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Carregando... The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire (edição: 2019)de A. Wess Mitchell (Autor)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. While I'm not quite as impressed with the author as he is with himself this is a useful examination of how the Habsburg state steered a viable course of survival by the use of effective diplomacy and making the most of those geographical features that aided its chances, thus providing still useful lessons in statecraft under circumstances of constrained options. Mitchell's conclusions on the demise of Habsburg power is that this was not a foreordained outcome; this is despite the rise of ethnonationalism, the introduction of railroads (which eroded Habsburg defensive options) and the ever-present enmity of the House of Prussia. For Mitchell the key point is that Francis Joseph made bad policy choices in terms of prioritizing military power (but doing so in a very inefficient fashion), failing to forge effective alliances and forgetting the Habsburg rule of thumb that anything that didn't facilitate the survival of the House of Austria should be sacrificed without too much sentiment. I will admit that it's hard to grant the author all the seriousness he probably deserves in as much as he recently left the service of the Trump Administration to spend more time with his family. ( ) sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
The Habsburg Empire's grand strategy for outmaneuvering and outlasting stronger rivals in a complicated geopolitical worldThe Empire of Habsburg Austria faced more enemies than any other European great power. Flanked on four sides by rivals, it possessed few of the advantages that explain successful empires. Its army was not renowned for offensive prowess, its finances were often shaky, and its populace was fragmented into more than a dozen ethnicities. Yet somehow Austria endured, outlasting Ottoman sieges, Frederick the Great, and Napoleon. The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire tells the story of how this cash-strapped, polyglot empire survived for centuries in Europe's most dangerous neighborhood without succumbing to the pressures of multisided warfare.Taking readers from the War of the Spanish Succession in the early 1700s to the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, A. Wess Mitchell argues that the Habsburgs succeeded not through offensive military power or great wealth but by developing strategies that manipulated the element of time in geopolitical competition. Unable to fight all their enemies at once, the Habsburgs learned to use the limited tools at their disposal-terrain, technology, and treaty allies-to sequence and stagger their conflicts, drive down the costs of empire, and concentrate scarce resources against the greatest threat of the moment. Rarely holding a grudge after war, they played the "long game" in geopolitics, corralling friend and foe alike into voluntarily managing the empire's lengthy frontiers and extending a benign hegemony across the turbulent lands of middle Europe.A study in adaptive statecraft, The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire offers lessons on how to navigate a messy geopolitical map, stand firm without the advantage of military predominance, and prevail against multiple rivals. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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