Fighting Talk: Forty Maxims on War, Peace, and Strategy

by Colin S. Gray

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597973076
• ISBN13: 9781597973076
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"