Libros de Colin Gray

Geopolitics, Geography And Strategic History

• This work explains the course of international politics from the rebirth of the German Empire to the rise of China, with particular, though not exclusive, reference to spatial relationships.

Schools For Strategy

• All would-be strategists would benefit by some formal education. However, for education in strategy to be well-directed, it needs to rest upon sound assumptions concerning the eternal nature yet ever shifting character, meaning, and function of strategy,...

Irregular Enemies And The Essence Of Strategy

• Strategist Colin Gray offers a detailed comparison between the character of irregular warfare, insurgency in particular, and the principal enduring features of "the American way." He concludes that there is a serious mismatch between that "way"...

Hard Power And Soft Power: The Utility Of Military Force As An Instrument Of Policy In The 21st Century

• 72 páginas
• Commentators distinguish between two kinds of power, ?hard? and ?soft.? The promise in this logic is obvious. Unfortunately, to date, the idea of soft power has not been subjected to a critical forensic examination. The ill consequences of America?s diffi...

The Airpower Advantage In Future Warfare

• The U.S. has long suffered from a serious strategy deficit. In short, there is a general crisis of strategic comprehension, a lack of agreement on the most effective organizing ideas. Airpower is by no means lonely in suffering from strategic theoretical...

What Should The U.s. Army Learn From History? Recovery From A Strategy Deficit

• 70 páginas
• Does history repeat itself? This monograph clearly answers "no," firmly. However, it does not argue that an absence of repetition in the sense of analogy means that history can have no utility for the soldier today. This monograph argues for...

The Strategy Bridge

• 336 páginas
• The Strategy Bridge: Theory for Practice is an original contribution to the general theory of strategy. While heavily indebted to Carl von Clausewitz, Sun-tzu, and the very few other classic authors, this book presents the theory, rather than merely comme...

Fighting Talk: Forty Maxims On War, Peace, And Strategy

• 208 páginas
• Colin Gray presents an inventive treatise on the nature of strategy, war, and peace, organized around forty maxims. This collection of mini essays will forearm politicians, soldiers, and the attentive general public against many—probably...

War, Peace And Victory

• From Simon & Schuster, War, Peace, and Victory is Colin S. Gray's exploration of strategy

Airpower For Strategic Effect

• Airpower for Strategic Effect is intended to contribute to the understanding of airpower-what it is, what it does, why it does it, and what the consequences are. This is the plot: airpower generates strategic effect. Airpower’s product...

Strategy For Chaos

• 310 páginas
• In this volume, Professor Colin Gray develops and applies the theory and scholarship on the allegedly historical practice of the 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA), in order to improve our comprehension of how and why strategy 'works'....

Modern Strategy P

• Modern Strategy explains the permanent nature, but ever changing character, of strategy in

Explorations In Strategy