Churchill: The Making of a Grand Strategist
Abstract
The Building Blocks; The Vertical Dimension; The Early Years; On-The- Job Training; The Continuum of War; The Break in the Continuum; The Maneuver Solution; The Defensive Solution; Force Multipliers; Intelligence; Deception; Science and Technology; The Building Blocks; The Horizontal Dimension; The Political Connection; The Psychological and Economic Connections; The Horizontal-Vertical Interface; Grand Strategy and the Search for Decisiveness; Conflict Termination. 'Churchill is the most bloodthirsty of amateur strategists that history has ever known, 'Adolf Hitler stated in a 1941 speech. 'He is as bad a politician as a soldier and as bad a soldier as a politician.' Hitler was wrong on all counts. Winston Churchill was a competent, experienced and enthusiastic soldier who served as an officer in four wars, beginning as a subaltern on India's northwest frontier and ending as a battalion commander on the Western Front in World War I and while he could not match Hitler's horrific life as a runner in the trenches for most of the war, the future British leader had experienced intense, close quarter combat first hand in many campaigns, many lands before his 25th birthday. Keywords: Military publications; Periodicals; Reports.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1990
- Accession Number
- ADA222453
Entities
People
- David Jablonsky
Organizations
- United States Army War College