After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. This revised volume contains several new essays and updated introductions to each section. The volume comprises hard-to-find classics in the field as well as the latest scholarship. : Thomas G. Mahnken, Joseph A. Maiolo. Filling a large gap in the market, it will guide students through both the theoretical and practical aspects of Strategic Studies. Mahnken, Thomas G., and Joseph A. Maiolo, eds. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Please choose a different delivery location or purchase from another seller. Use the Amazon App to scan ISBNs and compare prices. Strategic Studies: A Reader. The second edition of Strategic Studies: A Reader brings together key essays on strategic theory by some of the leading contributors to the field. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. This new Reader brings together key essays on strategic theory by some of the leading contributors in the field. Please try again. It guides students through both the theoretical and practical aspects of Strategic Studies, and includes both classic essays and works of contemporary scholarship. or a long list of more deserving authors? This revised volume contains several new essays and updated introductions to each section. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2021, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, National & International Security (Books), instruments of war: land, sea, and air power. The second edition of Strategic Studies: A Reader brings together key essays on strategic theory by some of the leading contributors to the field. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. Please try again. He previously served as a Professor of Strategy at the US Naval War College and a Visiting Fellow at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies at the Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. For some reason, Adam Roberts is given 22 pages to pontificate about the meaning of history, terrorism, strategy, and life, when some of the other chapters were cut down to 3 pages, but his potentially comprehensive view is seen from 2004 and is a rambling collection of observations and opinions cobbled together from three separate speeches/editorials. Hew Strachan has his own musings on strategy that too belonged in an introduction to the concept of strategy. This revised volume contains several new essays and updated introductions to each section. Please try again. Unable to add item to List. Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2016. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. This revised volume contains several new essays and updated introductions to each section. This bar-code number lets you verify that you're getting exactly the right version or edition of a book. Could have used more Clausewitz, and more air/sea/PGM and less insurgency/terrorism. -- Colin S. Gray, University of Reading, UK, 'a fine collection of strategic thought' -- Journal of Military History, 'An essential text for anyone interested in the development of strategic ideas.' Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2014. Filling a large gap in the market, it will guide students through both the theoretical and practical aspects of Strategic Studies. This Reader brings together key essays on strategic theory by some of the leading contributors to the field - this revised edition contains several new essays and revised introductions to each section. Where is Clausewitz? Michael Evans writes the shortest, shallowest analysis of war since the invasion of Afghanistan and illustrates the dubious criteria by which the editors were selecting. Arms and Influence: U.S. Technology Innovations and the Evolution of International Security Norms, Cultural Realism: Strategic Culture and Grand Strategy in Chinese History, Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals, Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief. Filling a large gap in the market, ... Show synopsis This new Reader brings together key essays on strategic theory by some of the leading contributors in the field. Part III covers "land, sea, and air power" - here we get our first review piece, by Brian Holden Reid, of Fuller and Liddell Hart - if only the reader had more reviews of this type, like "Makers of Modern Strategy". Joseph A. Maiolo is Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the Department of War Studies, Kings College London. They touch a little on every subject field of strategy, especially with the amount of information that needs to be covered. -- Theo Farrell, Kings College London, UK, 'By a wide margin this is the premier Reader in the field of Strategic Studies. "The second edition of Strategic Studies: A Reader brings together key essays on strategic theory by some of the leading contributors to the field. NEW DIRECTIONS IN STRATEGIC THINKING 2 .0 152 There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. This new Reader brings together key essays on strategic theory by some of the leading contributors in the field. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Overall, Strategic Studies: a Reader is a positive addition to the literature. Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2015. This revised volume contains several new essays and updated introductions to each section. 464pp. Colin S. Gray has the only thought-provoking chapter in Part VI and he muses on strategy in a way that belonged in the introduction to this reader. He is co-editor of The Journal of Strategic Studies. -- Eliot A. Cohen, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC, 'This superb volume provides an essential primer for any student of strategic studies.' Your selected delivery location is beyond seller's shipping coverage for this item. Most of the authors seem to be associated with the War Studies Department at Kings College London and the readings betray an Anglo-centrism that will irritate foreign readers; also the selection betrays strategic conservatism and backward thinking, which are the last things we need in a post-9/11 world. O Scribd é o maior site social de leitura e publicação do mundo. Even the title is misleading - it sounds like a book on strategic thought, but it is a mix of old philosophy and more recent epistemological pretensions, some of it about strategy, but mostly narrow historical events and high-minded hand-wringing about concepts, and none of it more recent than 2005. This new Reader brings together key essays on strategic theory by some of the leading contributors in the field. The volume comprises hard-to-find classics in the field as well as the latest scholarship. 'A brilliant, and unlike most edited collections, coherent, collection of essays by masters past and present on the theory and practice of strategy. The volume comprises hard-to-find classics in the field as well as the latest scholarship. In 2005-06 he was Visiting Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of Defence Studies. ABSTRACT The second edition of Strategic Studies: A Reader brings together key essays on strategic theory by some of the leading contributors to the field. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Joseph A. Maiolo is Professor of International History in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, UK. He is author of The Royal Navy and Nazi Germany, 1933-39 (1998) and co-editor (with Robert Boyce) of The Origins of World War Two: The Debate Continues (2005). -- Stephan Fruehling, Australian National University, Canberra, ‘The new volume makes an excellent contribution to the study of strategy, and to the ongoing debate on the complexity of strategy and the connection between security and strategy. This revised volume contains several new essays and updated introductions to each section. Part V is on Irregular Warfare and here the editors invest space for 5 authors, with two arbitrarily selected practitioners (Lawrence of Arabia and Mao Tse Tung), without admitting that both authors practised warfare completely differently to how they wrote about it. A superb primer for any and all students of the subject.' The volume comprises hard-to … Including classic essays and works of contemporary scholarship, the volume provides a wide-ranging survey of the key ideas and themes in the field of Strategic Studies. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. He is author of Uncovering Ways of War: U.S. Intelligence and Foreign Military Innovation, 1918-1941 (2002). It is also a great and highly recommended teaching tool for advanced course on strategic studies.' Strategic Studies: A Reader, Routledge, London, 2008. - this selectivity illustrates the problem with readers: instead of an overview of strategy or of the classics, we get a misleading selection without any context. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Thomas G. Mahnken currently serves as the US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy Planning. The book contains six extensive sections, each of which is prefaced by a short introductory essay: Overall, this volume strikes a balance between theoretical works, which seek to discover generalisations about the nature of modern strategy, and case studies, which attempt to ground the study of strategy in the realities of modern war. He is co-editor of the Journal of Strategic Studies. New York: Routledge, 2008. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. This new edition will be essential reading for all students of strategic studies, security studies, military history and war studies, as well as for professional military college students. So it was with this reader. The volume comprises hard-to-find classics in the field as well as the latest scholarship. The second edition of Strategic Studies: A Reader brings together key essays on strategic theory by some of the leading contributors to the field. Liddell Hart, The Revolution in Warfare, Faber, London, 1946, p. 76. He is co-editor of the Journal of Strategic Studies. Please try again. The second edition of Strategic Studies: A Reader brings together key essays on strategic theory by some of the leading contributors to the field. Please try again. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. There was a problem loading your book clubs. So clearly we're not learning about nuclear strategy - just early Cold War prospects. New York: Routledge, 2008. This revised volume contains several new essays and updated introductions to each section. David Galula on Counterinsurgency Warfare is excellent, but the only academic analysis in the whole reader and one that is over 40 years old. The selections are frustratingly parochial. The second edition of Strategic Studies: A Reader brings together key essays on strategic theory by some of the leading contributors to the field. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. The second edition of Strategic Studies: A Reader brings together key essays on strategic theory by some of the leading contributors to the field. 2 reviews. Striking a balance between theoretical essays and case studies, the Strategic Studies Reader will be essential reading for all students of strategic studies, international security and modern warfare, as well as for professional military students. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. Part VI covers "future warfare, future strategy" starting with Andrew Krepenevich, who is excellent, on the "revolution in military affairs", but that topic is 20 years old now. The volume comprises hard-to-find classics in the field as well as the latest scholarship. Still, a good selection. I was one of those poor students. These readers must be very profitable for all involved, but they straitjacket the field around a new orthodoxy as defined by the inner circle of the field, a handful of incestuous friends, hangers-on, and favorites, without offering anything new, while forcing us to read some stuff that is out of date and disproved by more recent scholarship. Strategic Studies: A Reader. Use the Amazon App to scan ISBNs and compare prices. Strategic Studies-Thomas G. Mahnken 2014-01-10 The second edition of Strategic Studies: A Reader brings together key essays on strategic theory by some of the Strategic Studies: A Reader. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Strategic Studies. Routledge; 2nd edition (February 13, 2014). Thomas G. Mahnken is currently Jerome E. Levy Chair of Economic Geography and National Security at the US Naval War College. Part II covers "the classics" but again includes only 3 authors: Sun Tzu, I agree; Liddell Hart, highly controversial; Thomas Schelling, belongs in a chapter on nuclear strategy. Mahnken, a former professor at the Naval War College, is currently visiting fellow and professo-rial lecturer in the Strategic Studies Pro- Great foundation for Strategic Studies. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. The second edition of Strategic Studies: A Reader brings together key essays on strategic theory by some of the leading contributors to the field. The second edition of Strategic Studies: A Reader brings together key essays on strategic theory by some of the leading contributors to the field. This revised volume contains several new essays and updated introductions to each section. Everything is great - item is working well! Part I covers the "uses of strategic theory" but none of the three authors (Bernard Brodie, Lawrence Freedman, William Fuller) talks about the uses, instead they give short lectures on favored concepts like "power", leaving the book with no proper review of strategy. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. He is editor (with Emily O. Goldman) of The Information Revolution in Military Affairs in Asia (2004) and (with Richard K. Betts) Paradoxes of Strategic Intelligence: Essays in Honor of Michael I. Handel (Frank Cass, 2003). To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. He is also a Visiting Scholar at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies at The Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). This revised volume contains several new essays and updated introductions to each section. It comprises six thematic sections, each of which has an Editors’ Introduction and suggestions for further reading: Striking a balance between theoretical essays and case studies, the Strategic Studies Reader will be essential reading for all students of strategic studies, international security and modern warfare, as well as for professional military students. This new Reader brings together key essays on strategic theory by some of the leading contributors in the field. For research as well as teaching it is an invaluable resource.' 464pp. Strategic Studies: A reader By Thomas G. Mahnken and Joseph A. Maiolo Topics: Military, Strategi This revised volume contains several new essays and updated introductions to each section. The volume comprises hard-to-find classics in the field as well as the latest scholarship. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2021, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, Instruments of War, Intelligence and Deception. $49.95 Tom Mahnken and Joseph Maiolo will not be unfamiliar to readers of the Naval War College Review or to students of strategy and policy. Please try again. By the way, this chapter is based on the most recently published article in the whole reader and it was published in 2005. Napoleon? Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! It cannot be used alone, but was not intended to be a single, definitive source. Part IV is on Nuclear Strategy, with two chapters, one by an author we had heard from already in Part I, the other published slightly more recently - in 1959! Tom Mahnken and Joseph Maiolo will not be unfamiliar to readers of the Na- val War College Review or to students of strategy and policy. Certain authors and publishers seem to prefer the production of "readers" - collections of chapters or papers published by others, usually their friends, apparently for those same friends to assign as readings to their students. The aim is to provide students with a wide-ranging survey of the key issues in strategic studies, and to provide an introduction to the main ideas and themes in the field. But then this reader delivers Julian Corbett on maritime strategy - apparently, one short selection from a book published in 1911, mostly about medieval sea fighting, is supposed to help us struggle with naval warfare today...The chapter on Air Power is worse - Richard Overy on deterrence theory before 1939, clearly chosen as a friend rather than on the merits of such a narrow topic, because it is followed by a chapter on the air war in Kosovo and resulting debate, which gives us much more food for thought on air strategy. The second edition of Strategic Studies: A Reader brings together key essays on strategic theory by some of the leading contributors to the field. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. For a revised attempt at the same points, see the US edition, published by Yale University Press in 1947. This revised volume contains several new essays and updated introductions to each section. $49.95 Tom Mahnken and Joseph Maiolo will not be unfamiliar to readers of theNa-val War College Reviewor to students of strategy and policy. Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2012. Part V contains the only chapter on terrorism, which is a surprise given the date of publication, and the chapter is a highly conservative interpretation of terrorism through classical strategic thought. Strategic Studies Reader will be essential reading for all students of strategic studies, international security and modern warfare, as well as for professional military students. He is the author of Uncovering Ways of War: U.S. Intelligence and Foreign Military Innovation, 1918-1941 (2002), (with James R. FitzSimonds) The Limits of Transformation: Officer Attitudes toward the Revolution in Military Affairs (2003), Technology and the American Way of War Since 1945 (2008), and Uncovering Ways of War: U.S. Intelligence and Foreign Military Innovation, 1918-1941 (2012). In the end, the experience is like eating a bag of dog biscuits in the dark before you find the odd small candy. This bar-code number lets you verify that you're getting exactly the right version or edition of a book. Product Information. -- Mohiaddin Mesbahi, Florida International University. There was a problem loading your book clubs. He is author of The Royal Navy and Nazi Germany: A study in appeasement and the origins of the Second World War (1998) and Cry Havoc: How the Arms Race Drove the World to War 1931-1941 (2010); co-author of An International History of the Twentieth Century (Routledge, 2004, 2008); and co-editor (with Robert Boyce) The Origins of World War Two: The Debate Continues (2005). The volume comprises hard-to-find classics in the field as well as the latest scholarship. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Synopsis This new reader brings together key essays on strategic theory by some of the leading contributors in the field. Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! The 13-digit and 10-digit formats both work. The 13-digit and 10-digit formats both work. He is co-editor of The Journal of Strategic Studies. 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