| Description |
xvi, 751 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 633-717) and index. |
| Contents |
Part I: Origins -- Origins 1: Evolution -- Origins 2: The Bible -- Origins 3: The Greeks -- Sun Tzu and Machiavelli -- Satan's strategy -- Part II: Strategies of force -- The new science of strategy -- Clausewitz -- The false science -- Annihilation or exhaustion -- Brain and brawn -- The indirect approach -- Nuclear games -- The rationality of irrationality -- Guerrilla warfare -- Observation and orientation -- The revolution in military affairs -- The myth of the master strategist -- Part III: Strategy from below -- Marx and a strategy for the working class -- Herzen and Bakunin -- Revisionists and vanguards -- Bureaucrats, democrats, and elites -- Formulas, myths, and propaganda -- The power of nonviolence -- Existential strategy -- Black power and white anger -- Frames, paradigms, discourses, and narratives -- Race, religion, and elections -- Part IV: Strategy from above -- The rise of the management class -- The business of business -- Management strategy -- Business as war -- The rise of economics -- Red queens and blue oceans -- The sociological challenge -- Deliberate or emergent -- Part V: Theories of strategy -- The limits of rational choice -- Beyond rational choice -- Stories and scripts. |
| Summary |
Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking, in a consistently engaging and insightful account of how strategy came to pervade every aspect of our lives. |
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Strategy -- History.
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Military history.
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Strategic culture.
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Strategic planning.
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| ISBN |
9780199325153 (hardback : acid-free paper) |
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0199325154 (hardback : acid-free paper) |
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