COLIN S. GRAY is a professor of international politics and strategic studies and the director of the Centre for Strategic Studies, University of Reading, England. He is the author of twenty-three books, including National Security Dilemmas: Challenges and Opportunities (Potomac Books, Inc., 2008), and several dozen government reports. He lives in Wokingham, United Kingdom.
"[Gray] has sustained and enhanced a reputation as the
English-speaking world's leading strategic thinker. Gray's work has
always eschewed abstraction for empiricism. His theoretical studies
never fall prey to wishful thinking or mirror-imaging. His
strategic analyses incorporate strong historical elements. Fighting
Talk, though unpretentious in structure, represents the
distillation of a career's worth of study and reflection in these
contexts."—Journal of Military History
"Attributing his inspiration for this work to the seminal military
thinker Carl von Clausewitz, Gray has come up with forty maxims of
military strategy that he believes cover most of the intellectually
essential elements for the education of a strategist and presents
them accompanied by short explanatory essays. They are grouped into
sections on war and peace, strategy, military power and warfare,
security and insecurity, and history and the future."—Reference &
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