Naval operations and grand strategy in the new security environment -- Comparing grand strategies and their inherent limitations -- A maritime strategy of primacy in the Persian Gulf -- Playing a follow-the-leader strategy on the high seas -- Pirates, terrorists, and formal sponsorship -- Navigating the proliferation security initiative and informal sponsorship -- Racing for the Arctic with a strategy of restraint -- Controlling the southern maritime approaches with an isolationist strategy
Summary
In 'The End of Grand Strategy', Simon Reich and Peter Dombrowski challenge this common view. They eschew prescription in favour of describing and explaining what America's military actually does. They argue that each presidental administration inevitably resorts to each of the six variant of grand strategy that they implement simultaneously as a result of a series of fundamental recent changes - what they term 'calibrated strategies.' Reich and Dombrowski support their controversial argument by examining six major maritime operations, stretching from America's shores to every region of the globe. Each of these operations reflects one major variant of strategy. They conclude that grand strategy, as we know it, is dead
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