The Strategy Bridge presents and explains the general theory of strategy and demonstrates the relevance of that theory to the real world of practice. The author explains what strategy is and how it relates to politics and warfare. The book is not 'about' the theory of strategy, rather it is that theory.

• 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.