Strategic Culture and Ways of War

by Lawrence Sondhaus

Book Overview

A much-needed survey and synopsis of literature on strategic culture and ways of war.

It clearly shows how national strategies and approaches to warfare are, to a significant extent, culturally determined. The concept of national 'ways of war' dates from the 1930s, when Basil H. Liddell Hart theorized that there was a 'British Way in Warfare'.

The concept of "strategic culture" dates from the 1970s, when Jack Snyder introduced it...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415702143
• ISBN13: 9780415702140
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.3"