The Making of Strategy: Rulers, States, and War

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Williamson Murray (Ohio State University) Alvin Bernstein (University of Rochester, New York)

The Making of Strategy

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Rulers, States, and War

Williamson Murray (Ohio State University), Alvin Bernstein (University of Rochester, New York), MacGregor Knox (London School of Economics and Political Science)

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Cambridge University Press
04 January 2000

History; General & world history; Defence strategy, planning & research

Most writing about strategy has focused on individual strategic theorists or great military leaders. This book focuses instead on the messy processes by which rulers and states have framed strategy in the past - a subject of vital practical importance to strategists, and of great interest to students of strategy and statecraft. It consists of 17 case studies that range from fifth-century Athens and Ming China to Hitler's Germany, Israel, and the post-1945 United States. The studies analyse, within a common interpretive framework, precisely how rulers and states have made strategy. The introduction emphasises the constants in the rapidly shifting world of the strategist; the concluding essay tries to understand the forces that have driven the transformation of strategy since 400 BC and seem likely to continue to transform it in the future.

Edited by: Williamson Murray (Ohio State University), Alvin Bernstein (University of Rochester, New York), MacGregor Knox (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 227mm, Width: 149mm, Spine: 36mm
Weight: 925g
ISBN: 9780521566278
ISBN 10: 0521566274
Pages: 704
Publication Date: 04 January 2000
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Making of Strategy: Rulers, States, and War

This book traces the processes that resulted in military strategies in 17 cases, ranging from ancient Greece and Rome to American nuclear strategy...Each essay is self-contained, and academics searching for brief but expert analyses of strategic case studies for teaching purposes will welcome this book. Foreign Affairs ...the essays, including those on Israel and the United States in the nuclear age, are presented with remarkable verve and freshness. Brian Bond, Times Literary Supplement The essays by some of the finest strategic analysts in the world, both historians and historically minded political scientists, are of a uniformly high quality. The Making of Strategy is an exceptional work. Anyone who wishes to understand the essence of strategy-making as a process, and the factors that influence strategy-making will profit by reading these essays. Mackubin T. Owens, Strategic Review One of the advantages of the book is its essays on lesser-known periods for some powers...Military historians and political scientists can benefit from this work, as can students from the upper-division undergraduate level onward. R. Higham, Choice The Making of Strategy: Rulers, States, and War offers an important collection of essays which examines the process of strategic decision-making from the Peloponnesian Wars to the nuclear age. The International History Review