02200cam a2200349 i 4500 22307446 OSt 20260818082509.0 211112s2022 nju b 001 0 eng 2021048500 9789811244285 22307446 NDU-K pcc U162 .S835 2022 355.02 23/eng/20211115 Strategy and defense policy for small states : problems and prospects / edited by Bernard F W Loo, S. Hackensack, New Jersey : World Scientific, 2022. xxxii, 153 pages ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes Bibliographical references and index. "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"-- Provided by publisher. Strategy. States, Small Strategic aspects. States, Small Military policy. Middle powers Strategic aspects. Middle powers Military policy. Loo, Bernard Fook Weng lcc BKS 0 23954 23953 0 0 lcc 0 0 NDC NDC GEN 2026-08-18 0 U162 .S835 2022 364/2026 2026-08-18 c.1 2026-08-18 BKS