The Shaping of Grand Strategy ：Policy, Diplomacy, and War

Publication subTitle ：Policy, Diplomacy, and War

Author： Williamson Murray; Richard Hart Sinnreich; James Lacey

Publisher： Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year： 2011

E-ISBN: 9781139065450

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521761260

Subject： D502 (GENERAL)

Keyword：军事史

Language： ENG

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The Shaping of Grand Strategy

Description

Within a variety of historical contexts, The Shaping of Grand Strategy addresses the most important tasks states have confronted: namely, how to protect their citizens against the short-range as well as long-range dangers their polities confront in the present and may confront in the future. To be successful, grand strategy demands that governments and leaders chart a course that involves more than simply reacting to immediate events. Above all, it demands they adapt to sudden and major changes in the international environment, which more often than not involves the outbreak of great conflicts but at times demands recognition of major economic, political, or diplomatic changes. This collection of essays explores the successes as well as failures of great states attempting to create grand strategies that work and aims at achieving an understanding of some of the extraordinary difficulties involved in casting, evolving and adapting grand strategy to the realities of the world.

Chapter

1 Thoughts on grand strategy

Understanding grand strategy

Geography and grand strategy

The nature of government and grand strategy

The importance of individuals to the making of grand strategy

Alliances and grand strategy

The sustaining of grand strategy

Conclusion

2 The grand strategy of the grand siècle: Learning from the wars of Louis XIV

The wars of louis xiv

The unique character of the grand siècle

Defining the failure and success of louis xiv

Shortcomings in the grand strategy of louis xiv

The pursuit of glory

Unilateralism

The quest for absolute security

The paradox of reputation and the need for transparency

Overstretch

Success in failure: conforming to the international system

Posing the gandhi question

Conclusion

3 Strategic culture and the Seven Years’ War

4 Strategy as character: Bismarck and the Prusso-German question, 1862–1878

5 About turn: British strategic transformation from Salisbury to Grey

The changing operating environment

Emerging strategic challenges

The political context

Trouble – east, west, and south

Colonial friction

Inflection point: the second boer war

Turmoil in china

Entente Cordiale

Military transformation

Aftermath

6 British grand strategy, 1933–1942

The influence of the past and idle hopes

The unraveling of europe

Grand strategy and the road to war

Grand strategy on the outbreak of war

On the brink: a new grand strategy?

The squadrons stayed home

Conclusion

7 Toward a strategy: Creating an American strategy for global war, 1940–1943

The joint chiefs craft a strategy

The logistical sinews of strategy

Crafting a military strategy

Casablanca

Roosevelt as a strategist

8 Harry S. Truman and the forming of American grand strategy in the Cold War, 1945–1953

Background

Functions and contexts

Cometh the hour, cometh the man?

Command performance: contested narratives

1 What was attempted and done, 1945–1953?

2 Why was it done?

3 How well was it done?

4 How dangerous was it to do?

Conclusion: harry truman's leadership– the assessment

9 Patterns of grand strategy

Index

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