Indeed, to go further, it is by no means unknown for professional soldiers to be less than fascinated by the political consequences of their military efforts.

It is a common, and somewhat understandable, error to assume that if one takes care of the fighting in an efficient manner, and the enemy is duly humbled, somehow the subsequent peace will all but take care of itself. distinction was in Fighting Talk: Forty Maxims on War, Peace, and Strategy (Westport.

Maxim 3 insists both that we never forget that war is about peace (see Maxim 2), and, more pointedly, that the making of peace is likely to be more difficult than the waging of war. Gray Wokingham September 2013 Contents List of Figures x. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Fighting Talk : Forty Maxims on War, Peace, and Strategy by Colin S. This collection of mini essays will forearm politicians, soldiers, and the attentive general public against many-probably most- fallacies that abound in contemporary debates about war, peace, and security. Rather, it ably serves as a primer for politicians, war fighters, pundits, and the interested public to better understand the very nature of war, peace, and strategy and the way those three are intertwined. It would be difficult to overstate the significance of this maxim. Colin Gray presents an inventive treatise on the nature of strategy, war, and peace, organized around forty maxims. Fighting Talk is not a prescriptive how-to guide for planning, fighting, and winning wars. over 25 books, including Fighting Talk: Forty Maxims on War, Peace. The first, War and Peace, has ten reminders that war remains the province of uncertainty. Gray was a strategist, author and professor of international. It is a blunt instrument, and there are many reasons why cunning plans often go awry, not the least among which is the fact of an enemy with an independent will. Fighting Talk is organized under five headings. Fighting Talk: Forty Maxims on War, Peace, and Strategy by Colin S.

“It should be needless to add that policy needs to be somewhat flexible and adaptive since war has a way of frustrating political intentions.

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