Strategic Studies (eBook, ePUB)

A Reader
Redaktion: Mahnken, Thomas; Maiolo, Joseph

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This new edition of the Strategic Studies Reader brings together key essays on strategic theory by some of the leading contributors in the field. It guides students through the theoretical and practical aspects of strategic studies, and includes both classic essays and works of contemporary scholarship.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317805588
• Artikelnr.: 40344535

Autorenporträt

Thomas G. Mahnken is currently Jerome E. Levy Chair of Economic Geography and National Security at the US Naval War College. He is also a Visiting Scholar at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies at The Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He is the author of Uncovering Ways of War: U.S. Intelligence and Foreign Military Innovation, 1918-1941 (2002), (with James R. FitzSimonds) The Limits of Transformation: Officer Attitudes toward the Revolution in Military Affairs (2003), Technology and the American Way of War Since 1945 (2008), and Uncovering Ways of War: U.S. Intelligence and Foreign Military Innovation, 1918-1941 (2012). He is editor (with Emily O. Goldman) of The Information Revolution in Military Affairs in Asia (2004) and (with Richard K. Betts) Paradoxes of Strategic Intelligence: Essays in Honor of Michael I. Handel (Frank Cass, 2003). He is co-editor of the Journal of Strategic Studies. Joseph A. Maiolo is Professor of International History in the Department of War Studies, King's College London, UK. He is author of The Royal Navy and Nazi Germany: A study in appeasement and the origins of the Second World War (1998) and Cry Havoc: How the Arms Race Drove the World to War 1931-1941 (2010); co-author of An International History of the Twentieth Century (Routledge, 2004, 2008); and co-editor (with Robert Boyce) The Origins of World War Two: The Debate Continues (2005). He is co-editor of the Journal of Strategic Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

General introduction PART I: The uses of strategic theory Introduction 1. Strategic studies and the problem of power
LAWRENCE FREEDMAN 2. What is a military lesson?
WILLIAM C. FULLER
JR. 3. Why Strategy is Difficult
COLIN S. GRAY PART II: Interpretation of the classics Introduction 4. Who's Afraid of Carl von Clausewitz?: A Guide to the Perplexed
MICHAEL I. HANDEL 5. "The Art of War"
SUN TZU 6. Strategy: the indirect approach
BASIL LIDDELL HART 7. Arms and In¿uence
THOMAS C. SCHELLING PART III: Instruments of war: land
sea
and air power Introduction 8. Some principles of maritime strategy
JULIAN CORBETT 9. Kosovo and the great air power debate
DANIEL L. BYMAN AND MATTHEW C. WAXMAN 10. What's Wrong with the Intelligence Process?
ROBERT JERVIS 11. Deception and Intelligence Failure: Anglo-German Preparations for U-Boat Warfare in the 1930s
JOSEPH A. MAIOLO PART IV: Nuclear strategy Introduction 12. The absolute weapon
BERNARD BRODIE 13
The delicate balance of terror
ALBERT WOHLSTETTER 14. Attacking the Atom: Does Bombing Nuclear Facilities Affect Proliferation?
SARAH KREPS AND MATTHEW FUHRMANN PART V: Irregular warfare and small wars Introduction 15. Science of guerrilla warfare
T.E. LAWRENCE 16. Problems of strategy in China's civil war
MAO TSE TUNG 17. Strategic Terrorism: The Framework and its Fallacies
MICHAEL SMITH AND PETER NEUMANN 18. Hybrid Warfare and Challenges
FRANK G. HOFFMAN PART VI: Future warfare
future strategy Introduction 19. Weapons: The Growth and Spread of the Precision-Strike Regime
THOMAS G. MAHNKEN 20. The Revolution in Military Affairs with Chinese Characteristics
JACQUELINE NEWMYER 21. Iron Cannot Fight: The Role of Technology in Current Russian Military Theory
TOR BUKKVOLL 22. From Kadesh to Kandahar: military theory and the future of war
MICHAEL EVANS 23. Cyber War Will Not Take Place
THOMAS RID 24. The lost meaning of strategy HEW STRACHAN