James Lacey

Broschiertes Buch

Gold, Blood, and Power: Finance and War Through the Ages: Finance and War Through the Ages

Beschreibung

This monograph presents a survey of the crucial link between state (national) power, finance, and the capacity to wage war from the ancient era through to the present day. As such, it demonstrates the crucial importance of economic power as the basic underpinning of all strategic considerations and plans. Embedded within this survey, Dr. Lacey provides in-depth case studies that present new debate-sparking insights, such as: * how a military Lilliputian such as Greece defeated the might of the Persian Empire; * how Rome's decision to defeat the Huns proved to be an epic strategic blunder; * how Britain's preparations for hugely increased social spending helped win World War I; and * how the Federal Reserve's inexhaustible money spigot turned the tide of World War II. This publication concludes with some thoughts about the potential problems the United States will face in financing military power in the first-half of the 21st century, as well as the prospects for funding a major increase in military spending in the event of a future military crisis. The Strategic Studies Institute hopes this historical survey will draw attention to an aspect of military power that is too often neglected. Other related titles: Resolving Insurgencies can be found at this link: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-000-01075-7 Al-Qaida After Ten Years of War: A Global Perspective of Successes, Failures, and Prospects -print format can be found at this link: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-055-00248-6 --ePub eBook format can be found at this link: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/999-000-44442-9 Operationalizing Counter Threat Finance Strategies can be found at this link: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-000-01131-1 Economic Security: Neglected Dimension of National Security can be found at this link: http: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-020-01617-9 --also available as an ebook at this link: http: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/999-000-44440-9

Autor

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: JAMES LACEY is the Professor of Strategy at the Marine Corps War College. Prior to that, he was a widely published senior analyst at the Institute for Defense Analyses in Washington, DC. He also teaches graduate level courses in Military History and Global Issues at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities. Mr. Lacey has written extensively for many other magazines, and his opinion columns have been published in National Review, The Weekly Standard, the New York Post, the New York Sun, Foreign Affairs, and many other publications. He is also regularly published in Military History Magazine, Military History Quarterly, and the Journal of Military History. He is the author of Moment of Battle (Bantam), The First Clash (Bantam), Takedown: The 3rd Infantry Division's 21-Day Assault on Baghdad (Naval Institute Press), Pershing (Palgrave-Macmillan), The Making of Peace (Cambridge University Press), The Making of Grand Strategy (Cambridge University Press), and Keep from All Thoughtful Men (USNI, 2010). Mr. Lacey also has a trilogy of works on global terrorism published in 2008 (Naval Institute Press). He is currently working on a book about the relationship between President Franklin Roosevelt, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the War Cabinet during World War II.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: United States Dept. of Defense
• Seitenzahl: 117
• Altersempfehlung: 18 bis 10 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781584876823
• ISBN-10: 1584876824
• Artikelnr.: 49010408