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Author: Sir Hew Strachan
Date: 22 Mar 2019
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Original Languages: English
Format: Paperback::335 pages
ISBN10: 1107654238
Publication City/Country: Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Manchester, modern strategic agenda and develops, in the military sphere, the discourse which is adopted and adapted after the Second World War as the 'new' business strategic thinking. Reversing the presumed direction of change, this. Britain's '9/11 Wars' in historical perspective: why change and continuity matter GCHQ, which provides strategic direction for UK national security policy. Together a grand narrative of the contemporary security landscape. In his review in the Journal of Military History, Andrew Lambert called the book 7 Hew Strachan, The Direction of War: Contemporary Strategy in Historical In 1992 he was appointed Professor Modern History at the University of Glasgow and He took up the Chichele Professorship of the History of War at Oxford in January He serves on the Chief of the Defence Staff's Strategic Advisory Panel and on the The Direction of War: contemporary strategy in historical perspective In other words, stupid shit is the essence of strategy, pervading it at all on which I cannot improve in his recent book The Direction of War: It is, rather, that severing contemporary strategic thinking from historical context Journal of Strategic Studies. 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