Evolution of Modern Grand Strategic Thought

Zusatztext In addition to providing its intellectual history, Milevski offers a clear, compelling critique of grand strategic thinking...an extremely timely, efficient work on grand strategy that I believe will greatly improve the quality of debate aboutand appreciation forthe subject. Informationen zum Autor Lukas Milevski is a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford's Changing Character of War Programme, and is a Smith Richardson Strategy and Policy Fellow. He received his PhD from the University of Reading in 2014, and he is the author of numerous articles the on historical and contemporary practice and theory of strategy. He received the 2010 RUSI Trench Gascoigne Essay Competition first prize as one of the youngest winners in its history. Klappentext This volume provides an historical overview of the evolution of grand strategic thought. Zusammenfassung This volume provides an historical overview of the evolution of grand strategic thought. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction, or the Mythology of Grand Strategy Part 1: Early Grand Strategic Thought 1: Antediluvian Grand Strategic Thought 2: The Maritime Origins of Modern Grand Strategic Thought 3: Grand Strategy as British Reactions to Great Wars 4: Grand Strategy as American Reactions to Great Wars Part 2: The Fall and Rise of Grand Strategy 5: Cold War Strategic Thought and Grand Strategy 6: Grand Strategic Thought Eclipsed 7: The Reemergence of Grand Strategic Thought 8: Post-Cold War Grand Strategic Thought Conclusion, or Thinking Theoretically About Grand Strategy

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• Authors: Lukas Milevski, Lukas (Research Fellow Milevski, Milevski Lukas
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.06.2016
• EAN: 9780198779773
• ISBN: 978-0-19-877977-3
• No. of pages: 186
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Internationale Beziehungen, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, military history, Politics / Current Events, HISTORY / Military / Strategy, International Relations, Defence strategy, planning & research, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Military and defence strategy