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Freedman, Lawrence.
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Strategy -- History.
Military history.
Strategic culture.
Strategic planning.
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Strategy : a history...
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Strategy : a history / Lawrence Freedman.
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Freedman, Lawrence.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.
Subjects
Strategy -- History.
Military history.
Strategic culture.
Strategic planning.
ISBN:
9780199325153 (hardback : acid-free paper) :
0199325154 (hardback : acid-free paper)
Description:
xvi, 751 pages ; 25 cm
Contents:
Part I: Origins -- Origins 1: Evolution -- Origins 2: The Bible -- Origins 3: The Greeks -- Sun Tzu and Machiavelli -- Satan's strategy -- Part II: Strategies of force -- The new science of strategy -- Clausewitz -- The false science -- Annihilation or exhaustion -- Brain and brawn -- The indirect approach -- Nuclear games -- The rationality of irrationality -- Guerrilla warfare -- Observation and orientation -- The revolution in military affairs -- The myth of the master strategist -- Part III: Strategy from below -- Marx and a strategy for the working class -- Herzen and Bakunin -- Revisionists and vanguards -- Bureaucrats, democrats, and elites -- Formulas, myths, and propaganda -- The power of nonviolence -- Existential strategy -- Black power and white anger -- Frames, paradigms, discourses, and narratives -- Race, religion, and elections -- Part IV: Strategy from above -- The rise of the management class -- The business of business -- Management strategy -- Business as war -- The rise of economics -- Red queens and blue oceans -- The sociological challenge -- Deliberate or emergent -- Part V: Theories of strategy -- The limits of rational choice -- Beyond rational choice -- Stories and scripts.
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Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking, in a consistently engaging and insightful account of how strategy came to pervade every aspect of our lives.
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