Strategy: A History

Categories: History, Politics & Social Sciences

Sir Lawrence Freedman, a leading authority on war and international politics, traces the history of strategic thinking from primate groups and the Iliad through Sun Tzu, Machiavelli, Clausewitz and Marx to corporate strategists such as Peter Drucker and modern game theory. He argues that because the environment is unpredictable, strategy must stay fluid and flexible. It was selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013.