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Routledge Handbook of Strategic Culture
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Routledge Handbook of Strategic Culture

by Kerry M. Kartchner, Briana D. Bowen, Jeannie L. Johnson
October 2023
Intermediate to advanced
570 pages
24h 55m
English
Routledge
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2 The Conceptual Heritage of Strategic Culture and Collective Mentality

Beatrice Heuser

DOI: 10.4324/9781003010302-3

This chapter gives a survey of two hugely important conceptual aids to understanding an adversary, but also our allies, and ourselves: “strategic culture” and “collective mentality.” This discussion needs to be prefaced with a methodological point. Neither of these concepts pretends to be an “independent variable.” Much to the contrary, both are highly dependent on many, many other variables, which themselves are in part interdependent. There is no way any of these concepts could be packaged into a neat physics or chemistry formula spelling out that “whenever A, then B.” Such neat rules governing the natural sciences can rarely, ...

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