The Practice of Strategy: From Alexander the Great to the Present - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199608636 ISBN 13: 9780199608638

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2011

Synopsis

Focuses on grand strategy and military strategy as practiced over an extended period of time and under very different circumstances, from the campaigns of Alexander the Great to insurgencies and counter-insurgencies in present-day Afghanistan and Iraq

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About the Author

John Andreas Olsen is Visiting Professor of Operational Art and Tactics at the Swedish National Defence College. Previously, he was the Dean of the Norwegian Defence University College and Head of its division for Strategic Studies. He is an active-duty colonel in the Norwegian Air Force and a graduate of the German Command and Staff College (2005). Recent assignments include tours as the Norwegian liaison officer to the German Operational Command in Potsdam and as the military assistant to the attaché in Berlin. Olsen has a doctorate in history and international relations from De Montfort University, a master's degree in contemporary British literature and politics from the University of Warwick, and a master's degree in English from the University of Trondheim. He is deputy commander and chief of the NATO Advisory Team at NATO Headquarters, Sarajevo.

Colin S. Gray is currently at the Department of International Politics and Strategic Studies at the University of Reading. He has written pioneering and controversial studies on nuclear strategy, arms control, maritime strategy, and geopolitics. He is the author of twenty books, more than 300 articles, and several dozen reports for governments. His most recent publications include Forty Maxims on War, Peace, and Strategy (2007) and The Strategy Bridge: Theory for Practice (2011). He is a strategic theorist and defence analyst at the University of Reading, he has worked in Britain, Canada, and the United States.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199608636
• ISBN 13: 9780199608638
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 334
• Editor: Olsen John Andreas, Gray Colin S.