ABSTRACT
In the twentieth century the capability of a nation’s armed forces cannot be separated from that nation’s technological capability and industrial resources, or even social fabric. This realization led me, as a military historian by professional origin, to the concept of ‘total strategy’, defined in my 1972 book The Collapse of British Power 1 as strategy conceived as encompassing all the factors relevant to preserving, or extending, the power and prosperity of a human group in the face of rivalry from other groups.2
