| ID | 182000 |
| Title Proper | Colin Gray and strategic thought |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Thayer, Bradley A |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The history of strategic thought is replete with contributors to the scholarly understanding of definitional issues of strategy and its application in various domains or to specific subjects. In any consideration of a strategic pantheon, Colin Gray ranks as a foremost strategist due to his contribution to the study of strategy from the perspective of theory, history, and policy. His contributions to strategy may be compared to Samuel Huntington’s in the related discipline of political science. As Huntington made a major impact in each subdiscipline of political science, so Gray’s contributions to strategy were comparable and thus define him as a major strategist: he developed a theory of strategy; analyzed strategy and conflict in a contemporary and historical context; made many contributions to nuclear and conventional strategy; helped to demarcate strategy as the object of scholarly study; and as a discipline to be taught. In each of these fields of study, Gray perceived what was generalizable over time and what was not. |
| `In' analytical Note | Comparative Strategy Vol. 40, No.1-6; 2021: p.128-132 |
| Journal Source | Comparative Strategy Vol: 40 No 1-6 |
| Key Words | Strategic Thought ; Colin Gray |