The Shaping of Grand Strategy
Policy, Diplomacy, and War
Williamson Murray editor James Lacey editor Richard Hart Sinnreich editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:14th Feb '11
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The successes as well as failures of great states attempting to create grand strategies that work.
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.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.
"The Shaping of Grand Strategy is important reading for anyone interested in shaping of wartime policy." -A. A. Nofi, StrategyPage
"Important reading for anyone interested in the shaping of wartime policy." -The NYMAS REVIEW
ISBN: 9780521156332
Dimensions: 226mm x 152mm x 20mm
Weight: 400g
294 pages