On Grand Strategy

A training manual for our troubled times ... It makes sense of our world but is also capable of beautifully crafted pithy historical judgements. ... It is a book that cares about liberty choice and a moral compass that warns against hubris Roger Boyes The TimesJohn Lewis Gaddis the distinguished historian and acclaimed author of The Cold War has for almost two decades co-taught the grand strategy seminar at Yale University with his colleagues Charles Hill and Paul Kennedy. Now in On Grand Strategy Gaddis reflects with insight and wit on what he has learned.In chapters extending from the ancient world through World War II Gaddis assesses grand strategic theory and practice in Herodotus Thucydides Sun Tzu Octavian/Augustus Saint Augustine MachiavelliElizabeth I Philip II the American Founding Fathers Clausewitz TolstoyLincoln Wilson Franklin D. Roosevelt and Isaiah Berlin.For the past 16 years Gaddis has taught a course on grand strategy to students at Yale University. Reading his book you wish every university could offer it. Gaddis roves across the centuries offering advice on subjects from statecraft and warfare to leading a worthwhile life Phillip Delves Broughton Evening Standard