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Viser: The Evolution of Strategy - Thinking War from Antiquity to the Present
The Evolution of Strategy
Thinking War from Antiquity to the Present
Beatrice Heuser
(2010)
Sprog: Engelsk
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- Paperback: 594 sider
- Udgiver: Cambridge University Press (Oktober 2010)
- ISBN: 9780521155243
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.