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It required the experience of the First World War to highlight the relationship between strategy and policy, and to spawn the terms ‘grand strategy’ or ‘national strategy’. Both phrases were legitimated by the conduct of the Second World War and the advent of the Cold War.
The deadly secret of strategy is that it cannot be taught, it can only be learnt by experience. As a person who believed for more than fifty years that he taught strategy well enough so that everyone, seemingly, was content, this negative judgment came as a considerable surprise, indeed revelation.
Nov 10, 2016 · Strategy is the purposeful orientation toward success in a complex, competitive conflict. This definition includes six core words, each carefully selected, described below. Purposeful: As in mindful, selected, or conscientious; there must be some decision for action (or decision for inaction).
Jan 8, 2019 · The articles scrutinise strategy from three perspectives: the study of strategy, and how our understanding of strategy has changed over time; new areas for strategic theory, i.e., areas where the development of war has made strategy become more important, such as peacekeeping operations and cyberspace; and the makers of strategy, more ...
- Kersti Larsdotter
- 2019
emerging concept. This article aims to present the fundamental knowledge about the nature of war and strategy. While the initial sections about war, policy and the nature of war will be mainly based on Clause-witz’s work, the following sections will be based on modern interpretations of strategy, grand strategy and strategic theory. 2. War ...
Jan 11, 2019 · The practice of strategy is different from strategic theory. The latter was largely developed by professional soldiers from the experiences of the Napoleonic Wars, and compared the present with the past to establish general truths about war. It used history as its dominant discipline until 1945.
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This edition begins with three IJ Briefs that provide short, easily digestible perspectives on what strategy is, the importance of clarity in terminology, and how the study of war and strategy is essential to students and practitioners in international relations.
