Theory of Strategy

Colin S. Gray (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

178 Seiten

2018
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-880067-5 (ISBN)

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This advanced textbook examines and develops the author's influential theory of military strategy. It demonstrates how such strategic activity is an essential and universal feature of human societies, and, moreover, one fully capable of theoretical abstraction, and examines its key elements.

This book provides a short and accessible introduction to the theory of strategy, examines the general theory of strategy in accordance with 23 key Principles and explains its nature, functions, and intended consequences.

Theory of Strategy makes the radical argument that the familiar structure of strategy's general theory (political ends, strategic ways, military means - and assumptions) holds as sound for security at all times and in all places, of human necessity. Strategy is ever-varying in its character, but not in its nature, which is unchanging.

Colin S. Gray is Professor Emeritus of Strategic Studies, University of Reading. He has published thirty books on strategic matters, including The Strategy Bridge (OUP, 2010), Perspectives on Strategy (OUP, 2013), Strategy and Defence Planning (OUP, 2014), and The Practice of Strategy (co-authored with John Andreas Olsen, OUP 2011).

1: Introduction
2: Argument
3: Theory (1) Politics and Strategy Principles 1-7
4: Theory (2) Chaos and Order: Principles 8-13
5: Theory (3) Understanding Complexity: Principles 14-19
6: Theory (4) Coherent Theory: Principles 20-23
7: Strategic History
8: Strategic Sense
Annex

Erscheinungsdatum	29.05.2018
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 234 mm
Gewicht	280 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10	0-19-880067-3 / 0198800673
ISBN-13	978-0-19-880067-5 / 9780198800675
Zustand	Neuware