The Making Of Strategy: Rulers, States, And War (PDF)
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- Synopsis
- Most writing about strategy has focused on individual strategic theorists or great military leaders. This book focuses instead on the messy processes by which rulers and states have framed strategy in the past - a subject of vital practical importance to strategists, and of great interest to students of strategy and statecraft. It consists of 17 case studies that range from fifth-century Athens and Ming China to Hitler's Germany, Israel, and the post-1945 United States. The studies analyse, within a common interpretive framework, precisely how rulers and states have made strategy. The introduction emphasises the constants in the rapidly shifting world of the strategist; the concluding essay tries to understand the forces that have driven the transformation of strategy since 400 BC and seem likely to continue to transform it in the future.
- Copyright:
- 1996
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- ISBN-13:
- 9780521566278
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 10/10/17
- Copyrighted By:
- Cambridge University Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Military, Nonfiction
- Submitted By:
- Semanti Chakraborty
- Proofread By:
- N/A
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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