2,265 words
Correlli Barnett
The Verdict of Peace: Britain Between Her Yesterday and the Future
London: Faber and Faber, 2001
See also: The Collapse of British Power, The Audit of War, & The Lost Victory
[This] book — again like its predecessors — is written from the standpoint of ‘Total Strategy,’ a concept first defined in the preface to The Collapse of British Power in 1972 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 human groups.’ (more…)