An original and challenging strategic test

An original and challenging strategic test

China's power Rise and the logic of the strategy (Paperback)

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Edward N. Luttwak is an author of strategy books both original and challenging. I can only recommend reading his major works translated into French. He has built the theories explaining the longevity of the Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire in his two books The Great Strategy Strategy of the Roman Empire, 2nd ed.La Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire whose reading is captivating. He also formalized all its strategic analyzes in his work particularly well written the great book of strategy.

With the rise of China and the logic of the strategy, Luttwak faces a more difficult problem than in his previous works. It's more of a posteriori analysis of why and how a great strategy worked or take a critical or constructive look at possible strategies face a particular military or political problem, but to identify what is and what should be the strategy of China and against the strategy that are in the process of implementing other powers and neighboring countries most threatened by the Chinese strategy. It is always difficult to analyze this movement and an uncertain future to determine the reasons for past changes. The logic of the strategy applied to the current and future strategy of China concerned Luttwak. According to him, the maintenance of an authoritarian regime combined with a frantic desire to not only military but also economic expansion can only lead to a geo-economic strength and coalition increasingly extended to stem this expansion with the seeds of a potential conflict. For Luttwak, the only large correct strategy for China today to avoid the fate that had earned Germany a similar strategy in the last century, would be to slow down its military growth and adopt a non-threatening strategy This is however not clear to her because of multiple factors: autism major States which weakens the conscience of situations, afterimages of history, resentment can be developed against outside powers, influence the army and other expansionist power centers. In any event, the current strategy of China has already led to a logical reaction against strategic strategy as evidenced by the sometimes surprising at first sight reconciliations between States whose interests appear emnacés by the Chinese strategy. The author reviews (the following chapters are analytical and less ulus removed because it is for the author to prove the accuracy of his reasoning by state government), changes in the strategy of Australia, Japan, Vietnam, Korea, Indonesia, Mongolia, the Philippines and the United States according to corroborate his theory.
Luttwak's book is captivating as his previous books, original and well written. This is a book that has a real argument, enlightening and strong. It is also extremely interesting from the critical eye that covers Sun Tzu whose strategic significance is in his very exaggerated, to prove that Han generals inspired by these ideas were systematically beaten by opponents (including Mongolian or Manchurian ) less aware of the precepts of the art of war, but winning on the field.

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