problems and prospects Loo, Bernard Fook Weng text bibliography nju 2022 monographic eng

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xxxii, 153 pages ; 24 cm "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"-- edited by Bernard F W Loo, S. Includes Bibliographical references and index. Strategy States, Small Strategic aspects States, Small Military policy Middle powers Strategic aspects Middle powers Military policy U162 .S835 2022 355.02 9789811244285 2021048500 211112 20260818082509.0 22307446