TY - BOOK ID - 671968 TI - Strategy : a history PY - 2013 SN - 9780199325153 0199325154 9780199349906 0199349908 9781299853485 129985348X 0199349916 0190229233 9780199349913 9780190229238 PB - Oxford : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Polemology KW - World history KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. KW - Strategic planning. KW - Strategic culture. KW - Military history. KW - Strategy KW - Planification stratégique KW - Histoire militaire KW - Stratégie KW - History. KW - Histoire KW - Political science KW - History & Theory. KW - Political scienceHistory. KW - Planification stratégique KW - Stratégie KW - Goal setting (Strategic planning) KW - Planning, Strategic KW - Strategic intent (Strategic planning) KW - Strategic management KW - Planning KW - Business planning KW - Culture KW - Military policy KW - National security KW - Military historiography KW - Military history KW - Wars KW - Historiography KW - History KW - Naval history UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:671968 AB - In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking, in a consistently engaging and insightful account of how strategy came to pervade every aspect of our lives. The range of Freedman's narrative is extraordinary, moving from the surprisingly advanced strategy practiced in primate groups, to the opposing strategies of Achilles and Odysseus in The Iliad, the strategic advice of Sun Tzu and Machiavelli, the great military innovations of Baron Henri de Jomini and Carl von Clausewit ER -