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245 04 $aThe Making of strategy :$brulers, states, and war /$c[edited by] Williamson Murray, MacGregor Knox, Alvin Bernstein.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c1994.
263 $a9408
300 $axiv, 680 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $a1. Introduction: On strategy / Williamson Murray and Mark Grimsley -- 2. Athenian strategy in the Peloponnesian War / Donald Kagan -- 3. The strategy of a warrior-state: Rome and the wars against Carthage, 264-201 B.C. / Alvin H. Bernstein -- 4. Chinese strategy from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries / Arthur Waldron -- 5. The making of strategy in Habsburg Spain: Philip II's "bid for mastery," 1556-1598 / Geoffrey Parker -- 6. The origins of a global strategy: England from 1558 to 1713 / William S. Maltby -- 7. A quest for glory: The formation of strategy under Louis XIV, 1661-1715 / John A. Lynn -- 8. To the edge of greatness: The United States, 1783-1865 / Peter Maslowski -- 9. Strategic uncertainties of a nation-state: Prussia-Germany, 1871-1918 / Holger H. Herwig -- 10. The weary titan: Strategy and policy in Great Britain, 1890-1918 / John Gooch -- 11. The strategy of the decisive weight: Italy, 1882-1922 / Brian R. Sullivan.
505 8 $a12. The road to ideological war: Germany, 1918-1945 / Wilhelm Deist -- 13. The collapse of empire: British strategy, 1919-1945 / Williamson Murray -- 14. The strategy of innocence? The United States, 1920-1945 / Eliot A. Cohen -- 15. The illusion of security: France, 1919-1940 / Robert A. Doughty -- 16. Strategy for class war: The Soviet Union, 1917-1941 / Earl F. Ziemke -- 17. The evolution of Israeli strategy: The psychology of insecurity and the quest for absolute security / Michael I. Handel -- 18. Strategy in the nuclear age: The United States, 1945-1991 / Colin S. Gray -- 19. Conclusion: Continuity and revolution in the making of strategy / MacGregor Knox.
520 $aMost writing about strategy - the balancing of ends and means by rulers and states in conflict with their adversaries - has focused on individual strategic theorists or great military leaders. That approach has its uses, but it normally ignores the messy process through which rulers and states have actually framed strategy.
520 8 $aUnderstanding how that process has worked or failed to work in the past is nevertheless of vital practical importance to strategists, and of the greatest interest to students of strategy and statecraft.
520 8 $aThe Making of Strategy is about the strategic process. It consists of seventeen case studies that range from fifth-century B.C. Athens and Ming China to Hitler's Germany, Israel, and the post-1945 United States. The studies analyze, within a common interpretive framework, precisely how rulers and states have made strategy. The introduction emphasizes the constants in the rapidly shifting world of the strategist.
520 8 $aThe conclusion tries to understand the forces that have driven the transformation of strategy since 400 B.C. and seem likely to continue to transform it in the future.
650 0 $aStrategy$vCase studies.
700 1 $aMurray, Williamson.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82136068
700 1 $aKnox, MacGregor.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81096744
700 1 $aBernstein, Alvin H.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77006221
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