| Description |
xiii, 578 pages ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN |
9780521199681 hardback |
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0521199689 hardback |
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9780521155243 paperback |
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052115524X paperback |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 506-570) and index. |
| Contents |
Part I: Introduction. What is strategy? -- Part II: Long-term constants. Warfare and mindsets from antiquity to the Middle Ages -- Warfare and mindsets in early modern Europe -- Themes in early thinking about strategy -- Part III: The Napoleonic paradigm and total war. 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 -- Part IV: Naval and maritime strategy. 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 -- Part V: Air power and nuclear strategy. War in the third dimension -- Four schools of air power -- Nuclear strategy -- Part VI: Asymmetric or 'small' wars. From partisan warfare to people's war -- Counterinsurgency -- Part VII: The quest for new paradigms. Wars without victories, victories without peace -- No end of history: the dialectic continues -- Epilogue: Strategy-making versus bureaucratic politics -- Summaries and conclusions. |
| Library Class |
Mil Sci AB20
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| Subject |
Strategy -- History.
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War -- History.
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