\aThe art of creating power : \b Freedman on strategy / \c edited by Benedict Wilkinson & James Gow.
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\aNew York : \b Oxford University Press, \c 2017.
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\axxvii, 484 p. : \b ill. ; \c 23 cm.
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\aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 437-452) and index.
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\a1. Strategic theory as an intellectual system -- 2. Uncomfortable visions : the rise and decline of the idea of limited war -- 3. Reflections on Lawrence Freedman's "Deterrence" -- 4. Deterrence and diplomacy : reflections on American post-9/11 homeland security -- 5. Ethics in asymmetrical war -- 6. The rise, fall, and resurgence of "just war" thinking from Cicero to Chicago -- 7. Humanitarian intervention : lessons from the past few decades -- 'Realism as an unsentimental intellectual temper' : Lawrence Freedman and the new interventionism -- 9. Essence of indecision : coup scripts, Ngo Dinh Diem, and the Kennedy administration -- 10. The operational legacy of the Falklands War -- 11. The Iraq syndrome revisited : America's use of force debate under Obama -- 12. Britain's journey to a national security approach and the evolution of a defence academy -- 13. Trust and government relations -- 14. The essence of strategy : constructivist realism and necessity 15. Freedman on Machiavelli -- 16. Strategic scripts and nuclear disarmament -- 17. Confessions of a premature constructivist -- 18. Observations on Whitehall and academia -- 19. Reflections on the Freedman school -- 20. Conclusion.
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