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Pure Strategy: Power and Policy in the Space and Information Age (Strategy and History)
A stimulating new inquiry into the fundamental truth of strategy - its purpose, place, utility, and value.
This new study is animated by a startling realization: the concept of strategic victory must be summarily discarded. This is not to say that victory has no place in strategy or strategic planning. The outcome of battles and campaigns are variables within the strategist ...more
This new study is animated by a startling realization: the concept of strategic victory must be summarily discarded. This is not to say that victory has no place in strategy or strategic planning. The outcome of battles and campaigns are variables within the strategist ...more
Hardcover, 218 pages
Published
June 23rd 2005
by Frank Cass Publishers
(first published April 14th 2004)
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Wow, incredible treatise on strategy based on a quantum, adaptive, net-centric, and politically-constrained model of modern warfare -- all driving toward continuation vs culmination. Perhaps the most influential book on strategy for me - especially with regard to the definition of "winning/losing," and what role the "end state" plays in strategy. While I have minor disagreements with Dolman on strategic openness (vs secrecy) and the implications of stealth on command of the air, this book clearl
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A book about the "philosophy of strategy." Dolman's focus is on drawing and emphasising the distinction between the tactician and the strategist. He does this successfully through an examination of the sciences of decision-making, chaos and complexity. Though parts of the book are difficult to fully comprehend (I'm still coming to terms with the coin-toss tree), overall Dolman does an excellent job of establishing the basic tenets of the philosophy of science. Though I walk away from this book w
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Excellent book by Dr. Dolman. Although you only need to read the first 50 pages to get the meat of the text!
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