The Making of Strategy: Rulers, States, and WarCambridge University Press, 1996 M05 31 - 680 pages Moving beyond the limited focus of the individual strategic theorist or the great military leader, The Making of Strategy concentrates instead on the processes by which rulers and states have formed strategy. Seventeen case studies--from the fifth century B.C. to the present--analyze through a common framework how strategists have sought to implement a coherent course of action against their adversaries. This fascinating book considers the impact of such complexities as the geographic, political, economic and technical forces that have driven the transformation of strategy since the beginning of civilization and seem likely to alter the making of strategy in the future. |
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Contents
Introduction On strategy | 1 |
Athenian strategy in the Peloponnesian War | 24 |
The strategy of a warriorstate Rome and the wars against Carthage 264201 BC | 56 |
Chinese strategy from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries | 85 |
The making of strategy in Habsburg Spain Philip IIs bid for mastery 15561598 | 115 |
The origins of a global strategy England from 1558 to 1713 | 151 |
A quest for glory The formation of strategy under Louis XIV 16611715 | 178 |
To the edge of greatness The United States 17831865 | 205 |
The road to ideological war Germany 19181945 | 352 |
The collapse of empire British strategy 19191945 | 393 |
The strategy of innocence? The United States 19201945 | 428 |
The illusion of security France 19191940 | 466 |
Strategy for class war The Soviet Union 19171941 | 498 |
The evolution of Israeli strategy The psychology of insecurity and the quest for absolute security | 534 |
Strategy in the nuclear age The United States 19451991 | 579 |
Conclusion Continuity and revolution in the making of strategy | 614 |
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The Making of Strategy: Rulers, States, and War Williamson Murray,Alvin Bernstein,MacGregor Knox No preview available - 1996 |
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