Making of Strategy Rulers, States, and War

Name: Making of Strategy Rulers, States, and War
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ISBN: 9780521566278

ISBN-10: 0521566274

ISBN-13: 9780521566278

Edition: 1996

Authors: Williamson Murray, MacGregor Knox, Alvin Bernstein

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Most writing about strategy has focused on individual strategic theorists or great military leaders. This book focuses instead on the messy processes by which rulers and states have framed strategy in the past - a subject of vital practical importance to strategists, and of great interest to students of strategy and statecraft. It consists of 17 case studies that range from fifth-century Athens and Ming China to Hitler's Germany, Israel, and the post-1945 United States. The studies analyse, within a common interpretive framework, precisely how rulers and states have made strategy. The introduction emphasises the constants in the rapidly shifting world of the strategist; the concluding essay…

Book details

List price: $40.99
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/31/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 704
Size: 5.87" wide x 8.94" long x 1.42" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English

Williamson Murray is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Defense Analysis, Washington, D.C.



Introduction: on strategy




Athenian strategy in the Peloponnesian War




The strategy of a warrior state: Rome and the wars against Carthage, 264-201 BC




Chinese strategy from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries




The making of strategy in Habsburg Spain: Philip II's 'bid for mastery', 1556-1598




The origins of a global strategy: England to 1713 William S. Maltby



A quest for glory: the formation of strategy under Louis XIV, 1661-1715




To the edge of greatness: the United States, 1783-1865




Strategic uncertainties of a nation state: Prussia-Germany, 1871-1918




The weary titan: strategy and policy in Great Britain, 1890-1918




The strategy of the decisive weight: Italy, 1882-1992




The road to ideological war: Germany, 1918-1945




The collapse of empire: British strategy, 1919-1945




The strategy of innocence? The United States, 1920-1945




The illusion of security: France, 1919-1940




Strategy for class war: the Soviet Union, 1917-1941




The evolution of Israeli strategy: the psychology of insecurity and the quest for absolute security




Strategy in the Nuclear Age: the United States, 1945-1991



Conclusion: continuity and revolution in the making of strategy