Strategy : a history / / Lawrence Freedman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463190403321
• Autore: Freedman Lawrence
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• ISBN: 0-19-934991-6; 0-19-022923-3; 0-19-934990-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (768 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.6
• Soggetti: Strategy - History; Military history; Strategic culture; Strategic planning; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: part I. Origins -- part II. Strategies of force -- part III. Strategy from below -- part IV. Strategy from above -- part V. Theories of strategy.
• Sommario/riassunto: In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking, in a consistently engaging and insightful account of how strategy came to pervade every aspect of our lives. The range of Freedman's narrative is extraordinary, moving from the surprisingly advanced strategy practiced in primate groups, to the opposing strategies of Achilles and Odysseus in The Iliad, the strategic advice of Sun Tzu and Machiavelli, the great military innovations of Baron Henri de Jomini and Carl von Clausewit