Strategy for chaos : revolutions in military affairs and the evidence of history /
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| Author / Creator: | Gray, Colin S. |
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| Imprint: | London ; Portland, OR : Frank Cass, 2002. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 310 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cass series--strategy and history, 1473-6403 ; 2 Cass series--strategy and history ; 2. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11298620 |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1. High concept: strategy, complex and sometimes nonlinear
- the argument
- history and social science
- the making of a great debate
- method and trajectory
- Part 2. RMA anatomy - patterns in history?: warning label
- anatomy of species
- a question of continuity
- Part 3. RMA dynamics: provenance
- RMA life-cycle
- clarifying confusion
- Part 4. On strategy, 1 - chaos confounded?: what is strategic?
- permanent nature, changing character
- chaos and prediction
- is strategy chaotic?
- Part 5. On strategy, 2 -the RMA connection: RMS as strategic behaviour
- a matter of dimension
- theory and practice
- Part 6. Case study 1 - the Napoleonic RMA: Napoleon and modern war
- RMA life-cycle
- strategic behaviour
- Part 7. Case study 2 - the RMA of the First World War: the great artillery war
- RMA life-cycle
- strategic behaviour
- Part 8. Case study 3 - the nuclear RMA: two revolutions
- RMA life-cycle
- strategic behaviour
- Part 9. Strategy as a duel - RMA meets the enemy: politics and RMAs
- envoi -strategy and history