Explorations in Strategy

Subjects:

• Military Studies » Strategy & Tactics
• Military Studies » Military History

Reviews:

• Gray provides a useful overview of strategy in the post-Cold War period.... Gray is particularly on target with regard to the need to rethink the relevance of the last 50 years of nuclear deterrence.
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Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• The Challenge of Strategy
• On Strategic Performance
• The Advantages and Limitations of Sea Power: British Defense in a Joint World
• Deterrence, Still a Reliable Strategy?
• Strategy and Air Power
• The Advantages and Limitations of Air Power
• The United States as an Air Power
• Air Power and Defense Planning
• Strategy and Special Operations
• The Nature of Special Operations
• The Strategic Utility of Special Operations: Lessons of History
• Special Operations and Defense Planning
• Conclusions
• Strategy and the Revolution in Military Affairs
• Bibliography
• Index