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Book SynopsisGrand strategy demands that governments and leaders chart a course that involves more than simply reacting to immediate events. It demands that they adapt to and plan for sudden and major changes in the international environment. This volume explores the successes and failures of these strategies.
Trade Review"The Shaping of Grand Strategy is important reading for anyone interested in shaping of wartime policy." -A. A. Nofi, StrategyPage
"Important reading for anyone interested in the shaping of wartime policy." -The NYMAS REVIEW
Table of Contents1. Thoughts on grand strategy Williamson Murray; 2. The grand strategy of the Grand Siècle: learning from the wars of Louis XIV John A. Lynn II; 3. Strategic culture and the Seven Years' War Jeremy Black; 4. Strategy as character: Bismarck and the Prusso-German question, 1862–78 Marcus Jones; 5. About turn: British grand strategy from Salisbury to Grey Richard Hart Sinnreich; 6. British grand strategy, 1933–42 Williamson Murray; 7. Towards a strategy: creating an American strategy for global war, 1940–3 James Lacey; 8. Harry S. Truman and the forming of American grand strategy in the Cold War, 1945–53 Colin S. Gray; 9. Concluding thoughts Richard Hart Sinnreich.
