Robert D. Kaplan
Warrior Politics
Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos
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The side that knows when to fight and when not will take the victory. There are roadways not to be traveled, armies not to be attacked, walled cities not to be assaulted. -Sun-Tzu We live in dangerous times, when a new kind of leadership is required. Visionary and ruthlessly strategic, Warrior Politics extracts the best of the wisdom of the ages for modern leaders who are faced with the complex life-and-death challenges of today's world-and determined to win. Sun-Tzu urges leaders to plan and calculate like a hungry man. Machiavelli defines a policy not by its excellence but by its outcome. Churchill derives his greatne…
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The side that knows when to fight and when not will take the victory. There are roadways not to be traveled, armies not to be attacked, walled cities not to be assaulted. -Sun-Tzu We live in dangerous times, when a new kind of leadership is required. Visionary and ruthlessly strategic, Warrior Politics extracts the best of the wisdom of the ages for modern leaders who are faced with the complex life-and-death challenges of today's world-and determined to win. Sun-Tzu urges leaders to plan and calculate like a hungry man. Machiavelli defines a policy not by its excellence but by its outcome. Churchill derives his greatness from his imagination of history. Livy shows that the vigor to face down adversaries must ultimately come from pride in our own past achievements. Never mind if they call your caution timidity, your wisdom sloth, your generosity weakness, he writes. It is better that a wise enemy should fear you than that foolish friends should praise. Men often oppose a thing merely because they have no agency in planning it, Alexander Hamilton says, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike. Replete with maxims, warnings, examples from history, and shrewd recommendations, Warrior Politics wrests from the past the lessons we need to arm ourselves for the present. It offers an invaluable template for any decision-maker-in foreign policy or in business-faced with high stakes and inadequate knowledge of a mine-filled terrain. As we gear ourselves up for a new kind of war, no book is more prescient, more shrewd, or more essential.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-58836-080-9
- EAN: 9781588360809
- Produktnummer: 15724480
- Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'856 KB
Über den Autor
Robert D. Kaplan is the bestselling author of sixteen books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including Asia's Cauldron, The Revenge of Geography, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts. He is a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security and a contributing editor at The Atlantic, where his work has appeared for three decades. He was chief geopolitical analyst at Stratfor, a visiting professor at the United States Naval Academy, and a member of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board. Foreign Policy magazine has twice named him one of the world's Top 100 Global Thinkers.
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