Clausewitz first, and last, and always: War, strategy and intelligence in the twenty-first century

TY - JOUR

T1 - Clausewitz first, and last, and always

T2 - War, strategy and intelligence in the twenty-first century

AU - Hughes, Robert G.

AU - Koutsoukis, Alexandros

N1 - R. Gerald Hughes is Reader in Military History and Director of the Centre for Intelligence and International Security Studies at Aberystwyth University. He is the author of The Postwar Legacy of Appeasement: British Foreign Policy Since 1945 (2014) and Britain, Germany and the Cold War: The Search for a European Détente, 1949–1967 (2007). A review editor of Intelligence and National Security, Hughes is the author of a large number of book chapters and articles (most recently ‘“Fear has large eyes”: The History of Intelligence in the Soviet Union’ in the Journal of Slavic Military Studies; and ‘Between Man and Nature: The Enduring Wisdom of Sir Halford J. Mackinder’ in the Journal of Strategic Studies). He is the editor, or co-editor, of a number of scholarly volumes including: The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Critical Reappraisal (2016); Intelligence and International Security: New Perspectives and Agendas (2011); Intelligence, Crises and Security: Prospects and Retrospects (2008) and Exploring Intelligence Archives: Enquiries into the Secret State (2008). R. Gerald Hughes is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Alexandros Koutsoukis teaches at Aberystwyth University having recently successfully defended his PhD dissertation on the concept of ‘surrender’ in the Peloponnesian War there. He is editorial assistant for the Kantian Review and the author of ‘Building an Empire or Not? Athenian Imperialism and the United States in the 21st Century’ in Foster, Johnson and Edward (eds), The Crisis of the Twenty-First Century: Empire in the Age of Austerity (2014). In 2008, he published Το Δόγμα του προληπτικού πολέμου και ο πόλεμος στο Αφγανιστάν: Διαχείριση κρίσεων ή πολεμική αναμέτρηση (trans: The Preventive War Doctrine and the War in Afghanistan: Crisis Management or War?) for the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP).

PY - 2019/4/16

Y1 - 2019/4/16

KW - Clausewitz

KW - Strategy

KW - War

KW - Intelligence

KW - Military thought

KW - Military history

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85057601203&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1080/02684527.2018.1530867

DO - 10.1080/02684527.2018.1530867

M3 - Review Article

SN - 0268-4527

VL - 34

SP - 438

EP - 455

JO - Intelligence and National Security

JF - Intelligence and National Security

IS - 3

ER -