Successful Strategies

Successful Strategies

Triumphing in War and Peace from Antiquity to the Present

Murray, Williamson (Ohio State University); Sinnreich, Richard Hart

Cambridge University Press

05/2014

475

Mole

Inglês

9781107633599

15 a 20 dias

Major new study of the key factors that have contributed to the development and execution of successful military and political strategies throughout history. Leading historians reveal how states, military organizations and individuals have crafted successful strategies in case studies ranging from ancient Greece to the end of the Cold War.
Introduction Williamson Murray; 1. The strategic thought of Themistocles Victor Davis Hanson; 2. The grand strategy of the Roman Empire James Lacey; 3. Giraldus Cembrensis, Edward I, and the conquest of Wales Clifford J. Rogers; 4. Creating the British way of war: English strategy in the War of the Spanish Succession Jamel Otswald; 5. Failed, broken, or galvanized? Prussia and 1806 Dennis Showalter; 6. Victory by trial and error: Britain's struggle against Napoleon Richard Hart Sinnreich; 7. The strategy of Lincoln and Grant Wayne Hsieh; 8. Bismarckian strategic policy, 1871-90 Marcus Jones; 9. Dowding and the British strategy of air defense, 1936-40 Colin Gray; 10. US naval strategy and Japan Williamson Murray; 11. US grand strategy in World War II Peter R. Mansoor; 12. American grand strategy and the unfolding of the Cold War, 1945-61 Bradford A. Lee; 13. The Reagan Administration's strategy toward the Soviet Union Thomas G. Mahnken; Afterword Richard Hart Sinnreich.
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