The Retreat from Strategy
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The Retreat from Strategy

Britain’s Dangerous Confusion of Interests with Values

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eBook - ePub

The Retreat from Strategy

Britain’s Dangerous Confusion of Interests with Values

About this book

Britain is sleepwalking to disaster, because London has abandoned all forms of proper strategy. That is the sobering message of this powerful analysis exposing the great failings of British security and defence policy.

Britain long ago abandoned the art and science of grand strategy, even though this is crucial for establishing the country's direction of travel. Without grand strategy, national strategy has been reduced to little more than a political game of how much threat Britain can afford, and who gets what from an ever-shrinking resource pot. However, it is Britain's defence policy where the contradictions and self-delusion of abandoned strategy are most apparent, and which explains why the balance between ends, ways and means--as sound strategy would demand--has become not just elusive, but nigh on impossible.

This essential, incisive book offers Britain a pathway back to strategic realism, by ending the profound confusion of interests with values that has done so much damage to Britain and its vital place in the world of the twenty-first century.


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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. About the Authors
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Foreword by James Joye Townsend Jr, former US Deputy Assistant Secretary for Defence
  10. Preface: The Sleepwalkers
  11. Scenario: Britain Defeated
  12. Introduction
  13. Part One The Retreat From Strategy
  14. Part Two The Return to Strategy
  15. Scenario: Britain Defended
  16. Britain’s Retreat from Strategy: Elite Questionnaire
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Back Cover