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Informationen zum Autor John Andreas Olsen is Visiting Professor of Operational Art and Tactics at the Swedish National Defence College. Previously, he was the Dean of the Norwegian Defence University College and Head of its division for Strategic Studies. He is an active-duty colonel in the Norwegian Air Force and a graduate of the German Command and Staff College (2005). Recent assignments include tours as the Norwegian liaison officer to the German Operational Command in Potsdam and as the military assistant to the attaché in Berlin. Olsen has a doctorate in history and international relations from De Montfort University, a master's degree in contemporary British literature and politics from the University of Warwick, and a master's degree in English from the University of Trondheim. He is deputy commander and chief of the NATO Advisory Team at NATO Headquarters, Sarajevo.Colin S. Gray is currently at the Department of International Politics and Strategic Studies at the University of Reading. He has written pioneering and controversial studies on nuclear strategy, arms control, maritime strategy, and geopolitics. He is the author of twenty books, more than 300 articles, and several dozen reports for governments. His most recent publications include Forty Maxims on War, Peace, and Strategy (2007) and The Strategy Bridge: Theory for Practice (2011). He is a strategic theorist and defence analyst at the University of Reading, he has worked in Britain, Canada, and the United States. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I: Ancient and Mediaeval 1: David J. Lonsdale: The Campaigns of Alexander the Great 2: Israel Shatzman: The Roman Republic: From Monarchy to Julius Caesar 3: Edward N. Luttwak: The Byzantine Empire: From Attila to the 4th Crusade 4: Anne Curry: The Hundred Years War, 1337-1453 Part II: Mediaeval and Modern 5: Gábor Ágoston: The Ottomans: From Frontier Principality to Empire 6: David Parrott: The Thirty Years War, 1618-1648 7: Jeremy Black: Britain and the 'Long' 18th Century, 1688-1815 8: Charles Esdaile: Britain and the Napoleonic Wars Part III: Modern and Contemporary 9: Williamson Murray: The American Civil War 10: Martin van Creveld: The First and Second World Wars 11: Colin S. Gray: The Nuclear Age and the Cold War 12: James D. Kiras: Modern Irregular Warfare: Afghanistan and Iraq Conclusion Selected Bibliography Index ...
