Description: Further DetailsTitle: A Sense of the EnemyCondition: NewFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 04/03/2014Subtitle: The High Stakes History of Reading Your Enemy's MindISBN-10: 0199987378EAN: 9780199987375ISBN: 9780199987375Publisher: Oxford University Press IncDescription: The ancient Chinese military philosopher Sun Tzu admonished his generals to "Know thy enemy." The question has always been how to do that. Too often military leaders have relied on simplistic methods for predicting the behavior of their adversaries-with disastrous results. In A Sense of the Enemy, Zachary Shore argues that successful leaders employ what he calls "strategic empathy," an ability to empathize with their opponents in order to anticipate how they will act. Wise leaders do not assume that rivals will act as they themselves would, but instead try to see into the unique internal constraints and drivers that shape an enemy's decision processes. Such leaders look not only for patterns, but more importantly for pattern breaks, those episodes when an opponent deviates from his usual behavior in a way that imposes long-term costs upon itself. They don't assume that past behavior always predicts future actions ("the continuity error") or that opponents have an unchanging character ("the fundamental attribution error"). Shore contrasts the empathic German Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann, for example, who accurately perceived Russian intentions in the 1920s, with Stalin's repeated failure to read Hitler's behavior in the 1940s. Stalin was so blinded by ideology and paranoia that he couldn't see the Nazis' evolving strategy, and paid dearly for it. Shore insists that leaders need to be flexible, able to shift views when the facts on the ground change. Yet leaders still fail. Highlighting famous examples of successes and failures from the history of international conflict, A Sense of the Enemy sheds important new light on today's crises, from the vexed US-China relationship to the Iraq fiasco and the Iran-Israel conflict.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 237mmItem Length: 163mmItem Width: 24mmAuthor: Zachary ShoreGenre: Law & PoliticsTopic: HistoryType: Communication StudiesItem Weight: 476gRelease Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Release Date: 04/03/2014
Release Year: 2014
Book Title: A Sense of the Enemy
Title: A Sense of the Enemy
Subtitle: The High Stakes History of Reading Your Enemy's Mind
ISBN-10: 0199987378
EAN: 9780199987375
ISBN: 9780199987375
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Law & Politics
Topic: History
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Name: Sense of the Enemy : the High Stakes History of Reading Your Rival's Mind
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2014
Subject: Military Science, Military / Strategy, General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16.8 Oz
Author: Zachary Shore
Subject Area: Technology & Engineering, History
Item Length: 9.3 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
