PositiveThe Wall Street JournalUnlike its storied predecessor [Makers of Modern Strategy], Mr. Gaddis’s book has the advantage of being a long walk with a single, delightful mind, which makes it much easier for the reader to comprehend the lessons that cohere across continents and millennia ... On Grand Strategy is not a perfect book. It gives short shrift to the Eastern tradition, with only a brief nod to Sun Tzu, whose writings emphasize indirect rather than direct conflict...And the book doesn’t adequately examine the impact of the nuclear revolution on military strategy ... At a time when conventional war with China, Russia, North Korea and Iran are all very real possibilities, On Grand Strategy is a book that should be read by every American leader or would-be leader.
