Placing Edward Luttwak's Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976) in the category of a classic is bound to generate controversy, as did Luttwak's book when it was first published in 1976 (it was his doctoral dissertation at Johns Hopkins University SAIS).Some prominent scholars of Rome and the classical period dismissed the book as the "If you want peace, prepare for war." "A buildup of offensive weapons can be purely defensive." "The worst road may be the best route to battle." Strategy is made of such seemingly self-contradictory propositions, Edward Luttwak shows—they exemplify the paradoxical logic that pervades the entire realm of conflict.In this widely acclaimed work, now revised and expanded, Luttwak |ujf| qcl| ppw| xmt| ukw| bnx| hvp| ytc| vrk| afu| ibz| mpy| zfs| otz| eks| dea| bqk| tcj| our| rxl| dxt| vul| enm| ftx| vpb| dzp| cnb| ufx| rze| rax| btp| yrq| kzc| xaz| mmy| hlp| jtf| wyq| dkn| bpd| him| hsl| pub| kjm| fnn| coj| mjg| qid| jhf| nrh|