Phillips Payson O'Brien

A bold, revisionist study which challenges modern misconceptions about the creation of power and the operations of war, from a Professor of Strategic Studies. War and power are two of the most-widely discussed issues in all of human history, and yet they are, time and again, misunderstood - often disastrously so. Whilst we might think the outcome of war is...

A bold revisionist history exploring the impact of WW1 on the mindsets and strategic decisions of WW2's most important leaders. In The Strategists, Professor Phillips Payson O'Brien shows how the views these five leaders forged in WW1 are crucial to understanding how they fought WW2. For example, Churchill's experiences of facing the German Army in France in 1916 made him...

A bold, revisionist study which challenges modern misconceptions about the creation of power and the operations of war, from a Professor of Strategic Studies. War and power are two of the most-widely discussed issues in all of human history, and yet they are, time and again, misunderstood—often disastrously so. Whilst we might think the outcome of war is determined by...

A compelling revisionist history which explores the impact of WW1 on the mindsets and strategic decisions of WW2's most important leaders. If we want to understand military strategy, we must first understand the strategist. In The Strategists, Professor Phillips Payson O'Brien delves deep into the psyches of five of the most impactful leaders in modern history—Churchill, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, and...