The Evolution Of Modern Grand Strategic Thought

Author : Lukas Milevski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191085475

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The Evolution of Modern Grand Strategic Thought by Lukas Milevski Pdf

In strategic studies and international relations, grand strategy is a frequently-invoked concept. Yet, despite its popularity, it is not well understood and it has many definitions, some of which are even mutually contradictory. This state of affairs undermines its usefulness for scholars and practitioners alike. Lukas Milevski aims to remedy this situation by offering a conceptual history of grand strategy in the English language, analysing its evolution from 1805 to the present day in the writings of its major proponents. In doing so, he seeks to clarify the meaning and role of the concept, both theoretically and practically, and shed light on its continuing utility today.

Author : The International Institute for Strategic Studies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 703 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134046034

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The Evolution of Strategic Thought by The International Institute for Strategic Studies Pdf

This volume provides an understanding of the evolution of strategic thinking since the Adelphi Papers began during the Cold War. These papers are important both in terms of the intellectual contribution they made at the time, and their enduring value in shedding light even on today's security challenges.

Author : Kanti Bajpai,Saira Basit,V. Krishnappa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317559610

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India’s Grand Strategy by Kanti Bajpai,Saira Basit,V. Krishnappa Pdf

As India prepares to take its place in shaping the course of an ‘Asian century’, there are increasing debates about its ‘grand strategy’ and its role in a future world order. This timely and topical book presents a range of historical and contemporary interpretations and case studies on the theme. Drawing upon rich and diverse narratives that have informed India’s strategic discourse, security and foreign policy, it charts a new agenda for strategic thinking on postcolonial India from a non-Western perspective. Comprehensive and insightful, the work will prove indispensable to those in defence and strategic studies, foreign policy, political science, and modern Indian history. It will also interest policy-makers, think-tanks and diplomats.

Author : Thierry Balzacq,Ronald R. Krebs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192576620

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The Oxford Handbook of Grand Strategy by Thierry Balzacq,Ronald R. Krebs Pdf

A clearly articulated, well-defined, and relatively stable grand strategy is supposed to allow the ship of state to steer a steady course through the roiling seas of global politics. However, the obstacles to formulating and implementing grand strategy are, by all accounts, imposing. The Oxford Handbook of Grand Strategy addresses the conceptual and historical foundations, production, evolution, and future of grand strategy from a wide range of standpoints. The seven constituent sections present and critically examine the history of grand strategy, including beyond the West; six distinct theoretical approaches to the subject; the sources of grand strategy, ranging from geography and technology to domestic politics to individual psychology and culture; the instruments of grand strategy's implementation, from military to economic to covert action; political actors', including non-state actors', grand strategic choices; the debatable merits of grand strategy, relative to alternatives; and the future of grand strategy, in light of challenges ranging from political polarization to technological change to aging populations. The result is a field-defining, interdisciplinary, and comparative text that will be a key resource for years to come.

Author : Philip Goodall
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781499087604

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The History of Strategic Thought by Philip Goodall Pdf

Author : Beatrice Heuser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139492560

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The Evolution of Strategy by Beatrice Heuser Pdf

Is there a 'Western way of war' which pursues battles of annihilation and single-minded military victory? Is warfare on a path to ever greater destructive force? This magisterial account answers these questions by tracing the history of Western thinking about strategy - the employment of military force as a political instrument - from antiquity to the present day. Assessing sources from Vegetius to contemporary America, and with a particular focus on strategy since the Napoleonic Wars, Beatrice Heuser explores the evolution of strategic thought, the social institutions, norms and patterns of behaviour within which it operates, the policies that guide it and the cultures that influence it. Ranging across technology and warfare, total warfare and small wars as well as land, sea, air and nuclear warfare, she demonstrates that warfare and strategic thinking have fluctuated wildly in their aims, intensity, limitations and excesses over the past two millennia.

Author : Patrick M. Cronin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0415459613

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Author : Beatrice Heuser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Strategy
ISBN : 051186048X

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The Evolution of Strategy by Beatrice Heuser Pdf

"Is there a 'Western way of war' which pursues battles of annihilation and single-minded military victory? Is warfare on a path to ever greater destructive force? This magisterial new account answers these questions by tracing the history of Western thinking about strategy - the employment of military force as a political instrument - from antiquity to the present day. Assessing sources from Vegetius to contemporary America, and with a particular focus on strategy since the Napoleonic Wars, Beatrice Heuser explores the evolution of strategic thought, the social institutions, norms and patterns of behaviour within which it operates, the policies that guide it and the cultures that influence it. Ranging across technology and warfare, total warfare and small wars as well as land, sea, air and nuclear warfare, she demonstrates that warfare and strategic thinking have fluctuated wildly in their aims, intensity, limitations and excesses over the past two millennia"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Harry R. Yarger
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Military doctrine
ISBN : 9781428916227

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Strategic Theory for the 21st Century: The Little Book on Big Strategy by Harry R. Yarger Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : PURD:32754085147324

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Parameters by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Lewis Gaddis
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780525557296

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On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis Pdf

“The best education in grand strategy available in a single volume . . . a book that should be read by every American leader or would-be leader.”—The Wall Street Journal A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary program the author has co-taught at Yale for decades John Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian of the Cold War, has for almost two decades co-taught grand strategy at Yale University with his colleagues Charles Hill and Paul Kennedy. Now, in On Grand Strategy, Gaddis reflects on what he has learned. In chapters extending from the ancient world through World War II, Gaddis assesses grand strategic theory and practice in Herodotus, Thucydides, Sun Tzu, Octavian/Augustus, St. Augustine, Machiavelli, Elizabeth I, Philip II, the American Founding Fathers, Clausewitz, Tolstoy, Lincoln, Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Isaiah Berlin. On Grand Strategy applies the sharp insights and wit readers have come to expect from Gaddis to times, places, and people he’s never written about before. For anyone interested in the art of leadership, On Grand Strategy is, in every way, a master class.

Author : A. Wess Mitchell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691196442

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The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire by A. Wess Mitchell Pdf

The Habsburg Empire's grand strategy for outmaneuvering and outlasting stronger rivals in a complicated geopolitical world The Empire of Habsburg Austria faced more enemies than any other European great power. Flanked on four sides by rivals, it possessed few of the advantages that explain successful empires. Yet somehow Austria endured, outlasting Ottoman sieges, Frederick the Great, and Napoleon. A. Wess Mitchell tells the story of how this cash-strapped, polyglot empire survived for centuries in Europe's most dangerous neighborhood without succumbing to the pressures of multisided warfare. He shows how the Habsburgs played the long game in geopolitics, corralling friend and foe alike into voluntarily managing the empire's lengthy frontiers and extending a benign hegemony across the turbulent lands of middle Europe. The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire offers lessons on how to navigate a messy geopolitical map, stand firm without the advantage of military predominance, and prevail against multiple rivals.

Author : Elizabeth Borgwardt,Christopher McKnight Nichols,Andrew Preston
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190695668

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Rethinking American Grand Strategy by Elizabeth Borgwardt,Christopher McKnight Nichols,Andrew Preston Pdf

What is grand strategy ? What does it aim to achieve? And what differentiates it from normal strategic thought--what, in other words, makes it "grand"? In answering these questions, most scholars have focused on diplomacy and warfare, so much so that "grand"? In answering these questions, most scholars have focused on diplomacy and warfare, so much so that "grand strategy" has become almost an equivalent of "military history." The traditional attention paid to military affairs is understandable, but in today's world it leaves out much else that could be considered political, and therefore strategic. Just as contemporary world politics is driven by a wide range of non-military issues, the most thorough considerations of grand strategy must consider the bases of peace and security--including gender, race, the environment, and a wide range of cultural, social, political, and economic issues. Rethinking American Grand Strategy assembles a roster of leading historians to examine America's place in the world. Its innovative chapters re-examine familiar figures, such as John Quincy Adams, George Kennan, and Henry Kissinger, while also revealing the forgotten episodes and hidden voices of American grand strategy. They expand the scope of diplomatic and military history by placing the grand strategies of public health, race, gender, humanitarianism, and the law alongside military and diplomatic affairs to reveal hidden strategists as well as strategies. --

Author : Thierry Balzacq,Peter Dombrowski,Simon Reich
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192577542

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Comparative Grand Strategy by Thierry Balzacq,Peter Dombrowski,Simon Reich Pdf

This book develops a new approach in explaining how a nation's Grand Strategy is constituted, how to assess its merits, and how grand strategies may be comparatively evaluated within a broader framework. The volume responds to three key problems common to both academia and policymaking. First, the literature on the concept of grand strategy generally focuses on the United States, offering no framework for comparative analysis. Indeed, many proponents of US grand strategy suggest that the concept can only be applied, at most, to a very few great powers such as China and Russia. Second, characteristically it remains prescriptive rather than explanatory, ignoring the central conundrum of why differing countries respond in contrasting ways to similar pressures. Third, it often understates the significance of domestic politics and policymaking in the formulation of grand strategies - emphasizing mainly systemic pressures. This book addresses these problems. It seeks to analyze and explain grand strategies through the intersection of domestic and international politics in ten countries grouped distinctively as great powers (The G5), regional powers (Brazil and India) and pivotal powers hostile to each other who are able to destabilize the global system (Iran, Israel, and Saudi Arabia). The book thus employs a comparative framework that describes and explains why and how domestic actors and mechanisms, coupled with external pressures, create specific national strategies. Overall, the book aims to fashion a valid, cross-contextual framework for an emerging research program on grand strategic analysis.

Author : William D. James
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198896623

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British Grand Strategy in the Age of American Hegemony by William D. James Pdf

Is the United Kingdom capable of grand strategy? Common wisdom suggests otherwise. Some think it implausible amid the maelstrom of domestic politics, while others believe the UK lacks the necessary autonomy, as a cog in the US-led order. British Grand Strategy in the Age of American Hegemony challenges these claims. William D. James contends that grand strategy is an unavoidable part of governing. Grand strategy is the highest level of national security decision-making, encompassing judgements over a state's overarching objectives and interests, as well as its security environment and resource base. Getting these decisions 'right' is vital in moments of geopolitical flux. Employing several historical case studies between 1940-2003 and marshalling a host of primary sources, James argues that British politicians and officials have thought in grand strategic terms under American hegemony - even if they do not realise or admit to this. He also demonstrates that the role of allies in shaping British grand strategy has been overstated. Finally, James highlights the conditions under which domestic political actors can influence grand strategic decision-making. Written for practitioners as well as scholars, the book concludes with several policy recommendations at this inflection point in British history.