Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age

• Author : Peter Paret,Gordon A. Craig,Felix Gilbert
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release Date : 1986
• ISBN : 9780691027647

American military scholars discuss the evolution of modern war strategy, paying special attention to its nonmilitary phases in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

• Author : Peter Paret,Gordon A. Craig,Felix Gilbert
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release Date : 2010-10-01
• ISBN : 9781400835461

The essays in this volume analyze war, its strategic characterisitics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries. The diversity of its themes and the broad perspectives applied to them make the book a work of general history as much as a history of the theory and practice of war from the Renaissance to the present. Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age takes the first part of its title from an earlier collection

• Author : Hans Rothfels,Sigmund Neumann,Hajo Holborn,Hans Speier
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1943
• ISBN : STANFORD:36105035283444

• Author : Victor Davis Hanson
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release Date : 2012-09-16
• ISBN : 9780691156361

In this prequel to the now-classic Makers of Modern Strategy, Victor Davis Hanson, a leading scholar of ancient military history, gathers prominent thinkers to explore key facets of warfare, strategy, and foreign policy in the Greco-Roman world. From the Persian Wars to the final defense of the Roman Empire, Makers of Ancient Strategy demonstrates that the military thinking and policies of the ancient Greeks and Romans remain surprisingly relevant for understanding conflict in the modern world. The book reveals that

• Author : Peter Paret
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release Date : 2007-03-25
• ISBN : 0691131309

Originally published in 1976, Clausewitz and the State presents a comprehensive analysis of one of the significant thinkers of modern Europe. Peter Paret combines social and military history and psychological interpretation with a study of Clausewitz's military theories and of his unduly neglected historical and political writing. This timely new edition includes a preface which allows Paret to recount the past thirty years of discussion on Clausewitz and respond to critics. A companion volume to Clausewitz's On War, this book is

• Author : Michael Howard
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release Date : 2009
• ISBN : 9780199546190

A new edition of this brilliantly written survey of the changing ways that war has been waged in Europe, from the Norse invasions to the present day, Michael Howard illuminates the way in which warfare has shaped the history of the Continent, its effect on social and political institutions, and the ways in which technological and social change have in turn shaped the way in which wars are fought. This new edition includes a fully updated further reading and a

• Author : Andreas Herberg-Rothe
• Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
• Release Date : 2007-09-13
• ISBN : 9780199232024

The volume considers Clausewitz's timeless On War against the background of actual armed conflict. With scholars from a range of disciplines and countries, it throws new light on a classic text and contemporary issues.

• Author : Williamson R. Murray,Allan R. Millett
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release Date : 1998-08-13
• ISBN : 0521637600

In 1914, the armies and navies that faced each other were alike, right down to the strengths of their companies and battalions and the designs of their battleships and cruisers. Differences were of degree rather than essence. During the interwar period, however, the armed forces grew increasingly asymmetrical, developing different approaches to the same problems. This study of major military innovations in the 1920s and 1930s explores differences in exploitation by the seven major military powers. The comparative essays investigate how

• Author : Beatrice Heuser
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release Date : 2010-10-14
• ISBN : 9781139492560

Is there a 'Western way of war' which pursues battles of annihilation and single-minded military victory? Is warfare on a path to ever greater destructive force? This magisterial account answers these questions by tracing the history of Western thinking about strategy - the employment of military force as a political instrument - from antiquity to the present day. Assessing sources from Vegetius to contemporary America, and with a particular focus on strategy since the Napoleonic Wars, Beatrice Heuser explores the

• Author : Geoffrey Parker
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release Date : 2020-05-31
• ISBN : 9781107181595

The new edition of The Cambridge History of Warfare, written and updated by a team of eight distinguished military historians, examines how war was waged by Western powers across a sweeping timeframe beginning with classical Greece and Rome, moving through the Middle Ages and the early modern period, down to the wars of the twenty-first century in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. The book stresses five essential aspects of the Western way of war: a combination of technology, discipline, and an

• Author : Barry Howard Steiner
• Publisher : Modern War Studies (Hardcover)
• Release Date : 1991
• ISBN : UOM:39015019488876

Steiner analyzes how and why Brodie's understanding of weapons of unparalleled explosive force led him to posit the need for revolutionary strategic thinking in broadminded analytic method and in the focus upon cities as nuclear targets. He shows the tremendous effect Brodie's work had on the intellectual climate in which policy is determined, particularly in his frequent combatting of conventional wisdom.

• Author : Hew Strachan
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release Date : 2013-12-05
• ISBN : 9781107047853

A major contribution to our understanding of contemporary warfare and strategy by one of the world's leading military historians.

• Author : Rupert Smith
• Publisher : Penguin UK
• Release Date : 2012-03-29
• ISBN : 9780718196967

Why do we try to use military force to solve our political problems? And why, when our forces win the military battles does this still fail to solve those problems? It is because the force lacks utility. From Iraq to the Balkans, and from Afghanistan to Chechneya, over the past fifteen years there has been a steady stream of military interventions that have not delivered on their promise for peace, or even political resolution. The Utility of Force explains this

• Author : Carl von Clausewitz
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release Date : 2008-09-02
• ISBN : 9781400837403

The most authoritative and feature-rich edition of On War in English Carl von Clausewitz’s On War is the most significant attempt in Western history to understand war, both in its internal dynamics and as an instrument of policy. Since the work's first appearance in 1832, it has been read throughout the world, and has stimulated generations of soldiers, political leaders, and intellectuals. First published in 1976 and revised in 1984, Michael Howard and Peter Paret’s Princeton edition of Clausewitz’s classic

• Author : Michael I. Handel
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 1992
• ISBN : UOM:39015029221986

A comprehensive comparative analysis of Sun Tzu's (6th cent. B.C.) The art of war, Clausewitz's (1780-1831) On war, and Jomini's (1779-1869) The art of war. Author Handel is Professor of Strategy at the US Naval War College. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR