A comprehensive survey of the development of strategic thought over two millennia, ranging across land, sea, air and nuclear warfare.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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 without victories, victories without peace 18. No end of history: the dialectic continues 19. Epilogue: strategy making vs. bureaucratic politics 20. Summaries and conclusions.
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 without victories, victories without peace 18. No end of history: the dialectic continues 19. Epilogue: strategy making vs. bureaucratic politics 20. Summaries and conclusions.
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