| Description |
1 online resource (594 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; A note on referencing; Part I Introduction; 1 What is strategy?; PART II Long-term constants; 2 Warfare and mindsets from Antiquity to the Middle Ages; 3 Warfare and mindsets in early modern Europe; 4 Themes in early thinking about Strategy; PART III The Napoleonic paradigm and Total War; 5 The age and mindset of the Napoleonic paradigm; 6 The Napoleonic paradigm transformed: From total mobilisation to Total War; 7 Challenges to the Napoleonic paradigm versus the culmination of Total War |
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PART IV Naval and maritime Strategy8 Long-term trends and early maritime Strategy; 9 The age of steam to the First World War; 10 The World Wars and their lessons for maritime Strategists; 11 Maritime Strategies in the nuclear age; PART V Air Power and nuclear Strategy; 12 War in the third dimension; 13 Four schools of air power; 14 Nuclear Strategy; PART VI Asymmetric or 'small' wars; 15 From partisan warfare to people's war; 16 Counterinsurgency; PART VII The quest for new paradigms after the World Wars; 17 Wars without victories, victories without peace |
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18 No end of history: the dialectic continues19 Epilogue: Strategy-making versus bureaucratic politics; 20 Summaries and conclusions; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Comprehensive survey of the development of strategic thought over two millennia, ranging across land, sea, air and nuclear warfare |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Strategy -- History
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War -- History
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Strategy
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War
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Oorlogvoering.
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Militaire strategie.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780511858741 |
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0511858744 |
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