Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age / / ed. by Gordon A. Craig, Peter Paret, Felix Gilbert.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Alexander, Martin,; Bond, Brian,; Carver, Michael,; Collier, Thomas W.,; Craig, Gordon A.,; Crowl, Philip A.,; Freedman, Lawrence,; Geyer, Michael,; Gilbert, Felix,; Guerlac, Henry,; Holborn, Hajo,; Howard, Michael,; James, D. Clayton,; Mac lsaac, David,; Maloff, Maurice,; Mead Earle, Edward,; Neumann, Sigmund,; Palmer, R. R.,; Paret, Peter,; Pintner, Walter,; Porch, Douglas,; Rice, Condoleezza,; Rothenberg, Gunther E.,; Shy, John,; Weigley, Russell F.,; von Hagen, Mark,
• HerausgeberIn: Craig, Gordon A.,; Gilbert, Felix,; Paret, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]; ©1986
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (952 p.)

The essays in this volume analyze war, its strategic characterisitics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries. The diversity of its themes and the broad perspectives applied to them make the book a work of general history as much as a history of the theory and practice of war from the Renaissance to the present. Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age takes the first part of its title from an earlier collection of essays, published by Princeton University Press in 1943, which became a classic of historical scholarship. Three essays are repinted from the earlier book; four others have been extensively revised. The rest--twenty-two essays--are new. The subjects addressed range from major theorists and political and military leaders to impersonal forces. Machiavelli, Clausewitz, and Marx and Engels are discussed, as are Napoleon, Churchill, and Mao. Other essays trace the interaction of theory and experience over generations--the evolution of American strategy, for instance, or the emergence of revolutionary war in the modern world. Still others analyze the strategy of particular conflicts--the First and Second World Wars--or the relationship between technology, policy, and war in the nuclear age. Whatever its theme, each essay places the specifics of military thought and action in their political, social, and economic environment. Together the contributors have produced a book that reinterprets and illuminates war, one of the most powerful forces in history and one that cannot be controlled in the future without an understanding of its past.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE. THE ORIGINS OF MODERN WAR -- 1. Machiavelli: The Renaissance of the Art of War -- 2. Maurice of Nassau, Gustavus Adolphus, Raimondo Montecuccoli, and the "Military Revolution" of the Seventeenth Century -- 3. Vauban: The Impact of Science on War -- 4. Frederick the Great, Guibert, Biilow: From Dynastic to National War -- PART TWO. THE EXPANSION OF WAR -- 5. Napoleon and the Revolution in War -- 6. Jomini -- 7. Clausewitz -- PART THREE. FROM THE INDUSTRIAL R EVOLUTION TO THE FIRST WORLD WAR -- 8. Adam Smith, Alexander Hamilton, Friedrich List: The Economic Foundations of Military Power -- 9. Engels and Marx on Revolution, War, and the Army in Society -- 10. The Prusso-German School: Moltke and the Rise of the General Staff -- 11. Moltke, Schlieffen, and the Doctrine of Strategic Envelopment -- 12. Delbrück: The Military Historian -- 13. Russian Military Thought: The Western Model and the Shadow of Suvorov -- 14. Bugeaud, Gallieni, Lyautey: The Development of French Colonial Warfare -- 15. American Strategy from Its Beginnings through the First World War -- 16. Alfred Thayer Mahan: The Naval Historian -- PART FOUR. FROM THE FIRST TO THE SECOND WORLD WAR -- 17. The Political Leader as Strategist -- 18. Men against Fire: The Doctrine of the Offensive in 1914 -- 19. German Strategy in the Age of Machine Warfare, 1914-1945 -- 20. Liddell Hart and De Gaulle: The Doctrines of Limited Liability and Mobile Defense -- 21. Voices from the Central Blue: The Air Power Theorists -- 22. The Making of Soviet Strategy -- 23. Allied Strategy in Europe, 1939-1945 -- 24. American and Japanese Strategies in the Pacific War -- PART FIVE. SINCE 1945 -- 25. The First Two Generations of Nuclear Strategists -- 26. Conventional Warfare in the Nuclear Age -- 27. Revolutionary War -- 28. Reflections on Strategy in the Present and Future -- List of Contributors -- Bibliographical Notes -- Index