Schools for Strategy: Teaching Strategy for 21st Century Conflict - Softcover

Gray, Colin S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 125713177X ISBN 13: 9781257131778

Publisher: Lulu.com, 2011

Synopsis

All would-be strategists would benefit by some formal education. However, for education in strategy to be well-directed, it needs to rest upon sound assumptions concerning the eternal nature yet ever shifting character, meaning, and function of strategy, as well as the range of behaviors required for effective strategic performance. The author emphasizes the necessity for strategic education to help develop the strategic approach, the way of thinking that can solve or illuminate strategic problems. He advises that such education should not strive for a spurious relevance by presenting a military variant of current affairs. The author believes that the strategist will perform better in today's world if he has mastered and can employ strategy's general theory.

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About the Author:

COLIN S. GRAY is Professor of International Politics and Strategic Studies at the University of Reading, England. He worked at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London), and at Hudson Institute (Croton-on-Hudson, NY) before founding the National Institute for Public Policy, a defense-oriented think tank in the Washington, DC, area. Dr. Gray served for 5 years in the Reagan administration on the President’s General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament. He has served as an adviser to both the U.S. and British governments (he has dual citizenship). His government work has included studies of nuclear strategy, arms control, maritime strategy, space strategy, and the use of special forces. Dr. Gray has written 23 books, including: The Sheriff: America’s Defense of the New World Order (University Press of Kentucky, 2004); Another Bloody Century: Future Warfare (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2005); Strategy and History: Essays on Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2006); War, Peace, and International Relations: An Introduction to Strategic History (Routledge, 2007; Potomac Books, 2009); and National Security Dilemmas: Challenges and Opportunities (Potomac Books, 2009). His next book is The Strategy Bridge: Theory for Practice (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). Currently, he is researching and writing a book on the theory and practice of airpower. Dr. Gray is a graduate of the Universities of Manchester and Oxford.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 125713177X
• ISBN 13: 9781257131778
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72