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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...
An Introduction to Strategic History
Chapter Introduction: Strategic history -- chapter 1 Themes and contexts of strategic history -- chapter 2 Carl von Clausewitz and the theory of war -...
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...
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 author takes issue with the complacent belief that a happy mixture of deterrence, arms control and luck will enable humanity to cope adequately wi...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
- covers 200 years of the evolution of warfare and strategy in modern history - contains pedagogical features to aid students, such as reader's guides...
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...
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 Utility of Military Force as an Instrument of Policy in the 21st Century
Introduction : rust on the mailed fist? -- 11 propositions -- Conclusion....
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...
America's Defense of the New World Order
Since the end of the Cold War, and especially since September 11, few issues have been more hotly debated than the United States' role in the world. I...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
"Revolution in Military Affairs" (RMA) was the most widely used, and abused, acronym in the U.S. defense community in the 1990s. Subsequently, "transf...
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...
Education in strategy is feasible and important. Few are the would-be strategists who are beyond improvement by some formal education. However, for su...
Perspectives on Strategy examines in depth five aspects of strategy. Strategic thought and behaviour are explored and explained from the perspectives ...
The Uses and Value of Strategic Sea Power
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Challenges & Opportunities
A contemporary primer on the leading arguments about U.S. national security, National Security Dilemmas addresses the major challenges and opportuniti...
"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...
Individual essays provide general theories of maritime strategy, histories of seapower in action from the Peloponnesian wars onward, and contemporary ...
Commentators distinguish between two kinds of power, ?hard? and ?soft.? The promise in this logic is obvious. Unfortunately, to date, the idea of soft...
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 "...
Strategist Colin Gray offers a detailed comparison between the character of irregular warfare, insurgency in particular, and the principal enduring fe...
Why Arms Control Must Fail
"If peace breaks out, can arms control be far behind?" According to Colin S. Gray, this sardonic motto describes events of the 1990s just as well as i...
Heartland, Rimlands, and the Technological Revolution
Revolutions in Military Affairs and the Evidence of History
The remit of this study is to encourage further studies that make an honest and successful effort to achieve synergy between social science and histor...
If RMA (revolution in military affairs) was the acronym and concept of choice in the U.S. defense community in the 1990s, so preemption has threatened...