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Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace, Revised and Enlarged Edition
If you want peace, prepare for war. A buildup of offensive weapons can be purely defensive. The worst road may be the best route to battle.
Strategy is made of such seemingly self-contradictory propositions, Edward Luttwak shows--they exemplify the paradoxical logic that pervades the entire realm of conflict.
In this widely acclaimed work, now revised and expanded, Lutt
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Published
January 31st 2002
by Belknap Press
(first published 1987)
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I first encountered Luttwak many years ago through a book he wrote about the grand strategy of the Roman Empire. He's written many books on strategy and this, Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace, is one of the most studied and influential on the subject.
It's Luttwak's idea that strategy is being constantly practiced. Strategy is an ever-present condition whenever there are relations between nations, whether friendly or hostile. It's like borders, like the distinctions of languages, it always e ...more
It's Luttwak's idea that strategy is being constantly practiced. Strategy is an ever-present condition whenever there are relations between nations, whether friendly or hostile. It's like borders, like the distinctions of languages, it always e ...more
Довольно интересная книга, но, на мой взгляд, слишком много теории и мало практических примеров. Умиляет попытка полемики переводчика/редактора с автором посредством примечаний. В принципе это более-менее нормально, если взять перевод Второй мировой войны Черчилля, то там будут примечания какого-то отечественного историка, которые иногда именно исправления неточностей, а иногда выглядят как попытки оправдать определённые поступки советского руковдства. Но в этой книге у выпускаещего состава, вид
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Luttwak defines strategy as “the conduct and consequences of human relations in the context of actual or possible armed conflict.” He maintains that strategy is unique in its paradoxical logic, a reality illustrated by the old axiom that if one desires peace, then one should prepare for war. This example of paradox is simply the first of many from a world history rich with conflict. Luttwak’s case studies are many and varied, almost to the point of distraction. In one telling example, Luttwak sh
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This book assumed that the reader has extensive knowledge of the majority of the major conflicts in the 20th Century and their leaders. Without that knowledge, it's hard to follow the author's point.
Also, I'm pretty sure that the author doesn't know what the word "paradox" means.
Also, I'm pretty sure that the author doesn't know what the word "paradox" means.
Nov 19, 2014
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Edward Luttwak has an incredibly ability to rock the strategic Casbah. His Ph. D. dissertation started a unending debate on the nature of the Roman frontiers, Roman conceptions of foreign policy and Roman strategic planning that rages to this day. In this work he writes a compelling plucky little book on a number of strategic concepts and the nature of strategy overall. Clausewitz would blush in envy, although many of his ideas are a hyper complex version of some points made by Clausewitz. The b
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В свете современных событий очень актуально
a classic on military and national strategy
Отличная книга! Умеючи читая, можно спроецировать правила на все аспекты жизни.
Insightful book on how strategy uses its own paradoxical logic rather than normal linear logic. Strategic decisions must encompass five levels of analysis (Vertical Dimension: Technical -> Tactical -> Operational -> Theatre -> Grand) and then further examine the decisions at the horizontal grand strategy dimension (diplomacy, economics, intelligence, propaganda etc.)
Jul 31, 2012
Nlk
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표제/책임표시사항 戰略 : 戰爭과 평화의 論理 / Edward N. Luttwak 著 ; [국방대학원 역]
발행사항 [서울] : 國防大學院, 1993
형태사항 272p. ; 26cm
주기사항 원표제: Strategy : The logic of war and peace
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Brilliant. It took Luttwak three pages to demolish the central argument of BH Liddell Hart's life thesis. I loved Liddell Hart. While I have enjoyed and benefited from other works of Luttwak, this Strategy shows both his comprehension of his field and his brilliance.
This is for my history class on Germany's response to its own wartime atrocities. Fun stuff!
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Edward Nicolae Luttwak (born November 4, 1942) is a Romanian military strategist, political scientist, and historian who has published works on military strategy, history, and international relations. He also provides consulting services to governments and international enterprises including various branches of the U.S. government and the U.S. military.
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