![]() ![]() But before diving into specific examples, Stoker lays out a grand unifying theory of war strategy, visualizing it as an inverted pyramid with "policy" at the top, followed by "grand strategy," "strategy," "operations," and "tactics." Other major discussions of military strategy limit the "three areas of warfare" to just strategy, operation, and tactics. Stoker's general thesis is that while the Union eventually developed a brilliant strategy-or "grand design"-to overpower the Confederate Army, it took far too long and cost the nation far too many lives. Civil War (2010), a non-fiction Civil War book, American author and military historian Donald Stoker examines the differing strategies employed by the Union Army and the Confederacy and how these strategies affected the outcome of the war. ![]() In The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. ![]()
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