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Undermanned, Undertrained, and Underequipped: Peacetime Military Preparation for Rapid Expansion
Undermanned, Undertrained, and Underequipped: Peacetime Military Preparation for Rapid Exp...
Undermanned, Undertrained, and Underequipped: Peacetime Military Preparation for Rapid Expansion

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자료유형  
 학위논문 서양
최종처리일시  
20260202104828
ISBN  
9798293802838
DDC  
355
저자명  
Gerstein, Sarah M.
서명/저자  
Undermanned, Undertrained, and Underequipped: Peacetime Military Preparation for Rapid Expansion
발행사항  
[Sl] : University of Pennsylvania, 2025
발행사항  
Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
형태사항  
270 p
주기사항  
Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-03, Section: A.
주기사항  
Advisor: Weisiger, Alex.
학위논문주기  
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2025.
초록/해제  
요약Military innovation literature touts new technologies and the adaptation that militaries make to successfully innovate. Military effectiveness literature examines how to make militaries more successful in combat. But many militaries spend years between wars, often without a clear understanding of the next major security threat. This dissertation examines how militaries can best spend limited budgets to most effectively prepare for rapid expansion. My central claim is that militaries that understand the state of the battlefield who update doctrine and spend effort to educate and train officers will be better prepared to more rapidly expand. Modern warfare is difficult, and each new conflict introduces novel technologies that must be integrated well and defended against to succeed in future combat. However, political constraints remain the same: politicians rarely seek to spend limited peacetime budgets preparing for war. Given the challenge of modern warfare, effective militaries have a clear and appropriate conception of what they want to do on the battlefield and can train and test officers and men in what they need to do. Therefore, building an effective peacetime officer corps focused on the central tasks for major peer warfare should be the single greatest priority. I test this theory using three historical case studies. For ease of comparison, I use the American Army, British Army, and German Army during the Interwar Period. Both the American and German Armies prioritized protecting their officer corps which could then form the kernel of a larger army when called upon. On the other hand, the British Army did not invest scarce resources into training and educating the officer corps. The findings help to understand the central puzzle of how militaries that are undermanned, underequipped, and undertrained can emerge successfully from periods without large scale combat. Variation in preparation can help to better understand why some militaries succeed and some fail on the battlefield. For policymakers, and military leaders, this dissertation suggests how to manage periods of budget scarcity, while still preparing for war.
일반주제명  
Military studies
일반주제명  
Political science
키워드  
Effectiveness
키워드  
Interwar period
키워드  
Organizational change
키워드  
Peacetime innovation
키워드  
Security
기타저자  
University of Pennsylvania Political Science
기본자료저록  
Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-03A.
전자적 위치 및 접속  
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