Europe’s Grand Strategy: The Search for a Postmodern Realism

2007 ◽  
pp. 12-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascal Vennesson
Keyword(s):  
Grand Strategy

Saddam Hussein's Grand Strategy During the Iran-Iraq War

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kurtis Jensen ◽  
Matthew Klunder
Keyword(s):  
Iraq War ◽  
Grand Strategy

Preparing for War

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David G. Morgan-Owen
Keyword(s):  
Grand Strategy ◽  
Military Policy ◽  
Complementary Approach ◽  
Regular Army ◽  
Political Intervention ◽  
The Government

The period 1904–6 proved to be a fateful one for the CID. The government successfully divorced the Regular Army from its defensive duties and re-orientated it towards operations overseas—the necessary first step to producing a more coherent, complementary approach to imperial defence. Yet despite this change in military policy, the CID failed to become a forum in which the two services could debate and co-operate in the interests of producing a cohesive grand strategy. Political intervention thus merely changed the parameters within which quasi-independent naval and military strategies continued to compete, intersect, and diverge—to the detriment of overall British readiness for war.

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