Colin Gray

Strategy for Chaos (eBook, ePUB)

Revolutions in Military Affairs and the Evidence of History

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this volume, Professor Colin Gray develops and applies the theory and scholarship on the allegedly historical practice of the "Revolution in Military Affairs" (RMA), in order to improve our comprehension of how and why strategy "works".

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135754754
• Artikelnr.: 47892154

Autorenporträt

Colin Gray

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 High concept: strategy, complex and sometimes nonlinear
the argument
history and social science
the making of a great debate
method and trajectory. Part 2 RMA anatomy - patterns in history?: warning label
anatomy of species
a question of continuity. Part 3 RMA dynamics: provenance
RMA life-cycle
clarifying confusion. Part 4 On strategy, 1 - chaos confounded?: what is strategic?
permanent nature, changing character
chaos and prediction
is strategy chaotic?. Part 5 On strategy, 2 -the RMA connection: RMS as strategic behaviour
a matter of dimension
theory and practice. Part 6 Case study 1 - the Napoleonic RMA: Napoleon and modern war
RMA life-cycle
strategic behaviour. Part 7 Case study 2 - the RMA of the First World War: the great artillery war
RMA life-cycle
strategic behaviour. Part 8 Case study 3 - the nuclear RMA: two revolutions
RMA life-cycle
strategic behaviour. Part 9 Strategy as a duel - RMA meets the enemy: politics and RMAs
envoi -strategy and history.