Strategy: History

Lawrence David Friedman (born 1948) is an emeritus professor of military studies at King's College London, one of the leading specialists and global authorities in the field of strategy with many years of scientific and practical experience.
His bestseller Strategy: A History, named a Financial Times Best Book of 2013, provides a panoramic overview of the role of strategy in all world civilizations, from antiquity to the present, and a brilliant analysis of it as a political, military and economic planning method. The range of the story is impressive: from the advanced behavior of primates, the confrontation between Achilles and Odysseus in the Iliad and David and Goliath in the Bible, to the strategic advice of Sun Tzu and Machiavelli, the military innovations of Baron Henri de Jominy and Carl von Clausewitz, the justification of revolutionary strategy in the class struggle Karl Marx, the understanding of corporate strategy by Peter Drucker and Alfred Sloan, as well as the modern application of stratagems and scenarios in sociology and the use of game theory in economics.