Winning wars: the enduring nature and changing character of victory from Antiquity to the 21st century

Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Foreword : The Chief of the General Staff, General Sir Mark Carleton-Smith, KCB CBE ADC Gen -- Editor's Acknowledgments : Matthias Strohn -- List of Contributors -- Introduction : Sir Hew Strachan -- 1 'Winning' in Classical Ant...

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Weitere Verfasser: Strohn, Matthias 1976- (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford ; Philadelphia Casemate Publishers 2020
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Zusammenfassung:Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Foreword : The Chief of the General Staff, General Sir Mark Carleton-Smith, KCB CBE ADC Gen -- Editor's Acknowledgments : Matthias Strohn -- List of Contributors -- Introduction : Sir Hew Strachan -- 1 'Winning' in Classical Antiquity and the Roman Conception of Victory : Ali Parchami -- 2 The European Concept of 'Winning' in the Middle Ages : John France -- 3 The Early Modern Period in Europe, 1500-1715 : David Parrott -- 4 From the Age of Reason to the European Nation State, 1750-1850 : Jonathan Riley -- 5 'Winning' in World War I, 1914-1919 : Lothar Höbelt -- 6 'Winning' in the World Wars. The British Conceptions of the War-Time Leaders Lloyd George and Winston Churchill, 1914-1945 : Rob Johnson -- 7 'Winning' in the Cold War and the Nuclear Age, 1945-1990 : Jonathan Riley -- 8 Western Strategic Goals and 'Winning' in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001 : Daniel Marston and Carter Malkasian -- 9 A Hollow Victory? Assad's Regime and 'Winning' the Conflict in Syria since 2001 : Richard Kuno -- 10 The Impact of History, Politics and Religion: Three Contrasting Conceptions of 'Winning' in Iran since 1979 : Ali Parchami -- 11 The Chinese Concept of 'Winning' : Kerry Brown -- 12 A Decisive British Victory? The Confrontation with Indonesia, 1963-1966 : Christopher Tuck -- 13 The Ambiguity of Victory: The Spectrum of 'Winning' in African History : Richard Reid -- 14 The Provisional IRA and the Elusive Concept of 'Winning' since 1969 : Aaron Edwards -- 15 Russian Views of 'Winning': 'Velikaya Pobeda' and 'pobedonosnaya voina' : Andrew Monaghan -- 16 'Winning the Peace': The Peacebuilding Paradigm and its Implications for Peacekeepers in the 21st Century : Nicholas Rees -- Conclusion: So, What is 'Winning'? : Andrew Sharpe -- Select Bibliography -- Index
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ISBN:9781952715013