1st Edition

Pure Strategy Power and Principle in the Space and Information Age

By Everett Dolman Copyright 2005
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

A stimulating new inquiry into the fundamental truth of strategy - its purpose, place, utility, and value. This new study is animated by a startling realization: the concept of strategic victory must be summarily discarded. This is not to say that victory has no place in strategy or strategic planning. The outcome of battles and campaigns are variables within the... Read more

1. The path of pure strategy  2. The end of victory  3. The elements of strategy  4. War and strategy, games and decisions  5. Principles and rules  6. Chaos, Complexity and war  7. Adaptation and emergence in strategy  8. Principles of war  9. Making strategy  10. Is strategy an art?

Biography

 Everett Carl Dolman is Professor of Strategy at the US Air Force's Air  War College (AWC) and Visiting Professor of Space Strategy at Johns Hopkins University, SAIS.