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Churchill: The Making Of A Grand Strategist

Author : Colonel David Jablonsky
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786250527
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book Churchill: The Making Of A Grand Strategist written by Colonel David Jablonsky and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategy is the calculated relationship of means to ends. At the highest military level, that relationship guides the use of the joint and combined military instrument of power to achieve national military strategic objectives. At the national or grand strategic level, the relationship becomes more complex, dealing with multiple, interrelated objectives that can only be achieved by the coordinated use of all the instruments of national power, to include that of the military. In a rapidly changing, increasingly more complicated and interdependent world, the U.S. military professional needs to understand not only the dynamics of military strategy, but of grand strategy as well. This book examines the evolution of Winston Churchill’s understanding of both strategic dynamics. In the author’s view, that understanding came about not so much from any detailed, consistent study of great strategists or immutable strategic principles, but rather from on-the-job strategic training throughout an incredibly rich and varied life. In the military sphere, there were at first only his tactical experiences in the small wars in the closing years of the Victorian era. In the First World War, however, Churchill came to appreciate the operational and military strategic levels of war as well. Moreover, it was that conflict which drew him increasingly to the realm of grand strategy in which all the elements of national power were combined to achieve victory in the first total war of this century.

Churchill, the Making of a Grand Strategist

Author : David Jablonsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Churchill, the Making of a Grand Strategist written by David Jablonsky and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Building Blocks; The Vertical Dimension; The Early Years; On-The-Job Training; The Continuum of War; The Break in the Continuum; The Maneuver Solution; The Defensive Solution; Force Multipliers; Intelligence; Deception; Science and Technology; The Building Blocks; The Horizontal Dimension; The Political Connection; The Psychological and Economic Connections; The Horizontal-Vertical Interface; Grand Strategy and the Search for Decisiveness; Conflict Termination. 'Churchill is the most bloodthirsty of amateur strategists that history has ever known, 'Adolf Hitler stated in a 1941 speech. 'He is as bad a politician as a soldier and as bad a soldier as a politician.' Hitler was wrong on all counts. Winston Churchill was a competent, experienced and enthusiastic soldier who served as an officer in four wars, beginning as a subaltern on India's northwest frontier and ending as a battalion commander on the Western Front in World War I and while he could not match Hitler's horrific life as a runner in the trenches for most of the war, the future British leader had experienced intense, close quarter combat first hand in many campaigns, many lands before his 25th birthday. Keywords: Military publications; Periodicals; Reports. (eg).

Churchill

Author : Tuvia Ben-Moshe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781685858643
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book Churchill written by Tuvia Ben-Moshe and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges long-standing assumptions about Winston Churchill's role in war and in peace as a strategist and a historian.

Churchill, Kitchener and Lloyd George

Author : Stephen Cliffe
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Churchill, Kitchener and Lloyd George written by Stephen Cliffe and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2017-05-17 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would it have been possible for the First World War to be avoided? Steve Cliffe, author of Churchill, Kitchener and Lloyd George: First World Warlords, believes so as did David Lloyd George, Britain’s wartime prime minister. In a bloody act of annihilation that killed over half a million young British men, George was one of three powerful personalities who indelibly stamped their authority and influence on the conduct and final outcome of ‘the war to end all wars’. Of the other two, Winston Churchill became better known for his role in the Second World War, and Lord Kitchener was arguably the greatest instigator of Britain’s war effort. With his image stamped on the iconic ‘Your country needs you’ enlistment poster during the war, Kitchener exerted tremendous influence on both politicians and a lost generation of British youth. Those who start wars seldom finish them, and Kitchener, tragically, was no exception to this grim rule. Illustrations: 40 black-and-white photographs

Dinner with Churchill

Author : Cita Stelzer
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453271619
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Dinner with Churchill written by Cita Stelzer and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging biography invites readers to dinner with Winston Churchill and his political guests in the years surrounding WWII. A friend once said of Winston Churchill: “He is a man of simple tastes; he is quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.” But for Churchill, dinners were about more than good food, excellent champagnes, and Havana cigars. “Everything” included the opportunity to use the table both as a stage on which to display his brilliant conversational talents and as an intimate setting in which to glean gossip and diplomatic insights and to argue for the many policies he espoused over his long political career. In this riveting, informative, and entertaining account, Cita Stelzer draws on previously untapped material, diaries of guests, and a wide variety of other sources to tell of some of the key dinners at which Churchill presided before, during, and after World War II. An “acutely revealing” and eloquent look at one of Great Britain’s most impactful prime ministers, Dinner with Churchill offers delicious new insights into the food, cocktails, and conversations that shaped history (The Times Literary Supplement).

Churchill and the Norway Campaign, 1940

Author : Graham Rhys-Jones
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1844689298
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book Churchill and the Norway Campaign, 1940 written by Graham Rhys-Jones and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 9 April 1940, the German Armed Forces seized Norway and Denmark in an operation remarkable for its precision and boldness. The Chamberlain War Cabinet was caught on the hop and responded with ineptitude.While this book examines the making of grand strategy it is first and foremost the story of this ill-fated campaign. It describes the attempts of naval and military commanders to respond to daily shifts in government policy and to grasp the methods of a new kind of enemy one which seemed willing to take extraordinary risks and which had regained a level of tactical mobility not seen since Napoleonic times. Norway has been eclipsed by the larger disasters which followed shortly after notably the evacuation from Dunkirk and the fall of France. Although there is a substantial body of printed material touching on the subject, few accounts provide a clear view of the campaign as a whole and fewer still are easy to read. While the book concentrates on the higher levels of decision-making (War Cabinets, Chiefs of Staff, and Theater Commanders), it gives equal emphasis to land, sea and air operations and the men who under took them and provides, as far as possible, an even balance between British and German perspectives.

The Strategists

Author : Phillips Payson O'Brien
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1524746487
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book The Strategists written by Phillips Payson O'Brien and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Churchill. Hitler. Stalin. Mussolini. Roosevelt. Five of the most impactful leaders of WW2, each with their own individualistic and idiosyncratic approach to warfare. But if we want to understand their military strategy, we must first understand the strategist. In The Strategists, Professor Phillips Payson O'Brien shows how the views these five leaders forged in WW1 are crucial to understanding how they fought WW2. For example, Churchill's experiences of facing the German Army in France in 1916 made him unwilling to send masses of British soldiers back there in the 1940s, while Hitler's mistakes on the Eastern Front were influenced by his reluctance to accept that conditions had changed since his own time fighting. The implications of the power of leaders remain with us to this day: to truly understand what is happening in Ukraine, for example, requires us to know what has influenced the leaders involved. This is a history in which leaders—and their choices—matter. For better or worse.

Churchill and Hitler

Author : David Jablonsky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135202656
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Churchill and Hitler written by David Jablonsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays examines the development of Churchill and Hitler as strategic leaders and analyses in particular the impact of their formative years on their leadership styles, operational codes', views on civilmilitary relations, and approaches to the conduct of war at strategic, operational and tactical levels. Ultimately, victory depended on the calculated use of all the means of national power military, political, psychological and economic to achieve the national end. These essays demonstrate it was Churchill who best understood that calculation.

Winston Churchill

Author : Richard Toye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781474263887
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (638 download)

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Download or read book Winston Churchill written by Richard Toye and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of short, accessible chapters on the key aspects of Winston Churchill's military and political career and his impact on 20th-century history"--

Churchill and Hitler

Author : David Jablonsky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135202583
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Churchill and Hitler written by David Jablonsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays examines the development of Churchill and Hitler as strategic leaders and analyses in particular the impact of their formative years on their leadership styles, operational codes', views on civilmilitary relations, and approaches to the conduct of war at strategic, operational and tactical levels. Ultimately, victory depended on the calculated use of all the means of national power military, political, psychological and economic to achieve the national end. These essays demonstrate it was Churchill who best understood that calculation.

Strategy

Author : Sir Lawrence Freedman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199349908
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Strategy written by Sir Lawrence Freedman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013 In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking, in a consistently engaging and insightful account of how strategy came to pervade every aspect of our lives. The range of Freedman's narrative is extraordinary, moving from the surprisingly advanced strategy practiced in primate groups, to the opposing strategies of Achilles and Odysseus in The Iliad, the strategic advice of Sun Tzu and Machiavelli, the great military innovations of Baron Henri de Jomini and Carl von Clausewitz, the grounding of revolutionary strategy in class struggles by Marx, the insights into corporate strategy found in Peter Drucker and Alfred Sloan, and the contributions of the leading social scientists working on strategy today. The core issue at the heart of strategy, the author notes, is whether it is possible to manipulate and shape our environment rather than simply become the victim of forces beyond one's control. Time and again, Freedman demonstrates that the inherent unpredictability of this environment-subject to chance events, the efforts of opponents, the missteps of friends-provides strategy with its challenge and its drama. Armies or corporations or nations rarely move from one predictable state of affairs to another, but instead feel their way through a series of states, each one not quite what was anticipated, requiring a reappraisal of the original strategy, including its ultimate objective. Thus the picture of strategy that emerges in this book is one that is fluid and flexible, governed by the starting point, not the end point. A brilliant overview of the most prominent strategic theories in history, from David's use of deception against Goliath, to the modern use of game theory in economics, this masterful volume sums up a lifetime of reflection on strategy.

On Grand Strategy

Author : John Lewis Gaddis
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525557296
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book On Grand Strategy written by John Lewis Gaddis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The best education in grand strategy available in a single volume . . . a book that should be read by every American leader or would-be leader.”—The Wall Street Journal A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary program the author has co-taught at Yale for decades John Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian of the Cold War, has for almost two decades co-taught grand strategy at Yale University with his colleagues Charles Hill and Paul Kennedy. Now, in On Grand Strategy, Gaddis reflects on what he has learned. In chapters extending from the ancient world through World War II, Gaddis assesses grand strategic theory and practice in Herodotus, Thucydides, Sun Tzu, Octavian/Augustus, St. Augustine, Machiavelli, Elizabeth I, Philip II, the American Founding Fathers, Clausewitz, Tolstoy, Lincoln, Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Isaiah Berlin. On Grand Strategy applies the sharp insights and wit readers have come to expect from Gaddis to times, places, and people he’s never written about before. For anyone interested in the art of leadership, On Grand Strategy is, in every way, a master class.

The Making of Strategy

Author : Williamson Murray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521566278
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (662 download)

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Download or read book The Making of Strategy written by Williamson Murray and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-05-31 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on the processes by which rulers and states have framed strategy from the fifth century BC to the present.

American Grand Strategy in the Mediterranean during World War II

Author : Andrew Buchanan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107661358
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book American Grand Strategy in the Mediterranean during World War II written by Andrew Buchanan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a thorough reinterpretation of US engagement with the Mediterranean during World War II. Andrew Buchanan argues that the United States was far from being a reluctant participant in a 'peripheral' theater, and that Washington had a major grand-strategic interest in the region. By the end of the war the Mediterranean was essentially an American lake, and the United States had substantial political and economic interests extending from North Africa, via Italy and the Balkans, to the Middle East. This book examines the military, diplomatic, and economic processes by which this hegemonic position was assembled and consolidated. It discusses the changing character of the Anglo-American alliance, the establishment of post-war spheres of influence, the nature of presidential leadership, and the common interest of all the leaders of the 'Grand Alliance' in blocking the development of potentially revolutionary movements emerging from the chaos of war, occupation, and economic breakdown.

Churchill's Phoney War

Author : Graham Clews
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1682472809
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Churchill's Phoney War written by Graham Clews and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the dearth of scholarship on the Phoney War, this book examines the early months of World War II when Winston Churchill’s ability to lead Britain in the fight against the Nazis was being tested. Graham T. Clews explores how Churchill, as First Lord of the Admiralty, proposed to fight this new world war, with particular attention given to his attempts to impel the Royal Navy, the British War Cabinet, and the French, toward a more aggressive prosecution of the conflict. This is no mere retelling of events but a deep analysis of the decision-making process and Churchill’s unique involvement in it. This book shares extensive new insights into well-trodden territory and original analysis of the unexplored, with each chapter offering material which challenges conventional wisdom. Clews reassesses several important issues of the Phoney War period including: Churchill’s involvement in the anti-U-boat campaign; his responsibility for the failures of the Norwegian Campaign; his attitude to Britain’s aerial bombing campaign and the notion of his unfettered “bulldog” spirit; his relationship with Neville Chamberlain; and his succession to the premiership. A man of considerable strengths and many shortcomings, the Churchill that emerges in Clews’ portrayal is dynamic and complicated. Churchill’s Phoney War adds a well-balanced and much-needed history of the Phoney War while scrupulously examining Churchill’s successes and failures.

The Royal Navy, Seapower and Strategy between the Wars

Author : C. Bell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230599230
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Royal Navy, Seapower and Strategy between the Wars written by C. Bell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-08-02 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revisionist study shows how the Royal Navy's ideas about the meaning and application of seapower shaped its policies during the years between the wars. It examines the navy's ongoing struggle with the Treasury for funds, the real meaning of the 'one power standard', naval strategies for war with the United States, Japan, Germany and Italy, the influence of Mahan, the role of the navy in peacetime, and the use of propaganda to influence the British public.

Churchill and Sea Power

Author : Christopher M. Bell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199693579
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Churchill and Sea Power written by Christopher M. Bell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first major study of Winston Churchill's record as a naval strategist and his impact as the most prominent guardian of Britain's sea power in the modern era. The book debunks many popular and well-entrenched myths surrounding controversial episodes in both World Wars, including the Dardanelles disaster, the Norwegian Campaign, the Battle of the Atlantic, and the devastating loss of the Prince of Wales and Repulse in 1941. It shows that many common criticisms of Churchill have been exaggerated, but also that some of his mistakes have been largely overlooked. The book also examines Churchill's evolution as a maritime strategist over the course of his career, and documents his critical part in managing Britain's naval decline during the first half of the twentieth century. Churchill's genuine affection for the Royal Navy has often distracted attention from the fact that his views on sea power were pragmatic and unsentimental. For, as Christopher M. Bell shows, in a period dominated by declining resources, global threats, and rapid technological change, it was increasingly air rather than sea power that Churchill looked to as the foundation of Britain's security.