The End of Grand Strategy: US Maritime Operations in the Twenty-First Century (Book review)
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Layton, Peter
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2018
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Grand strategy prescriptions figure strongly in American strategic debates. This book seeks to end those debates by proclaiming that the concept of grand strategy is obsolete. However, this book is more than that. It is actually two books in one, with more than half the pages devoted to examining in some detail a range of current US Navy operations. It is also an American-centric book. Indeed, it is made clear early on that only the US, as a ‘truly great power’ (p. 1), can have a grand strategy, or at least debate the possibility of having one.Grand strategy prescriptions figure strongly in American strategic debates. This book seeks to end those debates by proclaiming that the concept of grand strategy is obsolete. However, this book is more than that. It is actually two books in one, with more than half the pages devoted to examining in some detail a range of current US Navy operations. It is also an American-centric book. Indeed, it is made clear early on that only the US, as a ‘truly great power’ (p. 1), can have a grand strategy, or at least debate the possibility of having one.
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Journal Title
The RUSI Journal
Volume
163
Issue
3
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This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in The RUSI Journal, Volume 163, 2018 - Issue 3, Pages 115-116 , 08 Aug 2018, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: https://doi.org/10.1080/03071847.2018.1497456
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Political science
Social Sciences
Political Science
Government & Law