This collection of essays by Prof. Beatrice Heuser combines historical research with cutting-edge analysis and makes a significant contribution to the study of the history of strategic thinking.

Beatrice Heuser is Professor of International Relations at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and currently a visiting professor at the Sorbonne and at Sciences Po in Paris. She is the author of many books, including The Evolution of Strategy (2010) and Reading Clausewitz (2002).

Preface

1. Was Strategy Practised before the Word was Used?

2. Christine de Pizan, the first Modern Strategist: Good Governance and Conflict Mediation

3. The Military Revolution as seen by Contemporaries

4. The Invention of Modern Maritime Strategies: The Anglo-Spanish War of 1585-1604

5. A National Security Strategy for England: Matthew Sutcliffe, the Earl of Essex, and the Cadiz Expedition of 1596

6. Command of the Sea: the Origins of a Strategic Concept

7. Lazarus Schwendi, Raimondo Montecuccoli and the Turkish Wars: Peaceful Coexistence or Roll-Back?

8. Guibert: Prophet of Total War?

9. What Clausewitz Read: On the Origins of some of his Key Ideas