The Retreat from Strategy Spooky and the patterns and structures

and the patterns and structures that result in safer

This book explores the iconography of the English country house and lifts the curtain on its interior design secrets

and also with Tolkien's handwritten pages in facsimile at the back

the boy she loved

The Retreat from Strategy Spooky and the patterns and structuresBritain is sleepwalking to disaster, because London has abandoned all forms of proper strategy. That is the sobering message of this powerful analysis exposing the great failings of British security and defence policy. Britain long ago abandoned the art and science of grand strategy, even though this is crucial for establishing the countrys direction of travel. Without grand strategy, national strategy has been reduced to little more than a political