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    New York, NY [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press
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    gbv_635158086
    Format: IX, 283 S , 24 cm
    Edition: 1. publ.
    ISBN: 0521761263 , 0521156335 , 9780521761260 , 9780521156332
    Content: "This volume explores the successes as well as failures of great states attempting to create grand strategies that work and discusses of some of the extraordinary difficulties involved"--
    Content: "Within a variety of historical contexts, The Shaping of Grand Strategy addresses the most important tasks states have confronted: namely, how to protect their citizens against the short-range as well as long-range dangers their polities confront in the present and may confront in the future. To be successful, grand strategy demands that governments and leaders chart a course that involves more than simply reacting to immediate events. Above all, it demands they adapt to sudden and major changes in the international environment, which more often than not involves the outbreak of great conflicts but at times demands recognition of major economic, political, or diplomatic changes. This collection of essays explores the successes as well as failures of great states attempting to create grand strategies that work and aims at achieving an understanding of some of the extraordinary difficulties involved in casting, evolving, and adapting grand strategy to the realities of the world"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Thoughts on grand strategy , Thoughts on grand strategy , The grand strategy of the grand siècle : learning from the wars of Louis XIV , Strategic culture and the Seven Years' War , Strategy as character : Bismarck and the Prusso-German question, 1862-1878 , About turn : British strategic transformation from Salisbury to Grey , British grand strategy, 1933-1942 , Toward a strategy : creating an American strategy for global war, 1940-1943 , Harry S. Truman and the forming of American grand strategy in the Cold War, 1945-1953 , The grand strategy of the grand siècle : learning from the wars of Louis XIV , Strategic culture and the Seven Years' War , Strategy as character : Bismarck and the Prusso-German question, 1862-1878 , About turn : British strategic transformation from Salisbury to Grey , British grand strategy, 1933-1942 , Toward a strategy : creating an American strategy for global war, 1940-1943 , Harry S. Truman and the forming of American grand strategy in the Cold War, 1945-1953
    Language: English
    Keywords: Strategie ; Politische Planung ; Militärpolitik ; Sicherheitspolitik ; Internationale Politik ; Geschichte 1665-1953 ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Sammlung von Beiträgen ; Historische Darstellung
    URL: Cover
    Author information: Murray, Williamson 1941-2023
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