Thucydides on strategy
Subtitle: grand strategies in the Pelopennesian War and their relevance today
By: Athanassios G. Platias & Constantinos Koliopoulos.
Contributors: Koliopoulos, Kōnstantinos, 1971-
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780231701334
Subjects: Thucydides -- Criticism and interpretation; Thucydides; Thucydides -- Political and social views; Strategy -- Historiography; Greece -- History -- Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C. -- Historiography
Description: "This volume details the strategic concepts at work within the History of the Peloponnesian War and demonstrates how, through case studies of recent conflicts in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq, Thucydidean thought remains vital to the analysis to strategic operations"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Chronology; title: Grand strategy : a framework for analysis; title: Athens and Sparta : power structures, early conflict, and the causes of war; title: Periclean grand strategy; title: Spartan grand strategy; title: Thucydides and strategy in perspective; title: Annex: Strategic concepts in Thucydides.