1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996396725703316

Autore

Turner Thomas <d. 1679.>

Titolo

The joyful news of opening the exchequer to the gold-smiths of Lombard-street, and their creditors [[electronic resource] ] : as it was celebrated in a letter to the same friend in the countrey, to whom the bankers case was formerly sent / / by the author of the same case

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by T.N. for William Place ... and Thomas Basset ..., 1677

Descrizione fisica

10 p

Soggetti

Great Britain Economic conditions 17th century

Great Britain Commercial policy Early works to 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.

Attributed to Thomas Turner. cf. NUC pre-1956.

Signed: Tho. Turner.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910777430303321

Autore

Gray Colin S.

Titolo

Strategy for chaos : revolutions in military affairs and the evidence of history / / olin S. Gray ; with a foreword by Williamson Murray

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Portland, Or. : , : Frank Cass, , 2002

ISBN

1-135-75475-6

1-135-75476-4

1-280-24222-1

0-203-33925-8

9786610242221

Edizione

[19th ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 p.)

Collana

Strategy and History

Altri autori (Persone)

MurrayWilliamson

Disciplina

355.4

Soggetti

Strategy

Military art and science

Military history, Modern

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

Book Cover; Half-title; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 High Concept; 2 RMA Anatomy: Patterns in History?; 3 RMA Dynamics; 4 On Strategy, I: Chaos Confounded?; 5 On Strategy, II: The RMA Connection; 6 Case Study I: The Napoleonic RMA; 7 Case Study II: The RMA of the First World War; 8 Case Study III: The Nuclear RMA; 9 Strategy as a Duel: RMA Meets the Enemy; Select Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this volume, Professor Colin Gray develops and applies the theory and scholarship on the allegedly historical practice of the 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA), in order to improve our comprehension of how and why strategy 'works'.The author explores the RMA hypothesis both theoretically and historically. The book argues that the conduct of an RMA has to be examined as a form of strategic behaviour, which means that, of necessity, it must ""work"" as strategy works. The great RMA debate of the 1990s is reviewed empathetically, though sceptically, by the author, with every major