Competitive Strategies for the 21st Century: Theory, History, and Practice

摘要

This timely collection of essays is a welcome reminder that the United States is far less prepared - at least in terms of overarching intellectual frameworks to guide its strategies -for twenty-first-century great-power competition than it was during the later stages of the Cold War. As Mahnken points out, the need to address this is urgent because the US faces constraints in terms of domestic politics and resources. Washington needs to 'clarify and prioritise its goals ... and formulate and implement a strategy to leverage American competitive advantages against the range of competitors' (p. 4). The competitive-strategies approach examined here focuses on 'the peacetime use of latent military power to shape a competitor's choices in ways that favour our objectives' (p. 7).