Military Strategy: Principles, Practices, and Historical Perspectives

Provides an overview of the principles, theories, policies, and other fundamentals of modern warfare and their applications in the twenty-first century

Booknews

A textbook written for use in American military academies. Dealing primarily with the theoretical debates over military strategy, five sections discuss national security interests, objectives, and policies; schools of thought and other fundamentals; assorted military strategies across the conflict spectrum from nonlethal combat to weapons of mass destruction, ways to develop strategic thinkers; and case studies of competing strategies in Bosnia- Herzegovina and Kosovo. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

John M. Collins is a retired U.S. Army colonel and a distinguished visiting research fellow at the National Defense University. Collins culminated his military career as the director of military strategy studies and then as chief of the Strategic Research Group at the National War College. He was subsequently the senior specialist in national defense at the Congressional Research Service for twenty-four years. Collins has written twelve books and numerous monographs, including Strategy: Principles, Practices, and Historical Perspectives. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia.