The evolution of strategy thinking war from antiquity to the present
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2014
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Pt. I. Introduction: 1. What is strategy?
- Pt. 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
- Pt. 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
- Pt. 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
- Pt. V. Air Power and Nuclear Strategy: 12. War in the third dimension
- 13. Four schools of air power
- 14. Nuclear strategy
- Pt. VI. Asymmetric or 'Small' Wars: 15. From partisan war to people's war
- 16. Counterinsurgency
- Pt. 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.
