Grand strategy

Meehl, P. E. (1986). Diagnostic taxa as open concepts Meta-theoretical and statistical questions about reliability and construct validity in the grand strategy of nosological revision. In T. Millon G. L. Klerman (Eds.), Contemporary directions in psychopathology Toward the DSM-IV (pp. 215-231). New York Guilford. 

The starting point for this study of British defence policy between 1904 and 1969 is the tendency for the costs of new weapons systems to rise more rapidly than the national income/ Three main insights are offered. First, British defence policy was based upon technological innovation. Second, reductions in the size of the armed forces to accommodate new weapons systems in defence budgets were not evidence of a decline in power. Third, British grand strategy, incorporating economic as well as military responses to external threats, was much more ambitious than is commonly believed. 

Samuel R. Williamson, The Politics of Grand Strategy (Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 1969). 

Defence expenditure in future years interim report by the Minister for Co-ordination of Defence , CP 316(37), 15 Dec. 1937, GAB 24/273, paras. 7-10. These paragraphs, which the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Simon, called a classic statement of the elements that make up our strength for national defence (Cabinet conclusions, 16 Feb. 1938, CAB 23/92, TNA) are printed in Gibbs, Grand Strategy vol. I, pp. 283. Feiling, Neville Chamberlain, p. 292. 

Grand strategy the period of the Anglo-French alliance... 

Cyril Falls, The Second World War A ShortHistoty (London Methuen, 1948), p.91. Butler, Grand Strategy, vol. II, pp. 442-7 Churchill, Second World War, vol. IB The Grand Alliance (1950), pp. 89-90, 92. 

Grand strategy coalition warfare July 1942-August 1945... 

Gwyer and Butler, Grand Strategy, vol. Ill, pp. 546-7 Hancock and Gowing, British War Economy, pp. 441-7 Howard, Grand Strategy, vol. IV, pp.6—7 Postan, British War Production, pp. 221-5 Webster and Frankland, Strategic Air Offensive, vol. I, p. 343. 

Butler, J. R. M., Grand Strategy, vol. II September 1939-June 1941, London HMSO, 1957. 

Ehrman, John, Grand Strategy, vol. V August 1943—September 1944, and vol. VI October 1944—August 1945, London HMSO, 1956. 

However, reducing these grand strategies to the more mundane level of what we do in the laboratory each day is more difficult. But do we need to answer the question What should be invented Virtually by definition, the inventions (from Latin inventus , find ) that have revolutionised the world, perhaps more often than not have been serendipitous and, therefore, are unpredictable. Well-known examples of such lucky events have taken place in the past century, such as the discovery of poly(tetrafluoroethylene) [Teflon]. Of course, a mind set and circumstances to recognise the unusual, and the ability to turn findings into use, unlike inventions themselves, can and must be created. 

Both classes of polymers were attacked simultaneously, so that free-radical-initiated, self-propagating chain reactions and slow, endothermic step reactions were studied side by side. After the first results were attained, a grand strategy for practical applications developed quite naturally the vinyl- and diene-type addition polymers were pursued with the ultimate aim being the production of a synthetic rubber. The signals coming from the... 

See, for instance, Zhai Qiang, China and America A Troubled Relationship and John Garver, Food for Thought Reflections on Food Aid and the Idea of Another Lost Chance in Sino-American Relations, in Journal of American-East Asian Relations 7(1-2) (Spring/Summer 1998), pp. 93-106. On the theme of domestic mobilization in Chinese foreign policy, see Thomas Christensen, Useful Adversaries Grand Strategy, Domestic Mobilization, and Sino-American Conflict, 1947-1978 (Princeton, 1996), Chapters 5 and 6. 

Christensen, Thomas J. Useful Adversaries Grand Strategy, Domestic Mobilization, and Sino-American Conflict, iy4j-iyy8. Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press, 1996. 

GRAl integrated methodology (GIM), 507, 512-514 Grainger, 783 Grand strategy, 11... 

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