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Author(s): E. Dolman
ISBN(s): 9780714656052, 0714656054
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 1.03 MB
Year: 2005
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0714656054 
ISBN 13: 9780714656052
Author: E Dolman

A stimulating new inquiry into the fundamental truth of strategy – its purpose, place, utility, and value. This new study is animated by a startling realization: the concept of strategic victory must be summarily discarded. This is not to say that victory has no place in strategy or strategic planning. The outcome of battles and campaigns are variables within the strategist’s plan, but victory is a concept that has no meaning there. To the tactical and operational planner, wars are indeed won and lost, and the difference is plain. Success is measurable; failure is obvious. In contrast, the pure strategist understands that war is but one aspect of social and political competition, an ongoing interaction that has no finality. Strategy therefore connects the conduct of war with the intent of politics. It shapes and guides military means in anticipation of a panoply of possible coming events. In the process, strategy changes the context within which events will happen. In this new book we see clearly that the goal of strategy is not to culminate events, to establish finality in the discourse between states, but to continue them; to influence state discourse in such a way that it will go forward on favorable terms. For continue it will. This book will provoke debate and stimulate new thinking across the field and strategic studies.

Pure Strategy Power and Policy in the Space and Information Age Cass Series Strategy and History 1st Table of contents:

1 The Path of Pure Strategy
2 The End of Victory
Victory in perspective
Theories and definitions
Clausewitz, strategy, and the better state of peace
3 The Elements of Strategy
The Clausewitzian method
Differentiating grand strategy, military strategy, operations, and tactics
A theory of operational strategy
Body-count wars
Command of the battle space
4 War and Strategy, Games and Decisions
Games and decisions
Context versus structure
Where in history are we?
History, truth, and strategy
5 Principles and Rules
Rules
Principles, regimes, and values in the constitution of action
Rules, choice, and action
6 Chaos, Complexity, and War
Science, rationality, and war
Classical physics and strategy
Quantum physics and strategy
From chaos to complexity
7 Adaptation and Emergence in Strategy
Power, change, and feedback
Change and surprise in strategy
Embracing perpetual novelty
Summary
8 Principles of War
Classic principles and the order of things
Modifications and flourishes
Enduring principles of war
Time
Noise, entropy, and friction
Relativity and symmetry
Synchrony and simultaneity
Scope and scale
Choice and response
The American way of war
9 Making Strategy
Transformation and network-centric warfare
Information and networks
Network-centric warfare
Maxims for a new age
Network-centric systems design
Diversity and strategy
10 Is Strategy an Art?
Notes
1 The Path of Pure Strategy
2 The End of Victory
3 The Elements of Strategy
4 War and Strategy, Games and Decisions
5 Principles and Rules
6 Chaos, Complexity, and War
7 Adaptation And Emergence in Strategy
8 Principles of War
9 Making Strategy
10 Is Strategy an Art?

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