Decisive Battles Strategic Leaders

Strategic leadership is observed through campaigns of the great commanders from Pharaoh Thutmose at Meggido (1479 BC) to Manekshaw and the Bangladesh War of 1971. The battlefield tactics of Cyrus Alexander Hannibal Genghis Robert Bruce Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu Gustavus Adolphus Marlborough Abdali Napoleon Lee and Giap are examined. The cataclysmic fall of Constantinople Vijay Nagar Delhi (1857) and Singapore are described in gory detail. Sun Tzu Musashi Mao's guerilla tactics Clausewitz and the theories of Liddell Hart De Gaulle and Fuller leading to the strategic use of tanks in the German Blitzkrieg are analyzed. The author enters the mind of the strategist to understand how and why a particular battlefield decision impacts the fate of armies and nations. The basic principles of war business/war and business/games analogy are lucidly presented to provide interesting reading for practicing managers.