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The Practice of Strategy - From Alexander the Great to the Present (Hardcover)
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The Practice of Strategy - From Alexander the Great to the Present (Hardcover)
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The Practice of Strategy focuses on grand strategy and military
strategy as practiced over an extended period of time and under
very different circumstances, from the campaigns of Alexander the
Great to insurgencies and counter-insurgencies in present-day
Afghanistan and Iraq. It presents strategy as it pertained not only
to wars, campaigns, and battles, but also to times of peace that
were over-shadowed by the threat of war. The book is intended to
deepen understanding of the phenomena and logic of strategy by
reconstructing the considerations and factors that shaped imperial
and nation-state policies.
Through historical case studies, the book sheds light on a
fundamental question: is there a unity to all strategic experience?
Adopting the working definition of strategy as 'the art of winning
by purposely matching ends, ways and means, ' these chapters deal
with the intrinsic nature of war and strategy and the
characteristics of a particular strategy in a given conflict. They
show that a specific convergence of political objectives,
operational schemes of manoeuvre, tactical moves and countermoves,
technological innovations and limitations, geographic settings,
transient emotions and more made each conflict studied unique. Yet,
despite the extraordinary variety of the people, circumstances, and
motives discussed in this book, there is a strong case for
continuity in the application of strategy from the olden days to
the present.
Together, these chapters reveal that grand strategy and military
strategy have elements of continuity and change, art and science.
They further suggest that the element of continuity lies in the
essential nature of strategy and war, while the element of change
lies in the character of individual strategies and wars.
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