Edward Luttwak
Prof. Edward N. Luttwak is a strategist and historian known for his works on grand strategy, geoeconomics, military history, and international relations.
Luttwak was born in Romania, educated in schools in Palermo, Sicily and England. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree at the London School of Economics and PhS at Johns Hopkins. Luttwak speaks five languages. He serves or has served as a consultant to: the Office of the US Secretary of Defense, the National Security Council, the US Department of State, the US Army, Navy, and Air Force; he is/has been an adviser to Treaty Allies of the United States. He founded and directs a conservation cattle ranch in the Bolivian Amazon.
Luttwak is combat-trained Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and fought as a volunteer or a contractor in several countries on two continents.
Luttwak is the author of various books and more articles including:
- he Rise of China viz the Logic of Strategy
- Coup d'Etat: a practical handbook
- Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace
- The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire
- The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire
- The Endangered American Dream
- Turbo-Capitalism: Winners and Losers in the Global Economy.
His books are published in: Arabic, Chinese (both Beijing simplified and Taipei traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Indonesian (Bahasa), Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (and Brazilian Portuguese) Romanian, Russian, Spanish (Castilian, Spain, in Argentina and in Venezuela), Swedish, and Turkish.
