TY  - BOOK
AU  - Black,Jeremy
TI  - Military Strategy: A global history 
SN  - 9780300270365
AV  - U162 .B64 2020
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
N2  - "Strategy has existed as long as there has been organised conflict. In this ground-breaking account, Jeremy Black explores the ever-changing relationship between purpose, force, implementation and effectiveness in military strategy and its dramatic impact on the development of the global power system. Taking a "total" view of strategy, Black looks at leading powers-notably the United States, China, Britain, and Russia-in the wider context of their competition and their domestic and international strengths. Ranging from France's ancien régime and Britain's empire building to present-day conflicts in the Middle East, Black devotes particular attention to the strategic practice and decisions of the Kangxi Emperor, Clausewitz, Napoleon, and Hitler"--
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