Lawrence Freedman has been Professor of War Studies at King's College London since 1982, and Vice-Principal since 2003. Elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1995 and awarded the CBE in 1996, he was appointed Official Historian of the Falklands Campaign in 1997. He was awarded the KCMG in 2003. In June 2009 he was appointed to serve as a member of the official inquiry into Britain and the 2003 Iraq War. Professor Freedman has written extensively on nuclear strategy and the cold war, as well as commentating regularly on contemporary security issues. His most recent book, A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East, won the 2009 Lionel Gelber Prize and Duke of Westminster Medal for Military Literature.
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 Clausewitz, the grounding of revolutionary strategy in class struggles by Marx, the insights into corporate strategy found in Peter Drucker and Alfred Sloan, and the contributions of the leading social scientists working on strategy today. The core issue at the heart of strategy, the author notes, is whether it is possible to manipulate and shape our environment rather than simply become the victim of forces beyond one's control. Time and again, Freedman demonstrates that the inherent unpredictability of this environment-subject to chance events, the efforts of opponents, the missteps of friends-provides strategy with its challenge and its drama. Armies or corporations or nations rarely move from one predictable state of affairs to another, but instead feel their way through a series of states, each one not quite what was anticipated, requiring a reappraisal of the original strategy, including its ultimate objective. Thus the picture of strategy that emerges in this book is one that is fluid and flexible, governed by the starting point, not the end point.
A brilliant overview of the most prominent strategic theories in history, from David's use of deception against Goliath, to the modern use of game theory in economics, this masterful volume sums up a lifetime of reflection on strategy.
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戰無不勝的美國在越南卻大大吃瞭個敗仗。 戰爭始於越南內戰,對陣雙方是鬍誌明領導的越南共産黨和吳庭艷領導的親美政權。 二戰結束後,冷戰開始。美國的首要“安全威脅”是共産主義的力量。為避免紅色力量在越南取得勝利,從而導緻“多米諾骨牌效應”,美國不惜嚮越南派兵援助...
評分戰無不勝的美國在越南卻大大吃瞭個敗仗。 戰爭始於越南內戰,對陣雙方是鬍誌明領導的越南共産黨和吳庭艷領導的親美政權。 二戰結束後,冷戰開始。美國的首要“安全威脅”是共産主義的力量。為避免紅色力量在越南取得勝利,從而導緻“多米諾骨牌效應”,美國不惜嚮越南派兵援助...
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評分作者是這一領域的絕對權威。據我所知,國內已有齣版社買下此書版權。希望會是一個好的譯本。我把這本書的內容簡介和目錄整理瞭一下: 本書是迄今為止最為係統和雄心勃勃的策略(戰略)思維史,它生動展現瞭策略如何滲透進我們生活的每個方麵。本書從策略的起源寫起,探討瞭《...
評分作者是這一領域的絕對權威。據我所知,國內已有齣版社買下此書版權。希望會是一個好的譯本。我把這本書的內容簡介和目錄整理瞭一下: 本書是迄今為止最為係統和雄心勃勃的策略(戰略)思維史,它生動展現瞭策略如何滲透進我們生活的每個方麵。本書從策略的起源寫起,探討瞭《...
圖書標籤: 曆史 戰略 軍事 社會學 經科 社會 政治 商業
材料寬廣深厚,古典,神話,戰爭,革命,政治,商業,塞在700多頁的篇幅,如同用體重使勁關上的行李箱,難免有些堆砌和晦澀。 作者廣博毫無疑問,也有實踐經曆(顧問英國馬島戰爭)。但不認同作者的某些觀點,如其對孫子的觀點,認為衝突方如果均采用孫子戰略,則會一直處互相比劃迷惑而不交手的信號狀態;這是一種靜態教條的狹隘認識。 瑕不掩瑜,極大開闊瞭視野,仍然5分。
評分材料寬廣深厚,古典,神話,戰爭,革命,政治,商業,塞在700多頁的篇幅,如同用體重使勁關上的行李箱,難免有些堆砌和晦澀。 作者廣博毫無疑問,也有實踐經曆(顧問英國馬島戰爭)。但不認同作者的某些觀點,如其對孫子的觀點,認為衝突方如果均采用孫子戰略,則會一直處互相比劃迷惑而不交手的信號狀態;這是一種靜態教條的狹隘認識。 瑕不掩瑜,極大開闊瞭視野,仍然5分。
評分材料寬廣深厚,古典,神話,戰爭,革命,政治,商業,塞在700多頁的篇幅,如同用體重使勁關上的行李箱,難免有些堆砌和晦澀。 作者廣博毫無疑問,也有實踐經曆(顧問英國馬島戰爭)。但不認同作者的某些觀點,如其對孫子的觀點,認為衝突方如果均采用孫子戰略,則會一直處互相比劃迷惑而不交手的信號狀態;這是一種靜態教條的狹隘認識。 瑕不掩瑜,極大開闊瞭視野,仍然5分。
評分An exemplary work of academic writing, in terms of conceptualization and operationalization, and framing. 然而聽得並不走心
評分寫軍事策略、政治策略(包括民權運動、工會鬥爭等)和商業策略。我原以為自己會最喜歡軍事策略部分,結果發現,現代軍事策略已經發展到非常抽象的程度,遠遠beyond我這種扶手椅軍事傢瞭。。。政治和商業策略的部分都非常精彩
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