Hew Strachan: How is War directed? The Problem of Strategy
Strategy has attracted much recent attention in UK public policy debates, principally because of its absence from the direction of current conflicts. Before 1945 strategic thought used history as its core discipline but since then history has either dropped out of the equation or been misapplied. There was admittedly an apparent contradiction in strategic theory's attention to the past; the principal policy function of strategy is predictive and its application in real time pragmatic. Here the challenges are to reconcile not just the perspectives of strategic theory and strategy in practice, but also the differences between civilians and the military. Finding satisfactory institutional frameworks for strategy-making is as important as thinking strategically.
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I've read Strachan's book of Clausewitz's Art of War. It is the best of all scientific studies altogether that I've ever read, and a good example of one if you're about to study things of any topic. The book is comprehensive with a mass of information although it is short and easy to read! :-)
@chaollapark7739
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You'll love "understanding modern warfare "
While I understand the reasons for General Sir John Hackett's books having fallen out of favour I think this is myopic. Given that the world came within hours of world war 3 on a number of occasions, and given just how authoritative the list of contributing authors was, I feel that The Third Wold War and its sequel are still entirely relevant to strategic thinking.
So, when is volume two of _The First World War_ coming out?
Why don't more people enjoy learning?
"Why don't more people enjoy learning?" Because no one likes to be brought face to face with their own ignorance. You need to be made aware of your own lack of knowledge before you can work on correcting it. Far too many would love to believe they were born knowing everything.
@christophervaughan2637
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We are born knowing everything, then we forget it due to temptation
@AnIdiotsLantern
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@@christophervaughan2637 a fantastic excuse to never learn anything. Knowledge is progressive, not regressive.
@christophervaughan2637
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@@AnIdiotsLantern can you please say what is knowledge? Also can you define what is progressive and regressive?
@AnIdiotsLantern
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@@christophervaughan2637 nah. I don’t feel like it. Google is free.
@christophervaughan2637
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@@AnIdiotsLantern I understand: it’s beyond your knowledge 😉
i guess one has to have read most of the books he is mentioning in the beginning of the video to understand his points.
Arguments from paret?