Strategy The Logic of War and Peace, Revised and Enlarged Edition

Name: Strategy The Logic of War and Peace, Revised and Enlarged Edition
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ISBN: 9780674007031

ISBN-10: 0674007034

ISBN-13: 9780674007031

Edition: 2nd 2001

Authors: Edward N. Luttwak

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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…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 1/31/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.13" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Edward N. Luttwak is a Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.



Preface



The Logic of Strategy



The Conscious Use of Paradox in War



The Logic in Action



Efficiency and the Culminating Point of Success



The Coming Together of Opposites



The Levels of Strategy



The Technical Level



The Tactical Level



The Operational Level



Theater Strategy I: Military Options and Political Choices



Theater Strategy II: Offense and Defense



Theater Strategy III: Interdiction and the surprise Attack



Nonstrategies: Naval, Air, Nuclear



The Renaissance of Strategic Air Power



Outcomes: Grand Strategy



The Scope of Grand Strategy



Armed Suasion



Harmony and Disharmony in War



Can Strategy Be Useful?



Definitions of Strategy



The Gulf War Air Campaign



Instant Thunder


Notes


Works Cited


Index