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With criticism of contemporary strategy so fierce and so widespread these days, a theory with the potential to enhance strategic practice is most welcome.

British failures in the implementation of strategy have been recently noted by the eminent historian Sir Hew Strachan.[i] The nature and extent of American strategic miscues meanwhile have been documented in sources too numerous to list here.[ii] Thus, Colin Gray’s Strategy Bridge: Theory for Practice, which comes to the aid of strategic practice by organizing and explicating its body of theory, is both timely and germane.

As explained elsewhere, Strategy Bridge is a worthy addition to any library.[iii] However, the purpose of this review is to extend the critique further and to promote discussion.

Gray’s Strategy Bridge seeks to advance a “general theory of strategy explicable in terms that should be universally and eternally valid.”[iv] This ta