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Strategy - The Logic of War and Peace, Revised and Enlarged Edition (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Strategy - The Logic of War and Peace, Revised and Enlarged Edition (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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"If you want peace, prepare for war." "A buildup of offensive
weapons can be purely defensive." "The worst road may be the best
route to battle." Strategy is made of such seemingly
self-contradictory propositions, Edward Luttwak shows-they
exemplify the paradoxical logic that pervades the entire realm of
conflict. In this widely acclaimed work, now revised and expanded,
Luttwak unveils the peculiar logic of strategy level by level, from
grand strategy down to combat tactics. Having participated in its
planning, Luttwak examines the role of air power in the 1991 Gulf
War, then detects the emergence of "post-heroic" war in Kosovo in
1999-an American war in which not a single American soldier was
killed. In the tradition of Carl von Clausewitz, Strategy goes
beyond paradox to expose the dynamics of reversal at work in the
crucible of conflict. As victory is turned into defeat by
over-extension, as war brings peace by exhaustion, ordinary linear
logic is overthrown. Citing examples from ancient Rome to our own
days, from Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor down to minor combat
affrays, from the strategy of peace to the latest operational
methods of war, this book by one of the world's foremost
authorities reveals the ultimate logic of military failure and
success, of war and peace.
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