Antulio J. Echevarria II

War's Logic

Strategic Thought and the American Way of War

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Produktbeschreibung

Antulio J. Echevarria II reveals how successive generations of American strategic theorists have thought about war. Analyzing the work of twelve leading theorists, he uncovers the logic that underpinned each theorist's critical concepts, core principles, and basic assumptions about the nature and character of war.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Military Histories
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 149mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9781107465015
• ISBN-10: 110746501X
• Artikelnr.: 59962445

Autorenporträt

Antulio J. Echevarria II is Professor at the US Army War College and former Elihu Root Chair of Military Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. First Principles and Modern War: 1. Alfred Thayer Mahan and Sea Power
2. Billy Mitchell and Air Power
Part II. The Revolt of the Strategy Intellectuals: 3. Bernard Brodie, Robert Osgood and Limited War
4. Thomas Schelling
War as Bargaining and Coercion
5. Herman Kahn and Escalation
Part III. The Counterrevolution of the Military Intellectuals: 6. Henry Eccles and Reforming Strategic Theory
7. J.C. Wiley and Strategy as Control
8. Harry Summers and the Principles of War
Part IV. The Insurrection of the Operational Artists: 9. John Boyd, William Lind and Maneuver
10. John Warden and Air Operational Art
Conclusion.