact that, as Thomas R. Trautmann indicates during this research, chanced on a use for elephants that truly helped guard their habitat and numbers within the wild: war.
Trautmann strains the historical past of the conflict elephant in India and the unfold of the establishment to the west—where elephants took half in a number of the maximum wars of antiquity—and Southeast Asia (but no longer China, significantly), a historical past that spans 3,000 years and a substantial a part of the globe, from Spain to Java. He exhibits that simply because elephants devour such substantial amounts of nutrients, it used to be uneconomic to elevate them from delivery. particularly, in a different type of domestication, Indian kings captured wild adults and proficient them, one after the other, via millennia. Kings have been hence forced to guard wild elephants from hunters and elephant forests from being shrink. via taking a wide-angle view of human-elephant family, Trautmann throws into reduction the constitution of India’s environmental historical past and the explanations for the endurance of untamed elephants in its forests.

By T.R. Fehrenbach

By William S. Pintz, Hermina Morita

This ebook files the socio-environmental context and early historical past of Hawaii's try to alternative renewable strength resources and effort potency measures for oil imports. It identifies components of coverage formula the place fresh power innovations have been potent and components the place the state's coverage technique used to be both beside the point or limited by means of political or institutional factors.

Although Hawaii's fresh strength Initiative is a special partnership, formulated to fulfill Hawaii's particular wishes and assets, the coverage approach addressed difficulties which are universal open air the country. whereas the case examine includes fresh strength guidelines, a number of the matters are acceptable to public coverage improvement issues in different sectors. Examples of those "general curiosity" coverage issues include:

• figuring out how the political and socioeconomic weather may possibly impression coverage assumptions

• formulating a regulatory and felony framework for tracking coverage compliance

• designing and knowing the consequences of subsidy and tax-incentive policies

• coping with conflicts with rules in different sectors;

• addressing the pursuits of latest and destiny stakeholders;

• developing innovations for public session and data dissemination;

• utilizing exterior services from executive organisations, educational associations and personal consultants;

• designing functionality and overview metrics for measuring progress.

The booklet is meant to be used in graduate and senior undergraduate classes facing the formula, implementation and impression of public coverage. It additionally presents researchers keen on the advance and implementation of fresh strength with a advisor to the hurdles more likely to be encountered in relocating innovation from the technical sphere to the sensible genuine global and the way to beat them. specialist policymakers could benefit from an instance of a approach to create a practicable fresh strength policy.

By David Ian Hall

Procedure for Victory: the advance of British Tactical Air energy, 1919-1943 examines the character of the inter-Service hindrance among the British military and the RAF over the supply of potent air help for the military within the moment international warfare. fabric for this booklet is drawn basically from the wealthy choice of files on the nationwide files (UK) and different British information. the writer makes a hugely unique element that Britain's self reliant RAF was once in reality a disguised blessing for the military and that the air force's independence used to be partially a key this is because a winning strategy to the army's air aid difficulties used to be discovered. The research lines why the British military went to warfare in 1939 with no enough air aid and the way an efficient procedure of aid used to be prepared by way of the RAF. As such, it's the first scholarly survey of the origins and improvement of British air help doctrine and perform in the course of the early years of the second one international War.The provision of direct air help was once of important value to the good fortune loved via Anglo-American armies in the course of the latter 1/2 the second one international warfare. First in North Africa, and later in Italy and North-West Europe, American, British and Empire armies fought such a lot if now not all in their battles with the information that they loved unassailable air superiority during the conflict region. This virtue, in spite of the fact that, was once the made of an extended and sour dispute among the British military and the Royal Air strength that begun on the finish of the 1st international struggle and persisted almost unabated until eventually it was once resolved in overdue 1942 and early 1943 while the 2d Tactical Air strength used to be created. Battlefield adventure and, specifically, luck in North Africa, mixed with the labor, knowledge and perseverance of Air Marshals Sir Arthur Tedder and Arthur Coningham, the lively co-operation of common Bernard Montgomery, and the political authority of best Minister Winston Churchill, produced a uniquely British procedure that afforded the main entire, potent and versatile air aid supplied by means of any air strength throughout the conflict. The booklet is split into equivalent components of 5 chapters. half one surveys how the British military went to struggle in 1939 with no sufficient air aid, and half explains how a good process of air help was once equipped via the center years of the struggle. The research lines Britain's earliest adventure with plane within the nice conflict 1914-1918, the inter-war interval of doctrinal improvement and inter-Service competition, and the main campaigns in France and the center East in the course of the first 1/2 the second one international battle whilst the weaknesses in Army-RAF co-operation have been first uncovered and at last resolved. As such, it's the first scholarly survey of the starting place and improvement of British air aid doctrine and perform through the early years of the second one international struggle.