Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age /

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

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 o...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (952 p.)
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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

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