The Cambridge History of Strategy

A global history of the practice of strategy across three millennia with contributions from leading subject experts.

This global history of strategy explores how leaders of different social groups, civilisations, empires and states have practised strategy over the course of three millennia. With contributions written by leading experts in each subject, the Cambridge History of Strategy offers new perspectives on the history of strategy.The Cambridge History of Strategy presents a global history exploring of how leaders of social groups, civilisations, empires and states have practiced strategy over the course of the past three millennia. With contributions from leading experts in each subject, these volumes analyse a series of notable case studies to reflect on the formulation and application of strategy rather than on theory. Transcending the traditional Western focus and modern-state-based framework of strategic studies, this Cambridge History offers the inclusion of a wider range of political actors and cases from parts of the world hitherto largely excluded from the literature. This leads to a discussion of whether central claims in the field of strategic studies that the practice of strategy exhibits universal features that apply always holds up against empirical evidence from different centuries and cases beyond the West.