Creating Strategy: Rulers, States, and War

Author: (USA) Williamson Murray Alvin Bernstein (UK) McGreggor Knox
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Publish Date: 2004-02-01
Features: This book covers multiple historical periods and various national entities, or, in other words, it explores nearly 2,500 years of human strategic experience with an exceptionally broad temporal and spatial perspective. The Making of Strategy is a historical examination and presentation of how famous strategic historians have gradually formed and articulated the way military and political leaders respond to external challenges with strategy. What makes this book particularly outstanding among all strategic studies is that it covers multiple historical periods and various national entities, or, in other words, it explores nearly 2,500 years of human strategic experience with an exceptionally broad temporal and spatial perspective. Since its publication in 1994, this book has become one of the major new classics in the field of grand strategy and strategic studies.