Grand Strategy


On Grand Strategy
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000
The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire from the First Century AD to the Third
Diplomacy
On War
Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire
Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace
The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery
Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
American Diplomacy (Walgreen Foundation Lectures)
Special Providence
History of the Peloponnesian War
Strategy
Robert D. Kaplan
Grand strategy is about marrying ends to means, about doing what you can, consistent with the nation's capabilities and resources. ...more
Robert D. Kaplan, Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World

John Lewis Gaddis
I’ll define that term, for the purposes of this book, as the alignment of potentially unlimited aspirations with necessarily limited capabilities. If you see ends beyond your means, then sooner or later you’ll have to scale back your ends to fit your means. Expanding means may attain more ends, but not all ends can be infinite and means never can be. Whatever balance you strike, there’ll be a link between what’s real and what’s imagined: between your current location and your intended destinatio ...more
John Lewis Gaddis, On Grand Strategy

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