Libros de Colin Gray

Geopolitics And Strategic History 1871-2050

• 270 páginas
• A new explanation of the course of international politics from the rebirth of the German Empire to..

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

• 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

• What is commonly known as history is really the past, as it is often selected and preserved both by professional historians and by non-specialist citizens. The past is such a large and diverse repository of happenings, thoughts, and experiences that it...

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

• 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....

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

• What is commonly known as history is really the past, as it is often selected and preserved both by

Always Strategic

• The strategic quality of Landpower is widely known, but not widely understood. In this monograph, Dr. Colin S. Gray explores and explains the meaning of strategic Landpower. He is concerned particularly to argue that, although Landpower today must functio...

Thucydides Was Right

• To define future threat is, in a sense, an impossible task, yet it is one that must be done. In this monograph, Dr. Colin S. Gray explains that the only sources of empirical evidence accessible to us are the past and the present. We cannot obtain understa...

The Strategy Bridge: Theory For Practice

• The Strategy Bridge presents the general theory of strategy and explains the utility of..

The Implications Of Preemptive And Preventive War Doctrines

• If RMA (revolution in military affairs) was the acronym and concept of choice in the U.S. defense community in the 1990s, so preemption has threatened to supercede it in the 2000s. The trouble is that officials and many analysts have confused preemption,...

Defense Planning For National Security

• Defense planning unavoidably must be in the nature of a mystery tour. The inability to know the future is a permanent condition for defense planning, but it is one with which we must cope. This monograph by Dr. Colin S. Gray explores and examines the impl...

Defining And Achieving Decisive Victory

• The United States was thrust so suddenly into the war on terrorism that it was forced to deal with both immediate operational issues and broad strategic questions simultaneously. Even while the American military is consolidating battlefield success in...

After Iraq

• A sustainable national security strategy is feasible only when directed by a sustainable national security policy. In the absence of policy guidance, strategy will be meaningless. The only policy that meets both the mandates of American culture and the...

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

• Colin Gray presents an inventive treatise on the nature of strategy, war, and peace, organized..

War, Peace And Victory

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.

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