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Scott Gartner’s (1997) book Strategic Assessment in War offered a
very fruitful and pertinent advance. He proposed that during war organizations measure
their levels of success with dominant quantitative indicators such as tons of shipping sunk
or enemy killed in action.
Gartner (1997), for example, proposes that states
switch strategies when they observe significant changes in quantitative military
indicators. Notably, this general dynamic challenges the assumption of current models
that the likelihood of a side winning a battle is the same for all battles throughout the war.
Strategic Assessment in War.

Gartner, Scott Sigmund.
New Haven, Conn.: Yale Univ. Press, 1997. 177pp. $32.50


One of the most vital yet difficult tasks a wartime commander must perform is strategic assessment. Are his actions working? Is he winning? Scott Sigmund Gartner, a political scientist at the University of California, approaches this problem from an interesting angle. He argues that......

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