Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age

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Peter Paret, Gordon A. Craig, Felix Gilbert
OUP Oxford, Oct 30, 1986 - History - 941 pages
War cannot be controlled in future without an understanding of its past. These essays analyse war, its strategic characteristics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries.

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Contents

The Renaissance of the Art of War Felix Gilbert II
11
Maurice of Nassau Gustavus Adolphus Raimondo
32
The Impact of Science on War Henry Guerlac
64
From Dynastic to National
91
Napoleon and the Revolution in War Peter Paret
123
Jomini John Shy
143
Clausewitz Peter Paret
186
The Economic
217
The Political Leader as Strategist Gordon A Craig
481
The Doctrine of the Offensive in 1914
510
German Strategy in the Age of Machine Warfare 19141945
527
The Doctrines of Limited Liability
598
The Air Power Theorists
624
The Making of Soviet Strategy Condoleezza Rice
648
Allied Strategy in Europe 19391945 Maurice Matloff
677
American and Japanese Strategies in the Pacific
703

Engels and Marx on Revolution War and the Army in Society
262
Moltke and the Rise of the General
281
Moltke Schlieffen and the Doctrine of Strategic Envelopment
296
The Military Historian Gordon A Craig
326
The Western Model and
354
The Development of French
376
American Strategy from Its Beginnings through the First World
408
The Naval Historian Philip A Crowl
444
The First Two Generations of Nuclear Strategists Lawrence
735
Conventional Warfare in the Nuclear Age Michael Carver
779
Revolutionary War John Shy and Thomas W Collier
815
Reflections on Strategy in the Present and Future Gordon
863
List of Contributors
873
Index
933
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