The American way of war; a history of United States military strategy and policy

The American way of war; a history of United States military strategy and policy

History of United States military strategy and policy

2nd printing.

New York : London : Macmillan ; Collier Macmillan, 1975.

xxiii, 584 p. : maps ; 25 cm.

355.43 W419 1975

(OCoLC)00632091

Includes bibliographical references (p. 553-561) and index.
Contents: Pt. 1. Waging war with limited resource, 1775-1815 -- A strategy of attrition: George Washington -- A strategy of partisan war: Nathan Greene -- The Federalists and Jeffersonians -- pt. 2. Young America as a military power, 1815-1890 -- The age of Winfield Scott -- The founding of American Strategic Studies: Dennis Hart Mahan and Henry Wager Halleck -- Napoleonic strategy: R.E. Lee and the Confederacy -- A strategy of annihilation: U.S. Grant and the Union -- Annihilation of a people: the Indian fighters -- pt. 3. Introduction to world power, 1890-1941 -- A strategy of sea power and empire: Stephen B. Luce and Alfred Thayer Mahan -- Strategy and the Great War of 1914-1918 -- A strategy of air power: Billy Mitchell -- A strategy for Pacific Ocean War: Naval strategists of the 1920s and 1930s -- pt. 4. American strategy in global triumph, 1941-1945 -- The strategic tradition of A.T. Mahan: Strategists of the Pacific War -- The strategic tradition of U.S. Grant: Strategists of the European War -- pt. 5. American strategy in perplexity, 1945- -- The atomic revolution -- Old strategies revisited: Douglas MacArthur and George C. Marshall in the Korean War -- Strategies of deterrence and of action: the strategy of intellectuals -- Strategies of action attempted: To the Vietnam War.
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