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Military Strategy

A Very Short Introduction

Author: Antulio J. Echevarria II   Series: Very Short Introductions

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Military Strategy: A Very Short Introduction adapts Clausewitz's framework to highlight the dynamic relationship between the main elements of strategy: purpose, method, and means. Drawing on historical examples, Antulio J. Echevarria discusses the major types of military strategy and how emerging technologies are affecting them. This second edition has been updated to include an expanded chapter on manipulation through cyberwarfare and new further reading.

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Military Strategy: A Very Short Introduction adapts Clausewitz's framework to highlight the dynamic relationship between the main elements of strategy: purpose, method, and means. Drawing on historical examples, Antulio J. Echevarria discusses the major types of military strategy and how emerging technologies are affecting them. This second edition has been updated to include an expanded chapter on manipulation through cyberwarfare and new further reading.

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Distilling the ideas of the greatest military theoreticians of history, including Sun Tzu, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Carl von Clausewitz, this clear and engaging Very Short Introduction presents a fascinating account of the "art of the general." Antulio J. Echevarria II highlights the dynamic relationship between the main elements of strategy: purpose, method, and means. Drawing on historical examples, he discusses the major types of military strategyand how emerging technologies are affecting them. This second edition has been updated throughout, and now includes an extended chapter on cyberwarfare which shows how the use of social mediaplatforms to influence opinions on political views and manipulate populations to act in certain ways has evolved from an art to a science.

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About the Author

Antulio J. Echevarria II is Professor of Strategy and General Douglas MacArthur Chair of Research, US Army War College. He is the author of a number of books, including War's Logic: Strategic Thought and the American Way of War and Clausewitz and Contemporary War.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Published
26th September 2024
Edition
2nd
Pages
160
ISBN
9780197760154

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