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"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."
- Robertson Davies
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ZIN Product Number: 10143819
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 Format: Paperback, 704 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521566274
Release Date: Jan 3, 1996
| |  | | | In Brief
This edited collection of essays "is about the strategic process. It consists of seventeen case studies that range from fifth-century B.C. Athens and Ming China to Hitler's Germany, Israel, and the post-1945 United States. The studies analyze, within a common interpretive framework, . . . how rulers and states have made strategy." (Publisher's note) Index.
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Most writing about strategy - the balancing of ends and means by rulers and states in conflict with their adversaries - has focused on individual strategic theorists or great military leaders. That approach has its uses, but it normally ignores the messy process through which rulers and states have actually framed strategy. Understanding how that process has worked or failed to work in the past is nevertheless of vital practical importance to strategists, and of the greatest interest to students of strategy and statecraft. The Making of Strategy is about the strategic process. It consists of seventeen case studies that range from fifth-century B.C. Athens and Ming China to Hitler's Germany, Israel, and the post-1945 United States. The studies analyze, within a common interpretive framework, precisely how rulers and states have made strategy. The introduction emphasizes the constants in the rapidly shifting world of the strategist. The conclusion tries to understand the forces that have driven the transformation of strategy since 400 B.C. and seem likely to continue to transform it in the future.
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| | | | | | The Reader's Catalog
Seventeen case studies analyze how strategists have sought to implement a course of action against their adversaries
| |  | | | | Contributors | | | Acknowledgments | | | List of illustrations and tables | | | 1 | Introduction: On strategy | 1 | | 2 | Athenian strategy in the Peloponnesian War | 24 | | 3 | The strategy of a warrior-state: Rome and the wars against Carthage, 264-201 B.C. | 56 | | 4 | Chinese strategy from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries | 85 | | 5 | The making of strategy in Habsburg Spain: Philip II's "bid for mastery," 1556-1598 | 115 | | 6 | The origins of a global strategy: England from 1558 to 1713 | 151 | | 7 | A quest for glory: The formation of strategy under Louis XIV, 1661-1715 | 178 | | 8 | To the edge of greatness: The United States, 1783-1865 | 205 | | 9 | Strategic uncertainties of a nation-state: Prussia-Germany, 1871-1918 | 242 | | 10 | The weary titan: Strategy and policy in Great Britain, 1890-1918 | 278 | | 11 | The strategy of the decisive weight: Italy, 1882-1922 | 307 | | 12 | The road to ideological war: Germany, 1918-1945 | 352 | | 13 | The collapse of empire: British strategy, 1919-1945 | 393 | | 14 | The strategy of innocence? The United States, 1920-1945 | 428 | | 15 | The illusion of security: France, 1919-1940 | 466 | | 16 | Strategy for class war: The Soviet Union, 1917-1941 | 498 | | 17 | The evolution of Israeli strategy: The psychology of insecurity and the quest for absolute security | 534 | | 18 | Strategy in the nuclear age: The United States, 1945-1991 | 579 | | 19 | Conclusion: Continuity and revolution in the making of strategy | 614 | | Index | 647 |
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