DEDICATION
PREFACE
Part I ORIGINS
1 ORIGINS 1: EVOLUTION
2 ORIGINS 2: THE BIBLE
3 ORIGINS 3: THE GREEKS
4 SUN TZU AND MACHIAVELLI
5 SATAN'S STRATEGY
Part II STRATEGIES OF FORCE
6 THE NEW SCIENCE OF STRATEGY
7 CLAUSEWITZ
8 THE FALSE SCIENCE
9 ANNIHILATION OR EXHAUSTION
10 BRAIN AND BRAWN
11 THE INDIRECT APPROACH
12 NUCLEAR GAMES
13 THE RATIONALITY OF IRRATIONALITY
14 GUERRILLA WARFARE
15 OBSERVATION AND ORIENTATION
16 THE REVOLUTION IN MILITARY AFFAIRS
17 THE MYTH OF THE MASTER STRATEGIST
PART III STRATEGY FROM BELOW
18 MARX AND A STRATEGY FOR THE WORKING CLASS
19 HERZEN AND BAKUNIN
20 REVISIONISTS AND VANGUARDS
21 BUREAUCRATS, DEMOCRATS, and ELITES
22 FORMULAS, MYTHS, AND PROPAGANDA
23 THE POWER OF NONVIOLENCE
24 EXISTENTIAL STRATEGY
25 BLACK POWER AND WHITE ANGER
26 FRAMES, PARADIGMS, DISCOURSES, AND NARRATIVES
27 RACE, RELIGION, AND ELECTIONS
PART IV STRATEGY FROM ABOVE
28 THE RISE OF THE MANAGEMENT CLASS
29 THE BUSINESS OF BUSINESS
30 MANAGEMENT STRATEGY
31 BUSINESS AS WAR
32 THE RISE OF ECONOMICS
33 RED QUEENS AND BLUE OCEANS
34 THE SOCIOLOGICAL CHALLENGE
35 DELIBERATE OR EMERGENT
PART V theories of strategy
36 THE LIMITS OF RATIONAL CHOICE
37 BEYOND RATIONAL CHOICE
38 STORIES AND SCRIPTS
37 BEYOND RATIONAL CHOICE
38 STORIES AND SCRIPTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Winner: W. J. M. Mackenzie Book Prize
Lawrence Freedman has been Professor of War Studies at King's
College London since 1982, and Vice-Principal since 2003. Elected a
Fellow of the British Academy in 1995 and awarded the CBE in 1996,
he was appointed Official Historian of the Falklands Campaign in
1997. He was awarded the KCMG in 2003. In June 2009 he was
appointed to serve as a member of the official inquiry into Britain
and the 2003 Iraq War. Professor Freedman has written
extensively on nuclear strategy and the cold war, as well as
commentating regularly on contemporary security issues. His most
recent book, A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle
East, won the 2009 Lionel Gelber Prize
and Duke of Westminster Medal for Military Literature.
"[Freedman's] books manage to delight the experts yet are still
comprehensible to the general reader, a rare skill in this genre.
On this occasion, he has produced what is arguably the best book
ever written on strategy." --Washington Post
"Magisterial... wide-ranging erudition and densely packed
argument." --The Economist
"This is a book of startling scope, erudition and, more than
anything, wisdom." --Financial Times
"Comprehensive, vigorous survey of strategy and its evolution...A
lucid text that raises questions while answering others--of great
value to planners, whether of an advertising campaign or a military
one." --Kirkus Reviews
"Sir Lawrence Freedman's 750-page magnum opus, Strategy: A History,
is encyclopedic, although not alphabetical, a pleasure to dip into
here and there...There are grand strategies set forth in several of
the greater works covered by Freedman, but Strategy: A History
holds the reader to the strategic level, a subset of grand
strategy." --New Criterion
"Strategy: A History is easily the most ambitious book that I have
read in many years... With a book of this scope anybody can find
something to disagree with but nobody can come away from this book
without feeling enriched and intellectually challenged. It will
live on as a classic. " --Mark Stout, War on the Rocks
"Strategy: A History, is an ambitious and sprawling book by a
British military historian who has written widely, and very well,
about nuclear and cold war strategy, the Falklands War, and
contemporary military affairs, among other subjects... With
admirable candor, Freedman tells us that he received the contract
for this book in (gulp!) 1994, and that he made a 'number of false
starts' with the manuscript. Considering the daunting scope of the
subject,
this is entirely understandable. Considering the wisdom and
analytical brilliance he brings to bear on that subject, it's been
well worth the wait." --The Daily Beast
"Tour de force... Unusually thoughtful and clearly written,
Freedman's dense tome is a serious academic study in political
theory, but it has crossover potential and will attract readers
interested in military planning, strategic systems, and the nature
of power." --Publishers Weekly starred review
"A vast exploration of strategy... full of surprises, and marked by
unsurpassed erudition. It also is witty and reminds us that he in
the world who knows most about strategy may be the one who is the
most unimpressed with it."--National Review
"An erudite, encyclopedic study that will surely become a standard
reference in the discipline." --strategy + business
"A fascinating review of the tools available to all of us to create
agile, informed and interesting decisions." --Sheridan Jobbins, the
World Economic Forum blog
"Lawrence Freedman shows here why he is justly renowned as one of
the world's leading thinkers about strategy, which he defines as
the central art of getting more out of a situation than the
starting balance of power would suggest." --Joseph S. Nye, Jr.,
Harvard University and author of The Future of Power
"A marvelous grand tour of the meaning, implications, and
consequences of strategic thinking through the ages and in multiple
contexts. Freedman is a master of the subject and unsurpassed in
his ability to unravel the twists and turns of strategic
complexities and paradoxes." --Robert Jervis, Adlai E. Stevenson
Professor of International Politics, Columbia University
"This is a wonderful book--a comprehensive yet deeply considered
summation of the very nature of strategy by the premier social
scientist of the subject. Strategy: A History is lucid and
dispassionate, sometimes rueful, often ironic, always informative."
--Philip Bobbitt, author of The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and
the Course of History
"This substantial, comprehensive, hermeneutic work examines the
various dimensions and history of "strategy," which Freedman
defines as "the art of creating power"...this very ambitious
exploration provides readers with a useful introduction to the
field of strategic studies." --CHOICE
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