Tag: Grand Strategy

Globalizing the Thirty Years War: Early German Newspapers and their Geopolitical Perspective on the Atlantic World

★★★ ABSTRACT: At the height of the Thirty Years War, news from South America, West Africa and the Caribbean was widespread and quickly distributed in the central European peripheries of the early modern Atlantic world. Despite the German retreat from sixteenth-century colonial experiments, overseas reports sometimes appeared in remote southern German towns before they were... Continua a leggere →

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The grand strategy of carl von clausewitz

★★ As the affairs of states continue to evolve into a complex web of interdependence, cooperation, and competition, pressure mounts on states to effectively employ the tools of statecraft to attain their political objects. The contention of this essay is that Carl von Clausewitz implicitly defined grand strategy in his magnum opus, On War, as the... Continua a leggere →

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America’s Byzantine strategy

★★ The Roman Empire was the longest-lasting empire in world history, enduring more than fourteen centuries. Throughout its republican and imperial history, Rome relied heavily on military power, using conquest to expand the empire. As Luttwak observes in Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire (epilogue), the legion was the basic tactical unit of the Roman army that... Continua a leggere →

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A strategic posture for a new era

Experts, including Congressional Strategic Posture Commission Commissioners, examine the future of US nuclear strategy to develop nonpartisan policies addressing key security challenges facing the nation.

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Existe-t-il une culture stratégique européenne ?

29 minutes La notion de « culture stratégique » s'impose aujourd'hui dans la théorie des relations internationales, où elle combat le courant constructiviste. Cette perspective m'était encore étrangère lorsque, au début des années 1990, j'ai utilisé l'expression pour caractériser l'expérience stratégique des Etats-Unis et de la France[1]. Essentiellement historien de formation, je m'appuyais fortement sur... Continua a leggere →

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Military strategy fundamentals

★★★ The phrase ‘military strategy’ in this article’s title might be a tautology for some, as strategy originally concerned the art or skills of the general.1 However, today, strategy is applied across almost all areas of society with the field of business strategy arguably more vibrant than that of contemporary military strategy. Given such common... Continua a leggere →

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Basic factors influencing our strategy (II)

Cold War (1947-1991) ★★★★ A lecture, previously labelled “restricted”, delivered at the Naval War Collegeon 11 June 1952, in the Global Strategy Discussions. Basic strategy must be determined by a perpetual remem­brance that the world is round. Like most other important observa­tions this may be considered obvious, but its realization in the ab­stract and its... Continua a leggere →

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Basic factors influencing our strategy (I)

Cold War (1947-1991) ★★★★ A lecture, previously labelled “restricted”, delivered at the Naval War Collegeon 11 June 1952, in the Global Strategy Discussions. Basic strategy must be determined by a perpetual remem­brance that the world is round. Like most other important observa­tions this may be considered obvious, but its realization in the ab­stract and its... Continua a leggere →

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