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Strategic studies is aninterdisciplinaryacademic field centered on thestudy of peace and conflict strategies, often devoting special attention to the relationship betweenmilitary history,international politics,geostrategy,international diplomacy,international economics, andmilitary power. In the scope of the studies are also subjects such as the role ofintelligence,diplomacy, and international cooperation for security and defense. The subject is normally taught at thepost-graduate academic or professional, usually strategic-political and strategic-military levels.[1]
Strategic studies is closely associated with grand strategy, which astate's strategy of how means (military and nonmilitary) can be used to advance and achieve national interests in the long-term.[2][3][4][5]
The academic foundations of the subject began with analysis of texts such asSun Tzu’sArt of War andCarl von Clausewitz’sOn War. In recent times, the major conflicts of the nineteenth century and the twoWorld Wars have spurred strategic thinkers such asMahan,Corbett,Giulio Douhet,Liddell Hart and, later,André Beaufre. The Cold War with its danger of degenerating into a nuclear war produced an expansion of the discipline, with authors likeBernard Brodie,Michael Howard,Raymond Aron,Lucien Poirier,Lawrence Freedman,Colin Gray, and many others.