The evolution of strategy : thinking war from antiquity to the present

The evolution of strategy : thinking war from antiquity to the present

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

xiii, 578 p. ; 24 cm.

355.409 H595 2010

(OCoLC)639166426

Tracing the history of Western thinking about strategy - the employment of military force as a political instrument - from antiquity to the present day; assessing sources from Vegetius to contemporary America, and with a particular focus on strategy since the Napoleonic Wars; author explores the evolution of strategic thought, the social institutions, norms and patterns of behaviour within which it operates, the policies that guide it and the cultures that influence it--Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 506-570) and index.
Contents: What is strategy? -- Warfare and mindsets from antiquity to the Middle Ages -- Warfare and mindsets in early modern Europe -- Themes in early thinking about strategy -- The age and mindset of the Napoleonic paradigm -- The Napoleonic paradigm transformed: from total mobilisation to total war -- Challenges to the Napoleonic paradigm versus the culmination of total war -- Long-term trends and early maritime strategy -- The age of steam to the First World War -- The World Wars and their lessons for maritime strategists -- Maritime strategy in the nuclear age -- War in the third dimension -- Four schools of air power -- Nuclear strategy -- From partisan war to people's war -- Counterinsurgency -- Wars without victories, victories without peace -- No end of history: the dialectic continues -- Epilogue: strategy-making versus bureaucratic politics.
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