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This book examines the subject of strategy and its relationship with politics. Despite the fact that strategy is always the product of political proce...
Future Warfare
How the wars of the near future will be fought and who will win them Many nations, peoples and special interest groups believe that violence will adva...
The current process of military transformation will enable the Armed Forces to do better what they already do superbly well. It is important to excel ...
An introduction to strategic history
War, Peace and International Relations provides an introduction to the strategic history of the past two centuries, showing how those 200 years were s...
Modern Strategy explains how strategic reasoning makes sense of the great complexity of war on land, at sea, in the air, in space, and even 'cyberspac...
This book provides a short and accessible introduction to the theory of strategy, examines the general theory of strategy in accordance with 23 key Pr...
What is Soviet-American competition all about? Is the Soviet Union a security problem that the United States must solve? Or is it an insecurity condit...
The author takes issue with the complacent belief that a happy mixture of deterrence, arms control and luck will enable humanity to cope adequately wi...
Meeting the Challenge of Uncertainty
Strategy and Defence Planning: Meeting the Challenge of Uncertainty explores and examines why and how security communities prepare purposefully for th...
Strategy is not a modern invention. It is an essential and enduring feature of human history that is here to stay. In this original essay, Colin S. Gr...
Theory for Practice
The Strategy Bridge presents and explains the general theory of strategy and demonstrates the relevance of that theory to the real world of practice. ...
Policy, Strategy, and Military Technology
Weaponry does not equal strategy, argues Colin Gray, but the two are often confused, resulting in such linguistic errors as strategic weapons. There m...
Author Colin Gray maintains that there are distinctive U.S. and Soviet national styles which come into play in each power's nuclear strategic planning...
Essays on Theory and Practice
This book comprises some of the most important contributions to the strategic debate over the past thirty years by a leading theorist and practitioner...
The concept of soft power, that is the influence attained through the co-option of foreigners by the attractiveness of our values, ideas, and practice...
In this magisterial tour d'horizon of the air weapon's steady rise in effectiveness since its fledgling days, Colin Gray, a prolific strate gist of lo...
An Introduction to Strategic History
- covers 200 years of the evolution of warfare and strategy in modern history - contains pedagogical features to aid students, such as reader's guides...
The Utility of Military Force as an Instrument of Policy in the 21st Century
Introduction : rust on the mailed fist? -- 11 propositions -- Conclusion....
The United States was thrust so suddenly into the war on terrorism that it was forced to deal with both immediate operational issues and broad strateg...
Enterprise and Culture is a uniquely wide-ranging, insightful and well-informed critical evaluation of the economic and social project of creating an ...
The Strategic Advantage of Navies in War
"Through colourful and lively historical illustrations as well as strategic theory, Gray shows how sea power, when integrated with land and air power,...
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This title is accessible for all students. It provides clear navigation through the texts, spacious page design and new activities to match the new GC...
The American Experience
Strategic studies as a field of civilian scholarship has developed along distinctive lines in the United States since World War II. The rapid prolifer...
"The author explores the concept of victory in the war in terrorism, but he does so by placing it within the larger currents of change that are sweepi...
Forty Maxims on War, Peace, and Strategy
Gray presents an inventive treatise on the nature of strategy, war, and peace, organized around forty maxims. This collection of mini-essays will fore...
Commentators distinguish between two kinds of power, ?hard? and ?soft.? The promise in this logic is obvious. Unfortunately, to date, the idea of soft...
Strategist Colin Gray offers a detailed comparison between the character of irregular warfare, insurgency in particular, and the principal enduring fe...
An account of fighter plane experiences in the Battle of Britain and throughout World War II by Group Captain Colin Gray. He talks about his 500 missi...
Essays in Memory of Colin Matthew
In the last twenty years one of the classical arenas for British historical writing - the politics of Victorian Britain - has ceased to be an obvious ...
Can the American Way of War Adapt?
The author offers a detailed comparison between the character of irregular warfare, insurgency in particular, and the principal enduring features of "...
The change from old to new technologies has fundamentally changed the relationship between the consumer and the firm. This book is at the frontier of ...
The Uses and Value of Strategic Sea Power
Individual essays provide general theories of maritime strategy, histories of seapower in action from the Peloponnesian wars onward, and contemporary ...
Teaching Strategy for 21st Century Conflict
All would-be strategists would benefit by some formal education. However, for education in strategy to be well-directed, it needs to rest upon sound a...
Though discounted by Clausewitz in the circumstances of his era, strategic surprise has enjoyed considerable popularity over the past century. The pos...
Heartland, Rimlands, and the Technological Revolution
Why the Sky is Not Falling
Cyber is now recognized as an operational domain, but the theory that should explain it strategically is, for the most part, missing. It is one thing ...
Revolutions in Military Affairs and the Evidence of History
In this volume, Professor Colin Gray develops and applies the theory and scholarship on the allegedly historical practice of the 'Revolution in Milita...