Strategy
A History
(Sprache: Englisch)
Winner: W. J. M. Mackenzie Book Prize
One of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics synthesizes the vast history of strategy's evolution in this consistently engaging and surprising account of how it came to pervade every aspect of life.
One of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics synthesizes the vast history of strategy's evolution in this consistently engaging and surprising account of how it came to pervade every aspect of life.
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Winner: W. J. M. Mackenzie Book Prize
One of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics synthesizes the vast history of strategy's evolution in this consistently engaging and surprising account of how it came to pervade every aspect of life.
One of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics synthesizes the vast history of strategy's evolution in this consistently engaging and surprising account of how it came to pervade every aspect of life.
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One of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics synthesizes the vast history of strategy's evolution in this consistently engaging and surprising account of how it came to pervade every aspect of life.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Strategy “
- DEDICATION
- PREFACE
- Part I ORIGINS
- 1 ORIGINS 1: EVOLUTION
- 2 ORIGINS 2: THE BIBLE
- 3 ORIGINS 3: THE GREEKS
- 4 SUN TZU AND MACHIAVELLI
- 5 SATAN'S STRATEGY
- Part II STRATEGIES OF FORCE
- 6 THE NEW SCIENCE OF STRATEGY
- 7 CLAUSEWITZ
- 8 THE FALSE SCIENCE
- 9 ANNIHILATION OR EXHAUSTION
- 10 BRAIN AND BRAWN
- 11 THE INDIRECT APPROACH
- 12 NUCLEAR GAMES
- 13 THE RATIONALITY OF IRRATIONALITY
- 14 GUERRILLA WARFARE
- 15 OBSERVATION AND ORIENTATION
- 16 THE REVOLUTION IN MILITARY AFFAIRS
- 17 THE MYTH OF THE MASTER STRATEGIST
- PART III STRATEGY FROM BELOW
- 18 MARX AND A STRATEGY FOR THE WORKING CLASS
- 19 HERZEN AND BAKUNIN
- 20 REVISIONISTS AND VANGUARDS
- 21 BUREAUCRATS, DEMOCRATS, and ELITES
- 22 FORMULAS, MYTHS, AND PROPAGANDA
- 23 THE POWER OF NONVIOLENCE
- 24 EXISTENTIAL STRATEGY
- 25 BLACK POWER AND WHITE ANGER
- 26 FRAMES, PARADIGMS, DISCOURSES, AND NARRATIVES
- 27 RACE, RELIGION, AND ELECTIONS
- PART IV STRATEGY FROM ABOVE
- 28 THE RISE OF THE MANAGEMENT CLASS
- 29 THE BUSINESS OF BUSINESS
- 30 MANAGEMENT STRATEGY
- 31 BUSINESS AS WAR
- 32 THE RISE OF ECONOMICS
- 33 RED QUEENS AND BLUE OCEANS
- 34 THE SOCIOLOGICAL CHALLENGE
- 35 DELIBERATE OR EMERGENT
- PART V theories of strategy
- 36 THE LIMITS OF RATIONAL CHOICE
- 37 BEYOND RATIONAL CHOICE
- 38 STORIES AND SCRIPTS
- 37 BEYOND RATIONAL CHOICE
- 38 STORIES AND SCRIPTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Autoren-Porträt von Lawrence Freedman
Lawrence Freedman has been Professor of War Studies at King's College London since 1982, and Vice-Principal since 2003. Elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1995 and awarded the CBE in 1996, he was appointed Official Historian of the Falklands Campaign in 1997. He was awarded the KCMG in 2003. In June 2009 he was appointed to serve as a member of the official inquiry into Britain and the 2003 Iraq War. Professor Freedman has written extensively on nuclear strategy and the cold war, as well as commentating regularly on contemporary security issues. His most recent book, A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East, won the 2009 Lionel Gelber Prize and Duke of Westminster Medal for Military Literature.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Lawrence Freedman
- 2013, 768 Seiten, Maße: 16,3 x 24,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199325154
- ISBN-13: 9780199325153
- Erscheinungsdatum: 26.09.2013
Sprache:
Englisch
Rezension zu „Strategy “
A marvelous grand tour of the meaning, implications, and consequences of strategic thinking through the ages and in multiple contexts. Freedman is a master of the subject and unsurpassed in his ability to unravel the twists and turns of strategic complexities and paradoxes. |s Robert Jervis, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics, Columbia University |d 01/06/2013
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[Strategy: A History] elegantly synthesises strands of thought. RUSI Journal
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