Strategy for chaos : revolutions in military affairs and the evidence of history / Colin S. Gray ; with a foreword by Williamson Murray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gray, Colin S.

Series:

Strategy and History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Strategy.

Military art and science.

Military history, Modern--Case studies.

Military history, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

19th ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Portland, OR : Frank Cass, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this volume, Professor Colin Gray develops and applies the theory and scholarship on the allegedly historical practice of the 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA), in order to improve our comprehension of how and why strategy 'works'.The author explores the RMA hypothesis both theoretically and historically. The book argues that the conduct of an RMA has to be examined as a form of strategic behaviour, which means that, of necessity, it must ""work"" as strategy works. The great RMA debate of the 1990s is reviewed empathetically, though sceptically, by the author, with every major

Contents:

Book Cover; Half-title; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 High Concept; 2 RMA Anatomy: Patterns in History?; 3 RMA Dynamics; 4 On Strategy, I: Chaos Confounded?; 5 On Strategy, II: The RMA Connection; 6 Case Study I: The Napoleonic RMA; 7 Case Study II: The RMA of the First World War; 8 Case Study III: The Nuclear RMA; 9 Strategy as a Duel: RMA Meets the Enemy; Select Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-135-75475-6

1-135-75476-4

1-280-24222-1

0-203-33925-8

9786610242221

9780203339251

OCLC:

475907442