ABOUT THE BOOK
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Gray presents an inventive treatise on the nature of strategy, war, and
peace, organized around forty maxims. This collection of mini-essays will
forearm politicians, soldiers, and the attentive general public against
many-probably most-fallacies that abound in contemporary debates about war,
peace, and security. While one can never guarantee strategic success, which
depends on policy, military prowess, and the quality of the dialogue between
the two, a strategic education led by the judgments in these maxims increases
the chances that one`s errors will be small rather than catastrophic.
The maxims are grouped according to five clusters. War and Peace tackles
the larger issues of strategic history that drive the demand for the services
of strategic thought and practice. Strategy presses further, into the realm of
strategic behavior, and serves as a bridge between the political focus of part
one and the military concerns that follow. In Military Power and Warfare turns
to the pragmatic business of military performance: operations, tactics, and
logistics. Part four, Security and Insecurity examines why strategy is
important, including a discussion of the nature, dynamic character, and
functioning of world politics. Finally, History and the Future is meant to help
strategists better understand the processes of historical change.
ABOUT Author
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Colin S. Gray is Professor of International Politics and Strategic
Studies, and Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies, University of
Reading, England. He is the author of 19 books , more than 300 articles, and
several dozen reports for the government. His work is often cited in the fields
of arms control, maritime strategy, nuclear strategy, and strategic culture.