{"product_id":"the-collaborative-fight-pursuing-jointness-in-the-us-military-hardback-9780700636211","title":"The Collaborative Fight; Pursuing Jointness in the US Military (Hardback) 9780700636211","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Collaborative Fight\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePursuing Jointness in the US Military\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePaul R. Birch (Author), Lina M. Svedin (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780700636211\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 9 February 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e344 pages, 8 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.272 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This unique study will be of great value to scholars and defense practitioners alike, particularly in staff and war colleges where there is always a need for rigorous, relevant, and informative case studies. Birch and Svedin offer penetrating insights why in the past the US military either failed to achieve jointness or to sustain if it was achieved for a time. This is a timely book that will challenge assumptions, fuel arguments, and do tremendous good for the joint force.\"—J. P. Clark, author of \u003ci\u003ePreparing for War: The Emergence of the Modern U.S. Army, 1815––1917\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Collaborative Fight\u003c\/i\u003e provides one of the only scholarly treatments of a word that dominates life in the million-person trillion-dollar defense industry: jointness. Since the Goldwater-Nichols reforms of 1986, jointness has been the coin of the realm for the US military, whether aspirationally or actually. Matters of budget, operations, doctrine, and education all esteem jointness as a predominant virtue—yet there is little robust understanding of what it is or why it is so difficult to achieve and sustain. Birch and Svedin offer a strong theoretical and empirical treatment of the subject, with novel case studies and appropriately eclectic theoretical antecedents. In short, far too little is known about a ubiquitous Pentagon buzzword—this book helps bridge the gap.\"—Jeffrey Donnithorne, Colonel (Ret.), USAF, and author of \u003ci\u003eFour Guardians: A Principled-Agent View of American Civil-Military Relations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe beautiful picture of brothers in arms vanquishing a tyrant. The power of a well-orchestrated army and navy winning historic battles. Overwhelming military might and ability through teamwork. This is how the US military services portray themselves to the public and to their own service members through official doctrine. However, under the veneer of jointness, deeply fraught processes are at play. Frequently, the services think more about protecting organizational turf than about national security and maintaining an advantage against the United States’ external adversaries. Uniting US military services is a difficult endeavor that becomes even more so the farther from a battlefield and the higher up the command structure the unifying needs to happen.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Collaborative Fight\u003c\/i\u003e, Paul R. Birch and Lina M. Svedin examine cases of institutional jointness among US military services from the late nineteenth century into the twenty-first century. They draw actionable conclusions for practitioners in the defense establishment while giving examples of successful joint cooperation that overcame the difficulties inherent in pursuing it. Even the successful cases that Birch and Svedin discuss show that the US military services face bureaucratic incentives and organizational leadership issues that make battlefield cooperation less than ideal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBirch and Svedin adeptly translate theory and history into approaches useful to practitioners in the field while examining the theoretical framework outlining the drivers in joint military cooperation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Tables\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeries Editor’\u003cbr\u003es Foreword\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Acronyms and Abbreviations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. The Collaborative Fight: US Armed Services’\u003cbr\u003e Ambivalent Relationship to Jointness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. Factors in Organizational Collaboration and Success Cases\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. The Army and Air Force Collaborate on AirLand Battle, 1973–\u003cbr\u003e1991\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. Cooperation in Peacetime: The Joint Primary Aviation Training System, 1988–\u003cbr\u003ePresent\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. Air Support in Counterinsurgency, 2001–\u003cbr\u003e2012\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. Joint All-Domain Command and Control\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7. An Empirically Informed Theory of Jointness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion: Jointness Is a Collaborative Fights\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendix. Research Method and Case-Study Selection Criteria\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReference List\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"University Press of Kansas","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52702127948056,"sku":"9780700636211","price":31.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-collaborative-fight-pursuing-jointness-in-the-us-military-hardback-9780700636211","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}