The evolution of strategy: thinking war from antiquity to the present
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| adam_text | Contents
Acknowledgements page
xi
A note on referencing
xiii
Part I Introduction
1
What is strategy?
3
Art of war or science of war, and technical
definitions of strategy
3
The articulation of different dimensions of Strategy
9
What is this book examining?
29
Part II Long-term constants
2
Warfare and mindsets from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
39
Technology and warfare
39
Causes, aims and ethics of war from the Roman Empire
to the late Middle Ages
42
3
Warfare and mindsets in early modern Europe
54
Causes, aims and practice of war in early modern Europe
54
The ethics of war in early modern Europe
64
4
Themes in early thinking about Strategy
76
Sieges and static defences from Troy to Basra
76
Feudal levies, mercenaries or militia?
82
Battle avoidance or decisive battles?
89
Limited and unlimited wars
97
The enduring quest for eternal principles governing warfare
100
Part III The Napoleonic paradigm and Total War
5
The age and mindset of the Napoleonic paradigm
113
Causes of wars, world-views and war aims
1792-1914 113
The influence of Social Darwinism and racism
123
viu
Contents
6
The Napoleonic paradigm transformed:
from total mobilisation to total war
137
The quest for total victory
139
The centrality of the battle
142
Annihilation of the enemy
145
The universal cult of the offensive
146
Total mobilisation or professional military elites?
152
7
Challenges to the Napoleonic paradigm versus
the culmination of Total War
171
Mars mechanised: the Napoleonic paradigm versus
technological innovation
171
The dissenters: Corbett s limited wars and
Jaurès s
defensive army
176
Lessons of the First World War
179
Strategy responses to the First World War
181
The Second World War: culmination of Total War
194
Part IV Naval and maritime Strategy
8
Long-term trends and early maritime Strategy
201
Strategy on land, at sea and in the air
201
Writing in the age of oar and sail
207
9
The age of steam to the First World War
216
The Anglo-Saxon writers in the age of steam
216
French naval theorists in the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries
233
Germany before the First World War
245
Conclusions
247
10
The World Wars and their lessons for
maritime Strategists
248
The First World War
248
British lessons
250
French lessons
256
The second-tier powers
260
US lessons from the Second World War
266
Conclusions
267
11
Maritime Strategy in the nuclear age
268
The Cold War framework
268
Multiple roles for navies
276
Contents ix
Strategies for second-tier powers
286
Change of world-views and principles in
conducting international affairs
290
Conclusions
291
Part V Air power and nuclear Strategy
12
War in the third dimension
297
Child and grandchild of naval Strategy
297
The beginnings of air power
298
13
Four schools of air power
313
The strategic or city bombing school
314
The military targets school: denial
336
The leadership targeting school: decapitation
342
The political signalling school: games theories
345
Conclusions
350
14
Nuclear Strategy
351
Targets
351
Deterrence
357
Nuclear war-fighting Strategy
366
War taken to its absurd extreme
382
Part VI Asymmetric or small wars
15
From partisan warfare to people s war
387
Two meanings of small war
387
The mosquito and the lion: tactics
397
Hearts and minds I
414
Defence in depth
416
16
Counterinsurgency
419
The legal status of insurgents
419
Brutal repression
422
Hearts and minds II
427
Conclusions
436
Part
VII
The quest for new paradigms
after the World Wars
17
Wars without victories, victories without peace
441
The First World War as turning point?
441
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Contents
Causes,
conduct
and ethics of wars since
1945 444
The relinquishment of the Napoleonic paradigm
453
The return of limited wars
456
Coercion
463
Defensive defence and the relinquishment of victory
467
18
No end of history: the dialectic continues
472
The Napoleonic paradigm strikes back: Summers s
Clausewitzian critique
472
Major war since
1945 477
The return of small wars
480
Future developments
486
19
Epilogue: Strategy-making versus bureaucratic politics
488
Policy and Strategy in practice
488
The frailty of human logic
498
20
Summaries and conclusions
500
Bibliography
506
Index
571
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