Preface
Introduction: Surviving Clausewitz
PART I: THEORY
1: The Theory of Strategy, I: Enduring Nature, Changing
Character
2: The Theory of Strategy, II: Construction, Execution, and
Consequences
3: Politics, War, and Strategy
PART II: PRACTICE
4: Problems with Strategy: Often a Bridge too Far
5: The Product: Strategic Effect
6: Strategy, Strategists, and Command Performance: Joining Up the
Dots
PART III: CONTEXT AND PURPOSE
7: Conclusion: Bandit Country and the Strategist's Quest for
Control
Appendices
Appendix A The Dicta of Strategy
Appendix B General Strategic Theory, the Classical Canon
Appendix C Conceptual 'Hueys' at Thermopylae? The Challenge of
Strategic Anachronism
Appendix D Potent Trinities: Fourteen Skeleton Keys of Theory for
the Strategist
Bibliography
Dr. Colin S. Gray is Professor of International Politics and
Strategic Studies at the University of Reading in England. He is a
dual US-UK citizen and serves as an adviser in Washington, DC, and
London. He was educated in England at the Universities of
Manchester and Oxford. Dr. Gray has taught at universities in
Britain, Canada, and the United States, has been assistant director
of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London), and
worked with Herman
Kahn at the Hudson Institute before founding the National Institute
for Public Policy in Washington. From 1982 until 1987 he held a
presidential appointment on the President's Advisory Committee
on
Arms Control and Disarmament.
`One of the most detailed and important investigations of the
concept of strategy published in recent decades.'
C.Dale Walton, Lindenwood University
`It would be professional malfeasance . . . to overlook The
Strategy Bridge.'
Bradford Lee, Journal of Strategic Studies
`it is far more than a textbook, though it certainly can and should
be used for instructional purposes. In terms of rigor, Strategy
Bridge is every bit as scientific as Clausewitz's On War, but much
more accessible . . . It's synthetic nature and analytic rigor make
Colin Gray's Strategy Bridge a necessary, and welcome, addition to
any educator's already vast library of works on strategy.'
Antulio J Echevarria II, US Army War College
`Gray is a prolific writer on strategy . . . It could be said that
Gray has positioned himself in pole position as a strategic
thinker. Few other contemporary writers can rival him, and none has
been so consistent in trying to develop a general theory, distilled
largely, but not entirely from Clauswitz's On War. '
Christopher Coker, RUSI Journal
`what Gray has provided here is more than ample as a base line work
for anyone who wishes to get serious about strategy.'
William F. Owen, Infinity Journal
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