ABSTRACT
Others go still broader, arguing that grand strategy is a state’s theory about how it can best “cause” security for itself, and that there may be military, political and/or economic strategies within an overarching grand strategy.5 There is a great deal of merit to this broadest perspective, in that it can help to explain the overall foreign and security policy actions of a state. It is a valuable big-picture perspective. But it is not the focus of this book. Rather, this book takes as its starting-point the original Clausewitzian definition of strategy, noted above, and paraphrased in the 1986 Makers volume as “the use of armed force to achieve the military objectives and, by extension, the political purpose of the war.”6
