Thucydides on Strategy: Grand Strategies in the Peloponnesian War and Their Relevance Today

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Masterfully crafted and surprisingly up to date, “History of the Peloponnesian War” has long been celebrated as an insightful, eloquent, and exhaustively detailed work of classical Greek history. The text could also be remarkable for its deep political and military dimensions, and scholars have begun to position the work alongside Sun Tzu’s The Art of War and Clausewitz’s On War as one of the vital great treatises on strategy. The easiest companion to Thucydides’ impressive History, this volume details the precise strategic concepts at work throughout the History of the Peloponnesian War and demonstrates, through case studies of up to date conflicts in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq, the continuing relevance of Thucydidean thought to an analysis and planning of strategic operations. Some have even credited Thucydides with founding the discipline of international relations. Written by two scholars with extensive experience on this and related fields, Thucydides on Strategy situates the classical historian solidly within the up to date world of war.

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