strategy

The Definitive Book on Strategy
In Strategy, Lawrence Freedman compiles the vast history of strategic thought: a highly interesting, coherent, and profound essay that reveals the extent to which strategy permeates all aspects of our existence. Freedman begins the journey into the origins of strategy by studying the most relevant aspects of the Bible, ancient Greek myths, Sun Tzu's book, and Machiavelli's work. Next, a masterful review of military strategy, with nuanced readings of Carl von Clausewitz's texts to nuclear strategies of the 1950s, counterinsurgency models, and the so-called "revolution" in military affairs. His analysis of political strategy begins with Marx's revolutionary analysis of politics and ends with Obama's presidential campaigns. Freedman adds to all this a complete historical account of business strategy, covering all the ideas of the great theorists on the subject, from Frederick Winslow Taylor to Alfred Sloan and Peter Drucker. This prodigious essay concludes with a study of contemporary Social Sciences and analyzes the extent to which this discipline has shaped our idea of the concept "strategy."

The Definitive Book on Strategy
In Strategy, Lawrence Freedman compiles the vast history of strategic thought: a highly interesting, coherent, and profound essay that reveals the extent to which strategy permeates all aspects of our existence. Freedman begins the journey into the origins of strategy by studying the most relevant aspects of the Bible, ancient Greek myths, Sun Tzu's book, and Machiavelli's work. Next, a masterful review of military strategy, with nuanced readings of Carl von Clausewitz's texts to nuclear strategies of the 1950s, counterinsurgency models, and the so-called "revolution" in military affairs. His analysis of political strategy begins with Marx's revolutionary analysis of politics and ends with Obama's presidential campaigns. Freedman adds to all this a complete historical account of business strategy, covering all the ideas of the great theorists on the subject, from Frederick Winslow Taylor to Alfred Sloan and Peter Drucker. This prodigious essay concludes with a study of contemporary Social Sciences and analyzes the extent to which this discipline has shaped our idea of the concept "strategy."