Beatrice Heuser (University of Reading)

The Evolution of Strategy

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Produktbeschreibung

This magisterial account traces the history of Western thinking about strategy from antiquity to the present day. Assessing sources from Vegetius onwards, and with a particular focus on strategy since the Napoleonic Wars, Heuser explores themes ranging across land, sea, air, nuclear and total warfare.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Originaltitel: Den Krieg denken
• Seitenzahl: 594
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 928g
• ISBN-13: 9780521155243
• ISBN-10: 052115524X
• Artikelnr.: 30622523

Autorenporträt

Beatrice Heuser is Chair of International History at the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Reading. Her widely-translated publications include Reading Clausewitz (2002) and The Bomb: Nuclear Weapons in their Historical, Strategic and Ethical Context (1999).

Inhaltsangabe

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 vs. the culmination of total war
Part IV. Naval and Maritime Strategy
8. 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 strategy 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 war to people's war; 16. Counterinsurgency; Part VII. The Quest for New Paradigms after the World Wars
17. Wars withoutvictories, victories without peace
18. No end of history: the dialectic continues
19. Epilogue: strategy making vs. bureaucratic politics
20. Summaries and conclusions

Rezensionen

'This is a real masterpiece. As a history of strategic thinking, ancient and modern, it is comprehensive, learned and authoritative. Its discussion of contemporary issues is shrewd and illuminating. It is lucid, wise, often witty, and above all, deeply humane. It should be essential reading for all students and practitioners of strategy: indeed I doubt whether they will need any other for a long time to come.' Sir Michael Howard, former Regius Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford