The Evolution of Strategy: Thinking War from Antiquity to the Present

by Beatrice Heuser

Book Overview

Is there a 'Western way of war' which pursues battles of annihilation and single-minded military victory? Is warfare on a path to ever greater destructive force? This magisterial account answers these questions by tracing the history of Western thinking about strategy - the employment of military force as a political instrument - from antiquity to the present day. Assessing sources from Vegetius to contemporary America, and with a particular focus...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052115524X
• ISBN13: 9780521155243
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 594 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

You get what pay for

The low price on this book should have been a warning. The book is terribly highlighted. It has virtually no section that is not exhaustively highlighted. I will give this to our local used book store and go ahead and pay the full price for this very useful book.