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  title info:
    title: Strategy dynamics
    sub title: changing course in open societies
  name:
    name part: Halas, Matus
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource : illustrations
  abstract: "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.
  target audience: Specialized.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Matus Halas.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-199) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Political planning
    topic: Decision making
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Strategy
  subject:
    topic: Military
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
  subject:
    topic: Military Science
  subject:
    topic: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
  subject:
    topic: Politics & government
  subject:
    topic: Politics and Government
  classification: JF1525.P6 H3 2025
  classification: 320.6
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    title info:
      title: Strategy dynamics
    name:
      name part: Halas, Matus.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]
    identifier: (DLC) 2024950429
    identifier: (OCoLC)1468299852
  identifier: 9780198951933
  identifier: 0198951930
  identifier: 0198951914
  identifier: 9780198951919
  identifier: 9780198951902
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: STBDS
    record creation date: 250120
    record change date: 20260319205721.1
    record identifier: in00005727917
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng