Write a 1500 word critical analysis of the following reading: Hew Strachan, “Strategy: Change and Continuity”, in The Direction of War: Contemporary Strategy in Historical Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 253–82.
The paper must reflect on the following guideline, and it must approached through the prism of the study of history of international conflict: The relationship between history and current affairs is a complex one.
Historians tend to agree that looking to the past for definitive ‘lessons’ is a problematic and potentially misleading approach, however a relationship between the past and present clearly does exist.
Give the relationship between history and current affairs is a complex one.
