100 turning points in military history: the critical decisions, key events, and breakthrough inventions and discoveries that shaped warfare around the world
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| adam_text | Contents Introduction.................................................................................................. xi Battle of Megiddo: The Birth ofWarfare (1457 BC).................................... 1 Tiglath-Pileser III: The Birth of Military Civilization (745-727 BC)............ 4 Sun Tzu: The Birth of Strategy (c. 511 BC)....................................................8 Spartans at Thermopylae: The Perfection of Military Civilization (480 BC)................................................................................. 11 Battles of Gaugamela and Hydaspes: Alexander Proves His Genius for War (331 and 326 BC)..........................................................17 Battle of Cannae: Hannibal’s Masterpiece (216 BC).................................... 22 Battle of Zama: Hannibal’s Defeat (202 BC)..............................................25 Reforms of Marius: The Roman Legion as Model for Military Organization (105 BC).............................................................................. 29 Spartacus: History’s First Insurgent (73-71 BC)..........................................33 The Gallic Wars: Caesar Rising (58-51 BC).................................................37 Crossing the Rubicon: Caesar Triumphant (49 BC).....................................40 The Pax Romana Begins: Rome Dominant (29 BC).................................... 44 Battle of the Teutoburg Forest: The Limits of Imperial Militarism (AD 9).....................................................................................46 Second Battle of Adrianople: The Western Empire
Starts to Fall (378) ... 49 Battle of Chalons: The Turning Point That Might Have Been (451)............ 52 Battle of Tours: Muslims v. Franks (732).................................................... 55 Feudalism as a Military Civilization: Epoch of Knight, Armor, Sword, and Longbow (800-1200).......................................................... 58 Rise of the Raid: Viking Warfare in Ireland, Britain, Western Europe, and Russia (800-1000)................................................................ 62 Battle of Hastings: Why the Norman Conquest Matters (1066) ............... 66 War as Pilgrimage: The First Crusade (1096-1099).................................... 70 Genghis Khan: The “Perfect War Emperor” (1190-1227)........................... 74 Battles of Liegnitz and Sajó River: Mongol Invasions of Europe (1241)..............................................................................................78 Swiss Victory at Morgarten Pass: Rise of the Pike and the Mercenaries (1315).................................................................................... 80 Battle of Crécy: Infantry Crushes Chivalry’s Flower (1346)........................ 83 Battle of Agincourt: When the Knights Fell (1415).......................................86 Joan of Arc in Command: The Power of a “Force Multipiier” 91 (1429-1444)...................................................................
Contents Siege of Constantinople: Mehmed II Ascendant (1453)................................ 96 Cortês Takes the Aztec Empire: Conquest Comes to the New World (1518-1521).......................................................................................... 98 Babur Storms North India: Invasion Becomes Empire (1525-1526) . . . 101 Battle of Mohács: Christian Europe at Bay (1526).................................... 103 The Holy League Triumphs at Lepanto: Victory at Sea (1571)................ 106 Fate of the Spanish Armada: The “Friction of War” (1586-1588)............. 109 “Defenestration of Prague” Begins the Thirty Years’War: Old Europe Out the Window (1618)...........................................................114 Gustavus Adolphus at Zenith: Creating Military Supremacy (1631) . . . 117 Total Warfare Sweeps New England: Race Wars in the Wilderness (1636-1678)........................................................................... 120 Condé v. Turrenne at the Battle of the Dunes: Clash of the Great Captains: (1658).............................................................................. 124 Battle of Blenheim: The Perfection of AUiance Warfare (1704)................ 128 Frederick the Great of Prussia: The Making of a MiUtary Superpower (1740-1763).............................................................................................. 132 France and Britain in India: Imperialism by Proxy War (1751-1760) . . . 136 The Battle of Fort Necessity: Young George Washington Starts a World War
(1754)..................................................................................... 139 Frederick’s Victory at Leuthen: “Masterpiece of Maneuver and Resolution” (1757)..................................................................................... 143 Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill: An American Mibtary Is Born (1775)........................................................................................... 145 Battle of Trenton: Washington’s Genius for War (1776)............................. 149 USS Bonhomme Richard v. HMS Serapu·. The One-Man Navy ofJohn Paul Jones (1779)........................................................................... 152 Battles of Hondschoote, Menin, and Wattignies: Kingless Victories (1793)........................................................................................... 157 From Toulon to Campo Formio: The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte (1793-1797).............................................................................. 159 Tactics Triumphant: The Age of Napoleon, Clausewitz, and Mahan (1800-1850)........................................................................... 163 Barbary Wars: Fighting Terrorism (1801-1815)..............................................167 Annus Mirabilis: Napoleon’s Brilliant Year (1805)....................................... 170 Battle ofTrafalgar: Nelsons Fatal Masterpiece (1805)................................. 173 Friedrich Krupp Starts a Steel Works: Artillery Becomes an Industry and War Is Transformed (1811).................................................... 177 From Moscow to
Waterloo: Napoleonic Retreat (1812-1815)....................... 180 Choosing War in 1812: America v. Britain (1812-1814).......................... 184 Bolivar: The Art of Liberation Warfare (1812-1825)................................. 189 VIII
Contents The Wars of Shaka Zulu: A Native Empire in Africa (1816-1828) .... 192 Scott Takes Veracruz: The U.S. Army Conducts Its First Amphibious Operation (1847)................................................................. 194 The Great Mutiny in India: Birth of the British Raj (1857-1858)............. 198 Battle of Antietam: Lincoln Wins a Platform for Emancipation (1862) . . 201 The Battle of Gettysburg: The Civil War Finds Purpose: (1863)................ 205 Total War: William T. Sherman and the Calculus of Victory (1864-1865).............................................................................................. 208 Battle of the Little Bighorn: Shock and Awe on the Northern Plains (1876).............................................................................................. 212 Industrial Firepower: Hiram Maxim’s Machine Gun(1884)..................... 215 Battle of Wounded Knee: How the “Indian Wars” Ended (1890)............. 218 The USS Maine Explodes: Finding an Excuse for War (1898).................... 221 Boers Hold Off an Empire: The High Cost of Insurgent Warfare (1899-1902).............................................................................................. 225 The Boxer Rebellion: Leveraging a Little War on China (1900)................ 228 The Naval Campaign of Tsushima: Japan Redefines Victory (1905). . . . 232 Assassination in Sarajevo: Bringing a World to War (1914).......................236 From Schlieffen Plan to the Miracle on the Marne: How the Fog of War Descends
(1914)........................................................................239 Unrestricted: Submarine Warfare in World War I(1915-1917)..................... 242 Exit the Russians, Enter the Americans: The Disruption of World War I (1917-1918)........................................................................... 247 Hutier Tactics: A German General Changes Modern Warfare at Riga (1917)..................................................................................................250 Rush to Disarm: The London and Geneva Conferences (1930-1934). . . 253 Rehearsal for a Second Act: The Spanish Civil War Goes Global (1936-1939).............................................................................................. 256 Blitzkrieg: Germany’s Combined-Arms Invasion of Poland (1939) .... 260 Winston Churchill Becomes Prime Minister: The Role of the Great Man in War (1940)........................................................................... 263 Total War: The Blitz, Battle of Britain, and Rationale for Strategic Bombing (1940-1945).............................................................................. 267 Enigma and Ultra: Information Becomes War’s Ultimate Weapon (1939-1945).............................................................................................. 271 The Aircraft Carrier: A New Platform for War (1942)............................. 275 The Batde of Midway: What a Turning Point Looks Like (1942)................ 278 Holocaust: The Wannsee Conference Plans the “Final Solution” (1942). . . 282 Battle of Stalingrad: The Tide Turns on the
Eastern Front (1942)................ 284 Operation Overlord and the D-Day Landings: Breakthrough from the West (1944)................................................................................. 288 IX
Contents Hiroshima, August 6: The New Wages of War (1945) ............................. The National Security Act Is Passed: The United States Remodels Its Military (1947).................................................................................... Berlin Blockade and Berlin Airlift: A Model Cold War Victory (1948-1949).............................................................................................. A Treaty Signed in Brussels: The Creation of NATO (1949)................... The Birth of “Limited War”: Finding a “Substitute for Victory” in Korea (1950-1951)................................................................................. Battle of Dien Bien Phu: The Domino Theory Emerges (1954)................ Herman Kahn Publishes On Thermonuclear War. Challenging the MAD Doctrine (1960)....................................................................... The Cuban Missile Crisis: Strategy at the Thermonuclear Brink (1962) . . The Arab-Israeli War ofJune 5-10: Three Fronts, Six Days, Total Victory (1967)................................................................................. The Tet Offensive: Pyrrhic Victory in the Vietnam War (1968)................ My Lai Massacre and the Pentagon Papers: The Road to an AllVolunteer Force (1969-1971).................................................................... Limits of Military Superpower: The Iranian Hostage Crisis (1979-1981).............................................................................................. The Gulf War: The Architecture of Coalition Warfare (1990)................... From
the F-117A to the Predator: The Rise of Stealth and Drone Weapons Technology (1989-1994)............................................. The Bosnian War: European Tribalism (1992-1995)................................ “The First War of the Twenty-first Century”: 9/11 and the Era of Endless American War (2001- )............................................................. The Bronze Soldier of Tallinn: Cyber Becomes the New Battlefield (2007)....................................................................................... 292 295 297 300 303 307 309 312 316 319 322 326 328 332 335 338 340 Index.....................................................................................................................343 x
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