Abstract

Ukrainian crisis has made security closer to the world. In understanding security, it is essential to understand a grand strategy that is said to be its framework. Grand strategy is the highest level of strategy that influences a country’s destiny beyond winning and losing on the battlefield. It is an essential framework to understand international politics, from geopolitics to diplomacy, nuclear deterrence strategy.
This book picks up the following six thinkers of grand strategy. Many of their works have been translated.
① Halford Mackinder, English geographer regarded as “father of geopolitics”
② Michael Howard, English historian who led the war studies and strategic studies today
③ Bernard Brodie, American academic of international politics who established the concept of deterrence in each era
④ Henry Kissinger, American historian and practitioner of diplomacy with China and detente with the Soviet Union
⑤ Edward Luttwak, American international academic known for many writings
⑥ Martin van Creveld, Israeli historian who drastically challenged Clausewitz’s “On War”

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