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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Glenn, Russell W
• RUSSELL W. GLENN

Titel

A bias for action?: The military as an element of national power

Ist Teil von

• New Directions in Strategic Thinking 2. 0, 2018, p.37

Ort / Verlag

Australia: ANU Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Australia’s military instils in its members a ‘can-do’ culture with a bias for action, inculcated early in the careers of virtually all officers and enlisted personnel. This ethos seeks both to ensure that opportunities are seized and to avoid the more common historical peril of inaction. This instinct serves us well on the battlefield; it can be be of less benefit at the operational and strategic levels where consequences of decisions tend to be more far-reaching. This bias is not merely a military concern. The public can also demonstrate a bias for action without due consideration of the broader political