1 option
The shaping of grand strategy : policy, diplomacy, and war / edited by Williamson Murray, Richard Hart Sinnreich, James Lacey.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Strategy--History--18th century.
- Strategy.
- Strategy--History--19th century.
- Strategy--History--20th century.
- Strategic culture--Case studies.
- Strategic culture.
- Europe--Politics and government--18th century.
- Europe.
- Europe--Politics and government--19th century.
- Europe--Politics and government--20th century.
- United States--Politics and government.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 283 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Within a variety of historical contexts, The Shaping of Grand Strategy addresses the most important tasks states have confronted: namely, how to protect their citizens against the short-range as well as long-range dangers their polities confront in the present and may confront in the future. To be successful, grand strategy demands that governments and leaders chart a course that involves more than simply reacting to immediate events. Above all, it demands they adapt to sudden and major changes in the international environment, which more often than not involves the outbreak of great conflicts but at times demands recognition of major economic, political, or diplomatic changes. This collection of essays explores the successes as well as failures of great states attempting to create grand strategies that work and aims at achieving an understanding of some of the extraordinary difficulties involved in casting, evolving and adapting grand strategy to the realities of the world.
- Contents:
- Thoughts on grand strategy / Williamson Murray
- The grand strategy of the grand siècle : learning from the wars of Louis XIV / John A. Lynn II
- Strategic culture and the Seven Years' War / Jeremy Black
- Strategy as character : Bismarck and the Prusso-German question, 1862-1878 / Marcus Jones
- About turn : British strategic transformation from Salisbury to Grey / Richard Hart Sinnreich
- British grand strategy, 1933-1942 / Williamson Murray
- Toward a strategy : creating an American strategy for global war, 1940-1943 / James Lacey
- Harry S. Truman and the forming of American grand strategy in the Cold War, 1945-1953 / Colin S. Gray
- Patterns of grand strategy / Richard Hart Sinnreich.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-139-06346-4
- 1-107-21665-6
- 1-283-11102-0
- 9786613111029
- 1-139-07579-9
- 0-511-97418-3
- 1-139-08262-0
- 1-139-08035-0
- 1-139-07805-4
- 1-139-07004-5
- OCLC:
- 723945750
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.