The Shaping of Grand Strategy
Policy, Diplomacy, and War
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- Editors:
- Williamson Murray, Ohio State University
- Richard Hart Sinnreich
- James Lacey, Marine Corps War College
- Date Published: February 2011
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521156332
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Within a variety of historical contexts, The Shaping of Grand Strategy addresses the most important tasks states have confronted: namely, how to protect their citizens against the short-range as well as long-range dangers their polities confront in the present and may confront in the future. To be successful, grand strategy demands that governments and leaders chart a course that involves more than simply reacting to immediate events. Above all, it demands they adapt to sudden and major changes in the international environment, which more often than not involves the outbreak of great conflicts but at times demands recognition of major economic, political, or diplomatic changes. This collection of essays explores the successes as well as failures of great states attempting to create grand strategies that work and aims at achieving an understanding of some of the extraordinary difficulties involved in casting, evolving, and adapting grand strategy to the realities of the world.
Read more- Presents an historical base on which an effort to create a new American grand strategy might rest
- A reply to the ahistorical books by political scientists on the theory of international relations
- Brings together a group of leading historians to examine a major historical problem: how states and governments have developed and executed grand strategy
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"The Shaping of Grand Strategy is important reading for anyone interested in shaping of wartime policy." -A. A. Nofi, StrategyPage
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- Date Published: February 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521156332
- length: 294 pages
- dimensions: 226 x 152 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.4kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Thoughts on grand strategy Williamson Murray
2. The grand strategy of the Grand Siècle: learning from the wars of Louis XIV John A. Lynn II
3. Strategic culture and the Seven Years' War Jeremy Black
4. Strategy as character: Bismarck and the Prusso-German question, 1862–78 Marcus Jones
5. About turn: British grand strategy from Salisbury to Grey Richard Hart Sinnreich
6. British grand strategy, 1933–42 Williamson Murray
7. Towards a strategy: creating an American strategy for global war, 1940–3 James Lacey
8. Harry S. Truman and the forming of American grand strategy in the Cold War, 1945–53 Colin S. Gray
9. Concluding thoughts Richard Hart Sinnreich.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Grand Strategy / Military Operations
- Introduction to Military History
- Senior Level Course - Strategy and Policy
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