Grand Strategy and Military Alliances

Herausgeber: Mansoor, Peter; Murray, Williamson

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Alliances have shaped grand strategy and warfare since the dawn of civilization. Indeed, it is doubtful that the United States of America would have gained its independence without its Revolutionary War alliance with France. Such alliances may prove even more important to international security in the twenty-first century. Economic and financial difficulties alone will ensure that policy makers attempt to spread the burden of securing vital interests onto other nations through alliances, both formal organizations such as NATO and informal alliances of convenience as developed to wage the Gulf War in 1991. A team of leading historians examine the problems inherent in alliance politics and relationships in the framework of grand strategy through the lens of history. Aimed at not just the military aspects of alliances, the book uncovers the myriad factors that have made such coalitions succeed or fail in the past.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 745g
• ISBN-13: 9781107136021
• ISBN-10: 1107136024
• Artikelnr.: 43545730

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: grand strategy and alliances Peter R. Mansoor and
Williamson Murray; Part I. Maritime Powers and the Continental Commitment:
2. Grand strategy, alliances, and the Anglo-American way of war Williamson
Murray; 3. The Anglo-Prussian alliance and the Seven Years War Dennis
Showalter; 4. Preserved by friend and foe alike: the sixth coalition
against revolutionary France Richard Hart Sinnreich; 5. The Franco-British
military alliance during World War I Paul Harris; 6. The grand alliance in
World War II Mark A. Stoler; 7. Adapt and survive: NATO in the Cold War
Ingo Trauschweizer; Part II. The Political and Military Challenges of
Coalition Warfare: 8. The Peloponnesian War and Sparta's strategic
alliances Victor Davis Hanson and David L. Berkey; 9. The Anglo-Burgundian
alliance and grand strategy in the Hundred Years War Clifford J. Rogers;
10. The Franco-American alliance during the War for Independence Mark
Grimsley; 11. The alliance that wasn't: Germany and Austria-Hungary in
World War I Marcus Jones; 12. The Axis Williamson Murray; 13. The Gulf War,
1990-91: a coalition of convenience in a changing world Richard Swain; 14.
Conclusion: alliances and coalitions in the twenty-first century Peter R.
Mansoor; Index.