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"Strategy Dynamics explores the concept of adaptation in strategic decision-making through detailed engagement with professional military education at various war colleges and three in-depth case studies of major strategic reversals by the United States, France, and former Czechoslovakia. After introducing a novel process-oriented model of strategic decision-making that highlights the positive effect of friction on strategy adaptation, the author uses process tracing to analyse factors at the individual, domestic, and international levels that enabled and triggered three important strategic U-turns. It examines President Ronald Reagan's decision to withdraw U.S. Marines from Lebanon in 1984, François Mitterrand's reversal of his original plan for the French exit from the European Monetary System in 1983, and Václav Havel's strategic pivot towards North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) membership for Czechoslovakia in 1991. The research draws on declassified and previously unavailable documents, as well as interviews with key figures involved in these strategic decisions, providing unique insights into the complexities of strategic decision-making and the process of strategy adaptation. The book frames strategy as a dynamic process, continuously evolving in response to changing circumstances, rather than as a fixed plan. In doing so, Strategy Dynamics fills a critical gap in the literature by focusing on factors that drive strategy adaptation. It is a comprehensive study of the conditions that contribute to open societies' ability to adapt their strategies more effectively."--Publisher.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-199) and index.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]