Tag: Satan’s Strategy
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Satan’s Strategy: Machiavelli, Milton, and the Logic of Cosmic Power (A Review of “Satan’s Strategy” in Lawrence Freedman’s Strategy: A History)
This essay reviews “Satan’s Strategy” in Lawrence Freedman’s Strategy: A History through a reading of the relationship between Machiavelli, Milton, and the figure of Satan in Paradise Lost. Within it, Satan is understood not merely as a symbol of evil but as a strategic actor who tries to use force, rhetoric, deception, and intelligence operations…