![]() Gaddis does concede that “grand strategies have traditionally been associated, however, with the planning and fighting of wars.” And so wars - or rather how not to lose them - are the general theme of his often didactic book. “On Grand Strategy,” by John Lewis Gaddis, a pre-eminent historian and biographer of the Cold War, does not offer a comprehensive analysis, much less a history, of strategy on a grand scale in the manner of the classic studies by Angelo Codevilla, Edward Mead Earle, Lawrence Freedman, B. It denotes encompassing all the resources that a state can focus - military, economic, political and cultural - to further its own interests in a global landscape. ![]() What is “grand strategy” as opposed to simple strategy? The term is mostly an academic one. ON GRAND STRATEGY By John Lewis Gaddis 368 pp. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |