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Strategy

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by Lawrence Freedman


  2. Gordon Wood, “History Lessons,” New York Review of Books, March 29, 1984, p. 8 (Review of Barbara Tuchman’s March of Folly).

  3. Speech to the National Defense Executive Reserve Conference in Washington, DC, November 14, 1957, in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957 (National Archives and Records Service, Government Printing Office), p. 818. He then observed “the very definition of ‘emergency’ is that it is unexpected, therefore it is not going to happen the way you are planning.”

  4. Hew Strachan, “The Lost Meaning of Strategy,” Survival 47, no. 3 (2005): 34.

  5. Timothy Crawford, “Preventing Enemy Coalitions: How Wedge Strategies Shape Power Politics,” International Security 35, no. 4 (Spring 2011): 189.

  6. Jon T. Sumida, “The Clausewitz Problem,” Army History (Fall 2009), 17–21.

  7. Isaiah Berlin, “On Political Judgment,” New York Review of Books (October 3, 1996).

  8. Bruce Kuklick, Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006), 16.

  9. Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition, 2nd revised edition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), 200. First published 1958.

  10. Steven Lukes, Power: A Radical View (London: Macmillan, 1974).

  11. Charles Tilly, “The Trouble with Stories,” in Stories, Identities, and Social Change (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), 25–42.

  12. Naomi Lamoreaux, “Reframing the Past: Thoughts About Business Leadership and Decision Making Under Certainty,” Enterprise and Society 2 (December 2001): 632–659.

  13. Daniel M. G. Raff, “How to Do Things with Time,” Enterprise and Society 14, no. 3 (forthcoming, September 2013).

  14. Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow, 199, 200–201 206, 259 (see chap. 38, n. 44).

  15. Nassim Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (New York: Random House, 2007), 8.

  16. Joseph Davis, ed., Stories of Change: Narrative and Social Movements (New York: State University of New York Press, 2002).

  17. Francesca Polletta, It Was Like a Fever, see Chapter 27, n. 1, 166.

  18. Joseph Davis, ed., Stories of Change: Narrative and Social Movements (New York: State University of New York Press, 2002).

  19. Dennis Gioia and Peter P. Poole, “Scripts in Organizational Behavior,” Academy of Management Review 9, no. 3 (1984): 449–459; Ian Donald and David Canter, “Intentionality and Fatality During the King’s Cross Underground Fire,” European Journal of Social Psychology 22 (1992): 203–218.

  20. R. P. Abelson, “Psychological Status of the Script Concept,” American Psychologist 36 (1981): 715–729.

  21. Avner Offer, “Going to War in 1914: A Matter of Honor?” Politics and Society 23, no. 2 (1995): 213–241. Richard Herrmann and Michael Fischerkeller also introduce the idea of “strategic scripts” in their “Beyond the Enemy Image and Spiral Model: Cognitive-Strategic Research After the Cold War,” International Organization 49, no. 3 (Summer 1995): 415–450. Their use is, however, different with scripts considered as “hypothetical structures that offer a means to organize the totality of foreign policy behavior.” Another approach is that offered by James C. Scott, Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992). Scott describes how subordinate groups critique the “public transcript” promoted by the dominant group by surreptitiously developing a critique in the form of “hidden transcripts.” He thus takes familiar arguments about paradigms, formulas, myths, and false consciousness and challenges them by suggesting that subordinate groups are not so easily duped.

  22. Jerome Bruner, “The Narrative Construction of Reality,” Critical Inquiry, 1991, 4–5, 34.

  23. Christopher Fenton and Ann Langley, “Strategy as Practice and the Narrative Turn,” Organization Studies 32, no. 9 (2011): 1171–1196; G. Shaw, R. Brown, and P. Bromiley, “Strategic Stories: How 3M Is Rewriting Business Planning,” Harvard Business Review (May–June 1998), 41–50.

  24. Valérie-Inès de la Ville and Elèonore Mounand, “A Narrative Approach to Strategy as Practice: Strategy-making from Texts and Narratives,” in Damon Golskorkhi, et al. eds., Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice (see chap. 35, n. 29), 13.

  25. David Barry and Michael Elmes, “Strategy Retold: Toward a Narrative View of Strategic Discourse,” The Academy of Management Review 22, no. 2 (April 1997): 437, 430, 432–433.

  26. Robert McKee, Story, Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting (London: Methuen, 1997).

  27. Aristotle, Poetics, http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/poetics.html.

  28. Laton McCartney, The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country (New York: Random House, 2008).

  29. Although the first senator to come out for Roosevelt and the New Deal, by 1939 he was known as a vigorous isolationist and for accusations that Jews in Hollywood were using the influence of the movies to stir up prowar fervor. He denied Japan’s hostile intent in the weeks before Pearl Harbor. This background led him to have a later literary incarnation, as Charles Lindbergh’s vice president in Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America (New York: Random House, 2004).

  30. Michael Kazin, American Dreamers (see chap. 25, n. 51), 187; Charles Lindblom and John A. Hall, “Frank Capra Meets John Doe: Anti-politics in American National Identity,” in Mette Hjort and Scott Mackenzie, eds., Cinema and Nation (New York: Routledge, 2000). See also Joseph McBride, Frank Capra (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2011).

  31. This self-regulating body for upholding proper moral standards in film was largely about sexual conduct, but Breen also imposed political censorship, for example preventing anti-Nazi films being made, at least until 1938.

  32. Richard Maltby, Hollywood Cinema (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003), 278–279.

  33. Eric Smoodin, “‘Compulsory’ Viewing for Every Citizen: Mr. Smith and the Rhetoric of Reception,” Cinema Journal 35, no. 2 (Winter 1996): 3–23.

  34. Frances Fitzgerald, Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), 27–37.

  35. The original script can be found at http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/MrSmithGoesToWashington.txt.

  36. Michael P. Rogin and Kathleen Moran, “Mr. Capra Goes to Washington,” Representations, no. 84 (Autumn 2003): 213–248.

  37. Christopher Booker, The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories (New York: Continuum, 2004).

  INDEX

  Abelson, Robert, 598–599, 619

  Abernathy, Ralph, 363

  Abernathy, William, 528

  Adams, Scott, 552–553

  Addams, Jane

  compared to Follet, 466–467

  on conflict, 313–314

  Du Bois and, 351

  Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) and, 354

  First World War and, 316

  Hull House and, 310–313, 315

  Progressivism and, 313

  Pullman strike and, 313–314

  Tolstoy and, 310–311

  on urban life, 311, 313

  Aeneid, The (Virgil), 22, 24–25, 42

  Afghanistan, 222, 235

  Agincourt, Battle of, 48–49

  Agnew, Spiro, 441

  Ailes, Roger, 439, 450

  air power, theories of, 125–128, 131, 138, 158, 208

  al-Qaeda, 222–225, 234–235

  Albany (Georgia, US), 362–363

  Alexander I (Tsar of Russia), 78–80, 101, 143

  Alexander II (Tsar of Russia), 266, 277

  Alexander the Great, 505–506

  Algeria, 188–189

  Ali, Mohammed, 393

  Alinsky, Saul

  biography of, 378

  Catholic Church and, 380

  Chávez and, 387

  community organizing and, 379–385, 387–389

  criminology and, 379, 680n32

  Democratic presidential candidates
and, 455

  Industrial Areas Foundation and, 381

  King Jr. and, 388–389

  labor unions and, 380–381

  Lewis and, 381

  liberals and, 381–382, 384

  New Left and, 388, 408–409

  protest tactics and, 383–384

  radicals and, 381–384

  rules for radicals and, 382–383, 408

  Allenby, Edmund, 182

  America Can be Saved (Falwell), 444

  American Civil War, 109–112, 262

  American Federation of Labor, 381, 386

  American War of Independence, 178, 232

  anarchism

  Bakunin and, 251, 269–273, 276, 287–288, 392

  Conrad’s depiction of, 278

  Luxemburg and, 288

  political strikes and, 287–288

  reluctance to take power and, 280

  Spain and, 279

  syndicalism and, 279

  terrorism and, 276–279

  Tolstoy on, 310

  Andrews, Kenneth, 499–500, 521

  Ansoff, Igor, 498, 500–504, 519, 521, 539

  ants, 6

  Arab rebellion (1916), 181–182

  Arab Spring (2011), 230–231, 412

  Arab-Israeli War (1973), 199

  Archidamus, 33

  Arendt, Hannah, 392, 403, 614

  Aristotle, 623

  Arminius, Jacobus, 55–56

  armored warfare, theories of, 129–132

  Arms and Influence (Schelling), 166–167

  Armstrong, Helen, 558

  Aron, Raymond, xv

  Arquilla, John, 229–230, 431

  Arrow, Kenneth, 577

  Art of Manipulation, The (Riker), 588

  Art of War (Jomini), 84–85

  Art of War, The (Machiavelli), 51

  Art of War, The (Sun Tzu), 44–45, 509–510. See also Sun Tzu, strategic theories of

  Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers (ALAM), 479

  asymmetric wars, 220–225, 227

  Atē, 29

  Athens, 30–38, 46–47, 72

  Athos, Tony, 545

  Atlanta Compromise, 350

  atomic weapons. See nuclear weapons

  Attila the Hun, 506

  attrition warfare

  Boyd on, 199

  compared to maneuver warfare, 201, 206, 209, 242

  Delbrück on, 108–109, 180, 204, 289, 332

  Liddell Hart and, 138

  Luttwack on, 203

  negotiations and, 243

  Atwater, Lee

  on Baby Boomers, 447–448

  Machiavellian approach of, 445

  media strategies of, 446–448

  Southern strategies of, 447, 452

  Sun Tzu and, 445–446

  Willie Horton political ads and, 448

  Augustine of Hippo, 55

  Austerlitz, Battle of, 78, 100

  Austria, 78–80, 93, 105, 254–255

  Axelrod, David, 453

  Axelrod, Robert, 584–586

  Ayers, Bill, 455

  Bach, Lee, 517

  Bachrach, Peter, 373

  Baker, Ella, 361

  Bakunin, Mikhail

  anarchism and, 251, 269–273, 276, 287–288, 392

  biography of, 268–269

  First International and, 270–271

  general strikes and, 287–288

  Herzen and, 268–269

  Marx and, 268, 270–272, 276, 474

  Nechayev and, 276

  on the Paris Commune, 271–272

  on philosophy of history, 273–274

  propaganda of the deed and, 275–276

  on revolutionaries, 273–276

  Baldwin, Stanley, 126

  Baratz, Morton, 373

  Barnard, Chester, 471–473, 543, 563, 566

  Barnouw, Jeffrey, 28

  Barry, David, 622–623

  Barthes, Roland, 428

  Bassford, Christopher, 86

  Batista, Fulgencio, 399

  Battle of Britain (1940), 140

  Battle of France (1940), 199, 210, 617

  Battle of the Atlantic, 140

  Baxter, Leone, 437–438

  Beaufre, André, 193–194

  Bebel, August, 284

  Becker, Gary, 576

  Beinhocker, Eric, 540

  Belgium, 113–114, 123, 139

  Bell, Daniel, 405

  Bell, The (Herzen), 266

  Benn, William Wedgewood, 348–349

  Bergson, Henri, 328

  Berle, Adolf, 489–490, 492, 526

  Berlin (Germany), 172–174

  Berlin, Isaiah, 98, 101, 265, 307, 613–614

  Bernard, Jessie, 153

  Bernays, Edward, 340–343, 414, 432

  Bernstein, Eduard, 284–285

  Berra, Yogi, 575

  Bethlehem Steel, 463

  Betts, Richard, 139–140

  Bible, The

  Aaron in, 13–15

  Adam and Eve in, 11–12, 56–57

  Book of Revelation in, 57

  David and Goliath in, 10, 19–21, 617

  Exodus story in, 10, 12–17, 21, 57

  Garden of Eden account in, 11–12

  Gibeonites in, 18

  Gideon in, 18–19

  God’s role in human conflicts in, 10–21, 57

  Israelites in, 12–20

  Jacob in, 11, 13

  Job in, 56

  Joshua in, 17–18

  Moses in, 13–17, 21

  Pharaoh in, 13–17, 21

  Philistines in, 19–21

  Rahab in, 17

  Samuel in, 20

  Satan in, 56–57

  Saul in, 19–20

  Ten Plagues account in, 13–17

  biē (strength), 23, 25, 42

  bipolar strategy, 204

  Birmingham (Alabama, US), 362–364

  Bismarck, Otto von, 103, 106

  Black Panthers, 394–395, 403–405

  Black Power movement, 393–394

  Blake, William, 57

  Blanqui, Louis-Auguste, 251, 263, 271

  blitzkrieg strategy, 139, 199–200, 210, 225, 617

  Blumenthal, Sidney, 449

  Bolsheviks, 180, 289, 292, 294, 296, 298, 466. See also Lenin, Vladimir Ilych

  Bonaparte, Louis-Napoleon, 258, 271

  Bonaparte, Napoleon

  French Revolution and, 249

  influences on, 45, 76

  Jomini on, 83–84

  legacy of, 505–506

  military strategies of, 70, 75–78, 93, 95, 109–111, 237, 613

  personality cult of, 97

  political objectives of, 93

  Russia campaign of, 78–83, 90, 209

  Spain campaign of, 90

  Tolstoy’s depiction of, 99–100, 617

  Bond, Brian, 95, 138

  Book of Five Rings, The (Musashi), 510

  Borodino, Battle of, 79–83, 93, 99

  Boston Consulting Group (BCG), 498, 507, 511, 519–520, 544, 707n41

  bounded rationality, 544, 592

  Boyd, John

  attrition warfare and, 199

  on Battle of France (1940), 199, 617

  on maneuver warfare, 199, 216

  OODA loop (observation, orientation, decision, action) and, 196–199, 217, 451, 511–512

  strategic theories of, 196–203, 212–213, 216, 225–226, 548

  Brams, Steven, 11

  Brandeis, Louis, 464–465

  Brandenburger, Adam, 523, 710n6

  Breen, Joseph, 625

  Brodie, Bernard, 146–147, 150, 156, 160–161, 168, 192, 194

  Bronowski, Jacob, 151

  Brown v. Board of Education, 357

  Brown, H. Rap, 394

  Brown, James, 543

  Brown, Pat, 442

  Bruner, Jerome, 621

  Buchman, Sidney, 625

  Bull, Hedley, 149–150, 167

  Bundy, McGeorge, 173, 176–177

  Bungay, Stephen, 562, 570
r />   Burdick, Eugene, 187

  bureaucracy, Weber on, 302–303, 322, 368, 370, 459, 551, 609

  Bureaucratization of the World (Rizzi), 334

  Burgess, Edwin, 378–380

  Burnham, James, 334–335, 491–492, 674n26

  Bush, George H.W., 446, 448–449, 451–452

  Bush, George W., 222, 224, 433

  business management

  agency theory and, 525–528

  competition and, 518–524, 536–539, 608

  criticism of quantitative emphasis in, 528–530

  definitions of, 460–461

  deliberate versus emergent strategies, 554–555

  deregulation’s impact on, 548–549

  as domination, 557–560

  education regarding, 461–462, 516–518

  efficient market theory and, 526–527

  emphasis on narrative in, 563–567

  finance strategies and, 530

  Follet on, 466–468

  Ford Foundation and, 516–517

  Galbraith on, 492

  “gurus” and, 561

  halo effect and, 569–570

  human relations school of, 468–473, 483, 543

  information and communications technology and, 543

  key performance indicators (KPIs) and, 562

  learning organizations and, 556–557

  military strategy and, 505–512, 537–538, 540

  planning and, 493, 500, 502–505, 518, 550, 559, 570

  postmodernism and, 557–558

  proliferation of strategies in, 561–563

  psychological aspects of, 470, 472

  “scientific management” and, 464–465

  stockholders and, 492, 530

  Taylorism and, 462–466, 468

  theories of power and, 557–559

  business process reengineering (BPR), 532–536, 561

  Byrne, Richard, 5

  Caddell, Pat, 449

  Calvin, William, 429

  Calvinism, 55–56

  Calwell, C. E., 181

  Campaigns Inc., 437–438

  Camus, Albert, 371, 374, 397

 

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