14 The Strategic Culture of the United Kingdom

Alastair Finlan

DOI: 10.4324/9781003010302-17

Introduction

The concept of strategic culture has gained significant intellectual purchase in the United Kingdom. It has sparked rich, occasionally contentious, and fruitful intellectual discussions across numerous academic disciplines, from international relations and its subfield, strategic studies, to military history and war studies since the 1970s. The fascination with strategic culture is perhaps unsurprising. Looking critically through a lens at the history of the present-day United Kingdom reveals much. For a small island nation located within the European continent, it has been a remarkably active and proactive global actor in military and ...

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