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Fighting Talk: Forty Maxims on War, Peace, and Strategy
Colin Gray
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Description for Fighting Talk: Forty Maxims on War, Peace, and Strategy
Paperback. Presents a treatise on the nature of strategy, war, and peace, organized around forty maxims. This collection of mini essays intends to forearm politicians, soldiers, and the attentive general public against many - probably most - fallacies that abound in contemporary debates about war, peace, and security. Num Pages: 196 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: HBW; JWA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
Colin Gray presents an inventive treatise on the nature of strategy, war, and peace, organized around forty maxims. This collection of mini essays will forearm politicians, soldiers, and the attentive general public against many—probably most— fallacies that abound in contemporary debates about war, peace, and security. While one can never guarantee strategic success, which depends on policy, military prowess, and the quality of the dialogue between the two, a strategic education led by the judgments in these maxims increases the chances that one’s errors will be small rather than catastrophic.
The maxims are grouped according to five clusters. “War ... Read more
Colin Gray presents an inventive treatise on the nature of strategy, war, and peace, organized around forty maxims. This collection of mini essays will forearm politicians, soldiers, and the attentive general public against many—probably most— fallacies that abound in contemporary debates about war, peace, and security. While one can never guarantee strategic success, which depends on policy, military prowess, and the quality of the dialogue between the two, a strategic education led by the judgments in these maxims increases the chances that one’s errors will be small rather than catastrophic.
The maxims are grouped according to five clusters. “War ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc United States
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Dulles, United States
ISBN
9781597973076
SKU
V9781597973076
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About Colin Gray
COLIN S. GRAY is a professor of international politics and strategic studies and the director of the Centre for Strategic Studies, University of Reading, England. He is the author of twenty-three books, including National Security Dilemmas: Challenges and Opportunities (Potomac Books, Inc., 2008), and several dozen government reports. He lives in Wokingham, United Kingdom.
Reviews for Fighting Talk: Forty Maxims on War, Peace, and Strategy
"[Gray] has sustained and enhanced a reputation as the English-speaking world's leading strategic thinker. Gray's work has always eschewed abstraction for empiricism. His theoretical studies never fall prey to wishful thinking or mirror-imaging. His strategic analyses incorporate strong historical elements. Fighting Talk, though unpretentious in structure, represents the distillation of a career's worth of study and reflection in these contexts."—Journal ... Read more