Routledge Handbook of Strategic Culture
by Kerry M. Kartchner, Briana D. Bowen, Jeannie L. Johnson
Foreword
Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, Johns Hopkins University SAIS
The notion that different polities develop distinct strategic cultures that flow from their geography, demography, and traditions dates back millennia. Indeed, the chapters that comprise Part I of this handbook ably discuss the evolution of the strategic culture paradigm. On the eve of the Peloponnesian War, for example, the Athenian strategos Pericles and the Spartan leader Archidamus sought to assess the balance between Athens and Sparta in an effort to determine whether or not it made sense to go to war with their rival. Their appraisals of the balance between the two city-states included not only economic and military factors but also ...
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