Strategy category: 1253 books
Transforming Pakistan
Ways Out of Instability
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book argues that any strategy for dealing with Pakistan requires an understanding of the country’s complex and turbulent history and of the weaknesses of its political and other institutions. It describes how, in the absence of an inherent national identity, successive military and civilian...
Art of War
The Definitive Interpretation of Sun Tzu's Classic Book of Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Sun Tzu's The Art of War is still one of the world's most influential treatises on strategic thought. Applicable everywhere from the boardroom to the bedroom, from the playing field to the battlefield, its wisdom has never been more highly regarded.
Now available in its complete form, including...
by A.M. Gray
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Warfighting is an authentic American philosophy of action that will thrill the millions of fans of SunTzu's The Art of War and Musashi's The Book of Five Rings. This modern classic of strategy and philosophy is the quintessential guide to prevailing in competitive situations, be it war, work, play,...
The Art of War Visualized
The Sun Tzu Classic in Charts and Graphs
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
It’s the perfect meeting of minds. One, a general whose epigrammatic lessons on strategy offer timeless insight and wisdom. And the other, a visual thinker whose succinct diagrams and charts give readers a fresh way of looking at life’s challenges and opportunities. A Bronze Age/Information Age...
by Ralph D. Sawyer
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2005
Ralph D. Sawyer is the preeminent scholar and translator on Sun-tzu's masterful work. More than 200,000 copies of his Sun-tzu Art of War and more than 55,000 copies of The Complete Art of War have been sold. The Art of War is the most famous study of strategy ever written and has had an extraordinary...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2013
From the foreword: As the United States and its coalition partners continue with transitions to host-nation civil authorities in both Iraq and Afghanistan, authors Isaac Kfir, Nicholas Armstrong, and Jacqueline Chura-Beaver examine an important case study of the United Nation's transition efforts...
Game Plan
The 25 Secret Strategies of the Martial Arts and How to Use Them to Build a Great Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Whatever the question, Game Plan has the answer. Have you ever been stuck in a situation and not been able to think of a way out? Or wanted something really badly but didn't know how to get it? Or kept trying to achieve something but never managed to get it, no matter how hard you tried? Perhaps you...
Beyond the Battleground
Classic Strategies from the Yijing and Baguazhang for Managing Crisis Situations
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Drawing on ideas from classical military strategy, the Yijing (Book of Changes), and Chinese martial arts theory, Tom Bisio presents a fascinating exploration of how insights from these sources can be deployed to manage crisis situations in all aspects of our daily lives. Suggesting approaches for...
The Science of War
Sun Tzu's “Art of War” re-translated and re-considered
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
For more than two thousand years, strategists in China have followed a single system of military teachings. In The Science of War, Christopher MacDonald tells how those principles and teachings first crystallized into the Sun Tzu treatise and how they guide China's military and political leaders to...
US Defense Politics
The Origins of Security Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
This book provides an accessible overview of US defense politics for upper-level students. This new edition has been fully updated and revised, with a new chapter on veterans and new material on topics such as cyberwarfare and lobbying.
Analyzing the ways in which the United States prepares...
by Frederick the Great
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
The king of Prussia from 1740 to 1786, Frederick the Great ranks among eighteenth-century Europe's most enlightened rulers. In addition to abolishing serfdom in his domains and promoting religious tolerance, he was an ardent patron of the arts and an accomplished musician. "Diplomacy without arms," he...
by General Waldemar Erfurth
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Written before the outbreak of World War II, this is a compelling book on military strategy, in particular the doctrines of surprise and the flank attack.
Almost breaking completely with traditional military thinking, despite citing ideas which tally with the doctrines of Clausewitz, Moltke...
Lessons in the Art of War
Martial Strategies for the Successful Fighter
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Become a Better Martial Artist by Applying Lessons from the World's Greatest Military Strategists from Sun Tzu to Von Clausewitz
Lessons in the Art of War investigates the theories and philosophies of the most prominent military thinkers in Asia and Europe and examines the combat roots of a...
by Sun Tzu
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The world's most influential treatise on strategy Mao Zedong used it to defeat Chiang Kai-shek. Colin Powell thinks every US soldier should be familiar with its principles. New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick built a football dynasty out of lessons learned within its pages. Even Gordon Gekko and...