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Sir Lawrence Freedman is the professor of war studies at King's College, London. In Strategy: A History, he explores the key themes of strategy across a remarkably wide-ranging variety of spheres, from primate colonies in Tanzania through the Trojan Wars to Henry Ford and contemporary politics. One of the central strategic capabilities he emphasises through all of these is the ability to form coalitions: Genghis Khan’s empire was founded on his...

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