Strategy Types
involves physical violence
military strategy
The first Western Grand Strategist.
Alexander the Great
The founder of the Maritime School.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
The best strategy to avoid war.
Be fully prepared to fight.
combined capabilities to accomplish national objectives
National Strategy
He opposed Scipio Africanus
Hannibal of Carthage
Mahan's book
The Influence of Sea Power Upon History.
The threat of massive retaliation for major communist aggression
Nuclear deterrence
All of the national strategies together.
Grand Strategy.
Great Florentine politico-military theorist
Niccolo Machiavelli
de Seversky's book
Air Power: Key to Survival
The 3 phases of U.S. grand strategy.
Western hemispheric defense, limited interventionism, and containment of communism
Six strategies contained in National Strategy.
political, economic, diplomatic, legal, naval and military
He wrote 115 military maxims
Napoleon Bonaparte
where the 5000 mile strike circles between Russia and the U.S.A. intersect
the Area of Decision
doctrine calling for preemptive attacks against countries harboring terrorists.
Bush doctrine
The first strategist
Sun Tzu
He wrote the book "Vom Kriege"
Clausewitz
MacKinder's term for the Middle East and Southeast Asia
the Inner Crescent
Bush doctrine justified these invasions.
Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003.