For everyone interested in military and geopolitical strategy

 

Editor Jeremy Black, already a well-known expert in military strategy, has curated a large number of articles by numerous authors into a collection titled "The Practice of Strategy: A Global History".  The articles include:

• Grand Patterns of Strategy, old and new
• Escalation Dominance in Antiquity
• Powers in the Western Mediterranean.  A Strategic Assessment in Roman History
• A Kind of Strategy: Carthage’s confrontation with Roman soft power during the First Punic War
• Understanding a Different World of War:  Strategic Practice in Medieval Europe and the Middle East
• Ukrainism of Mālum Discordiæ:  Strategy of War and Growth,  Setting up the strategic scene
• War, Strategy, and Environment on  South Asia’s Northwestern Frontier
• Imperial Chinese strategy, A Play in Three Acts
• Spanish Grand Strategy c. 1479/1500-1800/1830
• Confronting Russia at Sea; the Long View (1700-1919)
• How to deter or defeat Russia – the maritime historical experience
• ‘New Paths to Wisdom’: Clausewitz: From Practice to Theory,
• Trade War, War on Trade, War on Neutrals
• Napoleon and Caesar: comparing strategies
• Hitler and German Strategy 1933-1945
• Stalin as Protean Strategist?
• Cold War Strategy and Practice
• Russian strategy across three eras:  Imperial, Soviet, and contemporary
• Swedish Strategic Practice
• India’s Strategy from Nehru to Modi: 1947-2022
• China’s Military Strategy from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping
• Strategies for the New Millennium

Best of all, you can download a full PDF copy of the entire book free of charge!  That's the best value in this field I've seen for a very long time.  Don't let some early pages in Italian put you off:  the full English translation of them follows.

Highly recommended to all military strategy and strategic planning buffs.

Peter