Uses an abundant variety of historical examples to examine the true nature of strategy and demonstrates the failure of commonsense logic in particular strategic concepts. -- amazon.com.

INCLUDES INDEX.

Preface -- Part I. The logic of strategy. 1. The conscious use of paradox in war -- 2. The logic in action -- 3. Efficiency and the culminating point of success -- 4. The coming together of opposites -- Part II. The levels of strategy. 5. The technical level -- 6. The tactical level -- 8. Theater strategy I : Military options and political choices -- 9. Theater strategy II : Defensive formats and the guerrilla option -- 10. Theater strategy III : Interdiction and the surprise attack -- 11. Nonstrategies : Naval, air, nuclear -- Part III. Outcomes : grand strategy. 12. The scope of grand strategy -- 13. Armed suasion -- 14. Harmony and disharmony in war -- 15. Can strategy be useful? -- Appendices : 1. Definitions of strategy -- 2. The Soviet army : a note -- 3. NATO, the Soviet army, and other Warsaw Pact armies : terms of comparison.