The evolution of strategy : thinking war from antiquity to the present /
"Is there a 'Western way of war' which pursues battles of annihilation and single-minded military victory? Is warfare on a path to ever greater destructive force? This magisterial new account answers these questions by tracing the history of Western thinking about strategy - the emplo...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.