Finding that Maxims, principles, enduring truths and the like are very much out of scholarly fashion, Gray decided to create a book that is accessible but not dumbed-down using just such sayings to combat the fact that many people are seriously undereducated in the basics of the natures of, and relations among, war, peace and strategy.-- from the Preface.

U.S. Army Chief of Staff's Professional reading list, 2021. Originally published in hardcover : Santa Barbara, California : Praeger Security International, 2007. Originally published in hardcover in 2007.

Sections included are : War and peace -- Strategy -- Military power and warfare -- Security and insecurity -- History and the future.