Freedman's book sits alongside his other work on strategy and argues that many effective strategic ideas are very old. Its chapter list moves through the Bible, the Greeks, Sun Tzu, Machiavelli, Clausewitz, nuclear games, guerrilla thought, OODA loops, and military affairs before taking up labor movements, media, race, religion, elections, and business. This breadth treats strategy as the problem of matching purposes, resources, institutions, and action, rather than as a vocabulary reserved for generals. Open the video here for a guide to the book's scope and its connections among war, politics, society, and management.
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Freedman's wide history of strategy
Lawrence Freedman's Strategy: A History ranges across military, political, business, and social movements to present strategy as a recurring human problem.