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200 10$aStrategy for chaos $erevolutions in military affairs and the evidence of history /$folin S. Gray ; with a foreword by Williamson Murray
205   $a19th ed.
210  1$aLondon ;$aPortland, Or. :$cFrank Cass,$d2002.
215   $a1 online resource (296 p.)
225 1 $aStrategy and History
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-7146-8483-X 
311   $a0-7146-5186-9 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aBook 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
330   $aIn this volume, Professor Colin Gray develops and applies the theory and scholarship on the allegedly historical practice of the 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA), in order to improve our comprehension of how and why strategy 'works'.The author explores the RMA hypothesis both theoretically and historically. The book argues that the conduct of an RMA has to be examined as a form of strategic behaviour, which means that, of necessity, it must ""work"" as strategy works. The great RMA debate of the 1990s is reviewed empathetically, though sceptically, by the author, with every major
410  0$aStrategy and History
606   $aStrategy
606   $aMilitary art and science
606   $aMilitary history, Modern$vCase studies
615  0$aStrategy.
615  0$aMilitary art and science.
615  0$aMilitary history, Modern
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700   $aGray$b Colin S.$0540833
701   $aMurray$b Williamson$0675617
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