Colin S. Gray

Strategy and Politics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This accessibly written textbook explains the whole subject of strategy within the contexts that give it meaning. It aims to identify and explain the rich contextuality of strategic affairs, to explain the subject as a whole.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9780415714761
• ISBN-10: 0415714761
• Artikelnr.: 43747513

Autorenporträt

Colin S. Gray is Professor Emeritus of Strategic Studies at the University of Reading, UK. He has published twnety-eight books and innumerable journal articles. Recent books include Strategy and Defence Planning (2014), Airpower for Strategic Effect (2012), War, Peace and International Relations, 2nd edn (2011) and The Strategy Bridge (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Argument 1. Politics, Power, and Security 2. Peace and
War: Politics at Home and Abroad 3. War and Warfare 4. Theory for Practice
5. Making Strategy 6. History and Geography 7. Culture and Circumstance 8.
Civil-Military Relations 9. Politics and Defence Planning 10. Morality and
its Ethics in Politics and Strategy 11. Strategic Future

Rezensionen

'The text deserves a place in university, military academy, and war college libraries. ...Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.'--L. S. Hulett, Knox College, CHOICE