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Biddle, Stephen Duane was born on January 19, 1959 in Wilmington, Delaware, United States. Son of Robert Duane and Blanche Virginia Biddle.
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Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle
( In war, do mass and materiel matter most? Will states w...)
In war, do mass and materiel matter most? Will states with the largest, best equipped, information-technology-rich militaries invariably win? The prevailing answer today among both scholars and policymakers is yes. But this is to overlook force employment, or the doctrine and tactics by which materiel is actually used. In a landmark reconception of battle and war, this book provides a systematic account of how force employment interacts with materiel to produce real combat outcomes. Stephen Biddle argues that force employment is central to modern war, becoming increasingly important since 1900 as the key to surviving ever more lethal weaponry. Technological change produces opposite effects depending on how forces are employed; to focus only on materiel is thus to risk major error--with serious consequences for both policy and scholarship. In clear, fluent prose, Biddle provides a systematic account of force employment's role and shows how this account holds up under rigorous, multimethod testing. The results challenge a wide variety of standard views, from current expectations for a revolution in military affairs to mainstream scholarship in international relations and orthodox interpretations of modern military history. Military Power will have a resounding impact on both scholarship in the field and on policy debates over the future of warfare, the size of the military, and the makeup of the defense budget.
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By Stephen Biddle - Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle (1st Edition) (6/23/06)
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{ MILITARY POWER: EXPLAINING VICTORY AND DEFEAT IN MODERN BATTLE } by Biddle, Stephen (AUTHOR) Jul-03-2006 Paperback
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Stephen Duane Biddle
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AB, Harvard College, 1981. Master in Public Policy, Harvard University, 1985. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1992.
Career
Consultant, research associate Institute Defense Analyses, Alexandria, Virginia, 1980—1987, research staff member, 1987—1997. Assistant professor political science University North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1997—2001. Associate professor national security studies United States Army War College Strategic Studies Institute, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 2001—2005, Rlihu Root chair military studies, 2006.
Senior fellow defense policy Council Foreign Relations, Washington, since 2006. Adjunct associate professor Columbia University, New York City, since 2005. Co-director Columbia University Summer Workshop on the Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy.
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Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle
( In war, do mass and materiel matter most? Will states w...)
- By Stephen Biddle - Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle (1st Edition) (6/23/06)
- { MILITARY POWER: EXPLAINING VICTORY AND DEFEAT IN MODERN BATTLE } by Biddle, Stephen (AUTHOR) Jul-03-2006 Paperback
- Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle by Biddle, Stephen (2006) Paperback
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Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle
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Member of Phi Beta Kappa.
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Married Tami Davis Biddle, April 9, 1988. 1 child Anna Emmaline.
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Presbyterian
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1981
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1992
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1980 - 1987
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Decorated Superior Civilian Service Medal United States Army, Superior Civilian Service medal, United States Army Commander’s award Multinational Force Iraq. Recipient Barchi prize, Military Operations Research Society, 1997, Impact award, 1999, Rist prize, 2000, Arthur Ross Book award, Council Foreign Relations, 2005, Huntington prize, Harvard University Olin Institute Strategic Studies, 2005, Koopman prize, Institute Operations Research and Management Science, 2005, Madigan award, United States Army War College, 2005.Decorated Superior Civilian Service Medal United States Army, Superior Civilian Service medal, United States Army Commander’s award Multinational Force Iraq. Recipient Barchi prize, Military Operations Research Society, 1997, Impact award, 1999, Rist prize, 2000, Arthur Ross Book award, Council Foreign Relations, 2005, Huntington prize, Harvard University Olin Institute Strategic Studies, 2005, Koopman prize, Institute Operations Research and Management Science, 2005, Madigan award, United States Army War College, 2005.