Retreat from Strategy

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Britain’s Dangerous Confusion of Interests with Values

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

AvDavid Richards,Julian Lindley-French

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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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Utgivningsdatum2026-10-01
Mått138 x 216 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor376
FörlagC Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
ISBN9781805266990

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David Richards (Field Marshal The Lord David Richards of Herstmonceux) commanded British troops in East Timor and Sierra Leone and the NATO campaign in Afghanistan 2006/7, before serving as Chief of the Defence Staff and a National Security Council member. Julian Lindley-French is Chairman of The Alphen Group; Eisenhower Professor of Defence Strategy at the Netherlands Defence Academy; and the author of Future War and the Defence of Europe.

About the Authors Acknowledgements Foreword by James Joye Townsend Jr, former US Deputy Assistant Secretary for Defence Preface: The Sleepwalkers Scenario: Britain Defeated Introduction PART ONE: THE RETREAT FROM STRATEGY 1. Britain, Strategy and History 2. A Force for Good? 3. Smoke and Errors 4. Ends, Ways, and Has-Beens? PART TWO: THE RETURN TO STRATEGY 5. A Return to Strategy 6. The Utility of (British) Force 7. Belgium with Nukes? 8. Tommy Scenario: Britain Defended Britain’s Retreat from Strategy: Elite Questionnaire Notes Bibliography Index

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