Strategy for Action

Rapidly approaching the end of our first decade in Afghanistan and recently returned from a bruising mission in Iraq, it is time to examine why our military forces struggle on modern operations. The answer is strategy. We rarely have it. We don't know how to form it. We don't even really know what it is. Strategy For Action explains how it should be done. Lessons from history, current business practice and new insights are fused into a framework for strategic decision making.

ISBN 1908134003   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9781908134004 (What's this?)   Pages 352 Publisher Knightstone Publishing Ltd   Published in London Imprint Knightstone Publishing Ltd   Height (mm) 196 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 129 Publication date 31 Jan 2011   Academic level General DEWEY 355.02

"His analysis is damning ... This thorough and educative volume should become the standard textbook for anyone embarking on a study of strategy ... This should become the "must read", not just for any aspiring military officer, but for anyone in government, academia or the media who will have anything to do with judgement about the use of military force ... Commodore Jermy's superb exploration of strategic thinking should provide an electric shock to at least parts of the system." Bernard Jenkin MP, Chairman, PASC (Public Administration Select Committee), 02 Jan 2011 "Essential reading for anyone making or likely to be asked to implement strategy." Peter Hore in Warships International Fleet Review(Mar 2011 edn) "I think it is excellent. In the 1990s we divorced war-fighting from war winning. We lost our ability to think clearly at the strategic level and connect military operations to the accomplishment of policy goals and objectives. This is an important monograph and I know that there would be considerable interest in the U.S." Brigadier General H.R. McMaster, US Army. "I read Strategy for Action with enormous enjoyment. It is full of good things. Especially valuable is his three-fold definition of war, and his distinction between the Clausewitzean and Jominian schools of thought. ... I think he has written an excellent book, and I hope it gets widely read." - Sir Michael Howard

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