Strategy: A History, Freedman Sir Lawrence, Freedman Lawrence

Автор: Freedman Lawrence
Название: Strategy: A History
ISBN: 0199325154 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199325153
Издательство: Oxford Academ
Цена: 20840 T
Описание: Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013

In Strategy: A History, 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.

The range of Freedman's narrative is extraordinary, moving from the surprisingly advanced strategy practiced in primate groups, to the opposing strategies of Achilles and Odysseus in The Iliad, the strategic advice of Sun Tzu and Machiavelli, the great military innovations of Baron Henri de Jomini and Carl von Clausewitz, the grounding of revolutionary strategy in class struggles by Marx, the insights into corporate strategy found in Peter Drucker and Alfred Sloan, and the contributions of the leading social scientists working on strategy today. The core issue at the heart of strategy, the author notes, is whether it is possible to manipulate and shape our environment rather than simply become the victim of forces beyond one's control. Time and again, Freedman demonstrates that the inherent unpredictability of this environment-subject to chance events, the efforts of opponents, the missteps of friends-provides strategy with its challenge and its drama. Armies or corporations or nations rarely move from one predictable state of affairs to another, but instead feel their way through a series of states, each one not quite what was anticipated, requiring a reappraisal of the original strategy, including its ultimate objective. Thus the picture of strategy that emerges in this book is one that is fluid and flexible, governed by the starting point, not the end point.

A brilliant overview of the most prominent strategic theories in history, from David's use of deception against Goliath, to the modern use of game theory in economics, this masterful volume sums up a lifetime of reflection on strategy.

Автор: Echevarria Antulio J. II
Название: Military Strategy: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 0199340137 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199340132
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: This Very Short Introduction adapts Clausewitz`s framework to highlight the dynamic relationship between the main elements of strategy: purpose, method, and means. Drawing on historical examples, Echevarria discusses the major types of military strategy and how emerging technologies are affecting them.

Автор: Murray
Название: The Shaping of Grand Strategy
ISBN: 0521156335 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521156332
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Цена: 19170 T
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Описание: Grand strategy demands that governments and leaders chart a course that involves more than simply reacting to immediate events. It demands that they adapt to and plan for sudden and major changes in the international environment. This volume explores the successes and failures of these strategies.

Автор: Heuser
Название: The Evolution of Strategy
ISBN: 052115524X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521155243
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This magisterial account traces the history of Western thinking about strategy from antiquity to the present day. Assessing sources from Vegetius onwards, and with a particular focus on strategy since the Napoleonic Wars, Heuser explores themes ranging across land, sea, air, nuclear and total warfare.

Автор: Sloan Elinor C
Название: Modern Military Strategy
ISBN: 0415777712 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415777711
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
Цена: 20950 T
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Автор: Buchanan
Название: American Grand Strategy in the Mediterranean during World War II
ISBN: 1107044146 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107044142
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Цена: 75020 T
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Описание: This book argues that the United States had a powerful and sustained grand strategic approach to the countries of the Mediterranean during World War II and that, under the active leadership of Franklin Roosevelt, it attained substantial wartime and post-war advantage by pursuing this course.

Автор: Murray
Название: War, Strategy, and Military Effectiveness
ISBN: 1107614384 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107614383
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This collection of articles by Professor Williamson Murray examines the role that history should play in thinking about both the present and the future, proving that the study of military and strategic history can be useful in confronting the daunting problems of war and peace in the twenty-first century.

Автор: Spykman, Nicholas J.
Название: America`s strategy in world politics
ISBN: 1412806313 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781412806312
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Less than a year after the United States entered the Second World War, Nicholas Spykman wrote a book that placed the war effort in the broader context of the 1940s global balance of power

Автор: Lundstrom John B.
Название: The First South Pacific Campaign: Pacific Fleet Strategy December 1941 - June 1942
ISBN: 1591144175 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781591144175
Издательство: Eurospan
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Описание: On May 7 and 8, 1942, fast carrier task forces from the United States and Imperial Japanese navies met in combat for the first time in the Battle of the Coral Sea. A strategic victory for the U.S. in spite of the loss of the carrier Lexington, the destroyer Sims and the fleet oiler Neosho, the battle blunted the Japanese drive on Port Moresby, a valuable Allied air and naval base controlling the western Coral Sea and northern Australia. John B. Lundstrom offers a detailed analysis of the fundamental strategies employed by Japan and the U.S. in the South Pacific from January to June 1942, including Japanese equivocation regarding advances in the South Pacific and the vigorous actions of Admiral Ernest J. King to reinforce the area in spite of the presidential decision to concentrate American efforts on Europe and the problem of Germany. Writing in a clear, concise, and readable style, Lundstrom combines strategic insight and careful scholarship with previously untapped source materials to present a book that provides a superb overview of the first six months of the naval war in the South Pacific. First published in 1976, The First South Pacific Campaign is essential reading for a full understanding of the Pacific Fleet’s strategy before the Battle of Midway.