Title: | Pure strategy: Power and principle in the space and information age |
Authors: | Everett carl Dolman |
Material Type: | Books |
Publisher: | London : Cass, 2005 |
Article on page: | XIV, 218 |
Series: | Strategy and history, ISSN 1473-6403 |
ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-7146-8498-7 |
Languages: | English |
Class number: | 355.02 |
Tags: | Strategy |
Abstract: | To the tactical and operational planner, wars are indeed won and lost, and the difference is plain. Success is measurable; failure is obvious. In contrast, the pure strategist understands that war is but one aspect of social and political competition, an ongoing interaction that has no finality. Strategy therefore connects the conduct of war with the intent of politics. It shapes and guides military means in anticipation of a panoply of possible coming events. In the process, strategy changes the context within which events will happen. In this new book we see clearly that the goal of strategy is not to culminate events, to establish finality in the discourse between states, but to continue them; to influence state discourse in such a way that it will go forward on favorable terms. For continue it will. This book will provoke debate and stimulate new thinking across the field and strategic studies. |
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