Rethinking American grand strategy
Introduction / Christopher McKnight Nichols and Andrew Preston -- Getting grand strategy right : clearing away common fallacies in the grand strategy debate / Hal Brands -- The blob and the mob : on grand strategy and social change / Beverly Gage -- Turning the tide : the applic…
Rethinking American grand strategy
What is grand strategy ? What does it aim to achieve? And what differentiates it from normal strategic thought--what, in other words, makes it "grand"? In answering these questions, most scholars have focused on diplomacy and warfare, so much so that "grand strategy" has become …
Rethinking American grand strategy
"In recent years, historians and other scholars have offered useful definitions, most of which coalesce around the notion that grand strategy is an amplification of the "normal" strategic practice of deploying various means to attain specific ends. "The crux of grand strategy," …
This book examines the strategies pursued by the Colonies and the other combatants in the American War for Independence, placing the conflict in its proper global context.Many do not realize the extent to which the 1775 colonial rebellion against British rule escalated into a gl…
"This book examines the strategies pursued by the Colonies and the other combatants in the American War for Independence, placing the conflict in its proper global context. Many do not realize the extent to which the 1775 colonial rebellion against British rule escalated into a …
This book examines the strategies pursued by the Colonies and the other combatants in the American War for Independence, placing the conflict in its proper global context.
This provocative challenge to US policy and strategy maintains that America endures endless wars because its leaders no longer know how to think about war.
