Why Grand Strategy Still Matters in a World of Chaos

Why Grand Strategy Still Matters in a World of Chaos

"Grand strategy is undeniably difficult to get right, but it beats the alternative, grand strategic nihilism, hands-down."

Hal Brands is Associate Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. He is the author of What Good is Grand Strategy? Power and Purpose in American Statecraft from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush (2014).

Patrick Porter is Professor of Strategic Studies at the University of Exeter, where he is Academic Director of the Strategy and Security Institute. He is the author of The Global Village Myth: Distance, War, and the Limits of Power (2015).

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