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Volume I of The Cambridge History of Strategy offers a history of the practice of strategy from the beginning of recorded history, to the late eighteenth century, from all parts of the world. Drawing on material evidence covering two-and-a-half millennia, an international team of leading scholars in each subject examines how strategy was formulated and applied and with what tools, from ancient Greece and China to the Ottoman and Mughal Empires and the American Revolutionary War. They explore key themes from decision-makers and strategy-making processes, causes of wars and war aims, tools of strategy in war and peace, to configurations of armed forces and distinctive and shared ways of war across civilisations and periods. A comparative conclusion examines how the linking of political goals with military means took place in different parts of the world over the course of history, asking whether strategic practice has universal features.

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Isabelle Duyvesteyn is Professor of International Studies/Global History at the Institute of History at Leiden University. Between 2012 and 2017 she held the Special Chair in Strategic Studies at the Political Science Institute of Leiden University. Between 2008 and 2012 she was a member of the national Advisory Council for International Affairs assigned to advise the Netherlands government on issues of peace and security and between 2012 and 2021, she was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Netherlands Defence Academy. Beatrice Heuser holds the Chair of International Relations at the University of Glasgow, seconded to the General Staff College of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg as section chief for Strategy. She has worked at NATO Headquarters as a Consultant. She has served on academic advisory boards of the Royal United Services Institute, the French Institute of International Affairs (IFRI), and the French government's strategic studies think tank IRSEM.

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