The Creator of Modern Strategy

Author: Edited by (USA) Parrott, Edited by (USA) Craig, Edited by (USA) Gilbert, Translated by Shi Yinong et al.
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Grand strategy refers to the development, mobilization, coordination, utilization, and guidance of a nation's all material and spiritual resources with a holistic perspective, striving to achieve strategically reasonable fundamental national goals. Historically, they primarily originate from strategic concepts related to war preparation and the overall war effort. The seminal work The Shapers of Modern Strategy, first published in 1943, was the first to comprehensively explore, present, and elaborate on this wealth of ideas. Forty-three years later, the leading authority on Clausewitz today, Parrott, led the revision of this book, replacing and adding most of its content, ensuring its status as the premier classic in the history of modern strategic thought and maintaining its place among the most important works in grand strategy research. The book's exposition of strategic thought and practice spans the entire modern history: from Machiavelli, through Gustavus Adolfus, Frederick the Great, Washington and Hamilton, Napoleon, Clausewitz, Marx and Engels, and great commanders, statesmen, or thinkers like Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, to the government leaders, military commanders, revolutionary movement leaders, and strategic theorists who played particularly prominent roles in shaping the history of 20th-century warfare and international politics.
The articles collected in this book offer a broad political and grand strategic perspective, demonstrating the close interplay between peace and war and highlighting the connections between society and its military institutions and policies. "However, strategic thought is the red thread that runs through all these papers."