The Strategist: How to Think About War and Politics

An authoritative introduction to strategy—its enduring essentials, its inherent challenges, and the ways it will change in the twenty-first century

We live in a world in which America’s previous dominance has disappeared, violent states seek to remake the global order, and war itself has taken new forms. The Strategist is the definitive guide to the use of military means to achieve political ends. In this incisive book, Eliot Cohen addresses the deceptively straightforward questions at the h...