Introduction: The significance of strategic assessment
Explaining variation in strategic assessment
Egypt in the mid-1960s
Egypt in the 1970s
Britain and Germany and the First World War
Pakistan and Turkey in the late 1990s
U.S. postconflict planning for the 2003 Iraq War
Conclusion: Findings and implications.
Shaping strategy : the civil-military politics of strategic assessment by Risa Brooks. ISBN 9780691136684. Published by Princeton University Press in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.