THE GRAND STRATEGY OF THE HABSBURG EMPIRE

A WESS MITCHELL

THE GRAND STRATEGY OF THE HABSBURG EMPIRE

Publishing | 2020

Taking readers from the War of the Spanish Succession in the early 1700s to the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, the author argues that the Habsburgs succeeded not through offensive military power or great wealth but by developing strategies that manipulated the element of time in geopolitical competition.