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The concept of strategic culture refers to a nation’s traditions, values, attitudes, patterns of behaviour, habits, symbols, achievements and particular ways of adapting to the environment and solving problems with respect to the threat or use of force.
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Jack Snyder, The Soviet Strategic Culture: Implications for Limited Nuclear Operations, Santa Monica, CA, Rand R-2154-AF, September 1977, p. v.
Colin S. Gray, Nuclear Strategy and National Style, Lanham, MD, Hamilton Press, 1986.
Charles Manning, quoted by Ken Booth, Strategy and Ethnocentrism, London, Croom Helm, 1979. p. 1.
See Ken Booth, ‘New Challenges and Old Mindsets: Ten Rules for Empirical Realists’, ch. 3 in C. G. Jacobsen (ed.) The Uncertain Course: New Weapons, Strategics and Mindsets, Oxford, OUP for SIPRI, 1987.
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Booth, K. (1990). The Concept of Strategic Culture Affirmed. In: Jacobsen, C.G. (eds) Strategic Power: USA/USSR. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20574-5_8
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