Shaping of Grand Strategy - Policy, Diplomacy, and War

Klappentext The successes as well as failures of great states attempting to create grand strategies that work. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Thoughts on grand strategy Williamson Murray; 2. The grand strategy of the Grand Siècle: learning from the wars of Louis XIV John A. Lynn II; 3. Strategic culture and the Seven Years' War Jeremy Black; 4. Strategy as character: Bismarck and the Prusso-German question, 1862-78 Marcus Jones; 5. About turn: British grand strategy from Salisbury to Grey Richard Hart Sinnreich; 6. British grand strategy, 1933-42 Williamson Murray; 7. Towards a strategy: creating an American strategy for global war, 1940-3 James Lacey; 8. Harry S. Truman and the forming of American grand strategy in the Cold War, 1945-53 Colin S. Gray; 9. Concluding thoughts Richard Hart Sinnreich.

Product details

• Authors: Williamson Murray, Williamson (Ohio State University) Sinnrei Murray, Williamson Sinnreich Murray
• Assisted by: James Lacey (Editor), Williamson Murray (Editor), Williamson (Ohio State University) Murray (Editor), Richard Hart Sinnreich (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.02.2011
• EAN: 9780521761260
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76126-0
• No. of pages: 294
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous