02143cam a2200325 i 450000100090000000300040000900500170001300800410003001000170007102000180008803500130010604000100011904200080012905000210013708200280015824501080018626400550029430000300034933600260037933700280040533800270043350400510046052011170051165000140162865000380164265000360168065000380171665000360175470000270179022307446OSt20260818082509.0211112s2022    nju      b    001 0 eng    a  2021048500  a9789811244285  a22307446  cNDU-K  apcc00aU162b.S835 202200a355.02223/eng/2021111500aStrategy and defense policy for small states :bproblems and prospects /cedited by Bernard F W Loo, S. 1aHackensack, New Jersey :bWorld Scientific,c2022.  axxxii, 153 pages ;c24 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aIncludes Bibliographical references and index.  a"For students of Strategic Studies in small countries with limited financial, human and military resources, the available literature on Strategic Studies, in particular texts that seek to explain the key concepts and components of Strategic Studies, can be very alien in its focus to the strategic conditions and issues that these countries face. This book contains a collection of essays that seeks to discuss key concepts in Strategic Studies, as well as contemporary challenges in strategy and defence policy, from the perspective of small states. It is based on the idea - derived from the German philosopher of war, Carl von Clausewitz - that there is a distinction between logic and grammar: while the field of Strategic Studies contains a number of key concepts (such as geopolitics and geostrategy, strategic culture, arms dynamics and the phenomenon of military modernization) that are universal in logic, the grammar (that is, the specific manifestations of these concepts) in the contexts of small states is necessarily different from larger, more materially endowed, states"--cProvided by publisher. 0aStrategy. 0aStates, SmallxStrategic aspects. 0aStates, SmallxMilitary policy. 0aMiddle powersxStrategic aspects. 0aMiddle powersxMilitary policy.1 aLoo, Bernard Fook Weng