| Description |
xvi, 751 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Contents note continued: 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 -- pt. V Theories of Strategy -- 36.The Limits of Rational Choice -- 37.Beyond Rational Choice -- 38.Stories and Scripts |
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Machine generated contents note: pt. 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 -- pt. 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 -- pt. 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 -- pt. IV Strategy from Above -- |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
Decision making |
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History |
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Military strategy |
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Overseas item |
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Political ideologies |
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Political science |
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Management techniques |
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Power (Politics) |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 633-717) and index |
| Subject |
Military history.
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Strategic culture.
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Strategic planning.
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Strategy -- History.
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| Author |
Ebook Library.
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| LC no. |
2013011944 |
| ISBN |
9780199325153 (hardback : acid-free paper) |
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