Defence Planning for Small and Middle Powers: Rethinking Force Development in an Age of Disruption [Paperback]

1. Introduction? 2. Australia: The Limits of Pragmatism? 3. The Contours of Singapore's Defence Planning: Rethinking Deterrence, Defence Diplomacy, and Resilience? 4. Israels Innovation as a Main Pillar of Defence Planning??5. Finlands Defence Planning in Times of Geopolitical Disruption: Never Again Alone??6. Retail Path-Dependence: Indonesias Post-Authoritarian Defence Planning? 7. Emirati defence planning: The overriding importance of the political-cultural system? 8. Leveraging Dependencies: Defence Planning in the Sultanate of Oman? 9. Turkey: Rising or a Falling Star?? 10. Defence Planning in the Netherlands? 11. Becoming a Good Ally: Slovak Defence Planning Since Independence? 12. Canada and Force Planning: From Making a Virtue of Necessity to the Necessity of Virtue? 13. Conclusion

This book examines the processes, practices and principles of defence planning in small and middle powers.

'This is a fascinating bookone built around a conceptual structure and implemented with well chosen, contrasting case studies.  It begins with recognition that small and medium size countries do defense planning, but go about it very differently than great powers because their outlook, ambitions , global recognition, dependencies, and available resources tend to differ substantially from great powers.  That said, how do they go about it?  They encounter dilemmas and contradictions, including some relating to self-image.  What happens varies across the cases (Australia, Canada, Finland, Indonesia, Israel, Netherlands, Oman, Singapore, Slovakia, and the United Arab Emirates).  As both scholars and practitioners will appreciate, the differences reflect objective matters such as geography, size, and resources, but also the nations history, culture, personalities, and politics,. Commonalities can be found, as can rules of thumb ablö