Strategy: A History
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Strategy: A History
| Author | Lawrence Freedman |
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| Published | 2013 |
| Pages | 760 |
| Recommended | 3 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Lawrence Freedman traces the idea of strategy from the Bible and Greece through Clausewitz and nuclear deterrence into management consulting and political campaigning, and finds the same recurring problem: plans do not survive other people. The reference work on the idea itself. |
Where I heard about it
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Spotted at Barnes & Noble, American Fork — September 2024 (Books photo album)
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Spotted at Barnes & Noble at South Towne, Sandy — May 2025 (Books photo album)
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@typesfast’s thread — named in the replies to his question “What’s the best history book you’ve read?”, June 2025. Full set of replies: What’s the best history book… (tweet).
Connections
- Power — strategy as the study of applying it against an opponent who adapts.
- Geopolitics — the military and diplomatic half of the history.
- Company Building — the business-strategy tradition, which Freedman treats as one branch of the same story.
- History
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this recommendation came from.
What links here
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