Since ancient times, poets, historians, and philosophers have contemplated warlords' exploits in battle and praised their ability to lead armies toward victory as the "art of the general." Today, this quality is designated military strategy. Military strategy plays a vital role in everyconflict, because, as the United States' involvement in the Vietnam conflict showed, when the overarching strategy is weak it is possible to win every battle but still lose a war. Taking inspiration particular disserviced women and their mental health; how the reality of women's lives are inimical to the development and maintenance of a robust sense of well-being. The starting point for the book is the clear evidence that women suffer more mental health problems than men. In the past there has been a pronounced tendency to explain women's madness by referring to the faulty functioning of women's bodies. All reproductive functions from menarche to menopausehave been seen aspathological. For many years it was believed that mental distress in women could be reduced to some hormonal or other form of somatic derangement and treated by removing the offending reproductive parts. These essentialist views about women's 'nature' are scrutinised in the book. Astbury argues that the dominance of such views obscured until recently the effect that culture and women's social position had on their lives and mental health. The need for a new paradigm for looking atr shows that military strategy is essential for understanding major events of the past andbecomes even more critical today, in a world increasingly threatened by weapons of mass destruction, terrorist attacks, and new dimensions of conflict, such as cyberwar and space. | Military Strategy: A Very Short Introduction by Antulio J. Echevarria, Paperback | Indigo Chapters