| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 1158 pages) |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction: The Indispensable Art: Three Generations of Makers of Modern Strategy -- Part One Foundations and Founders -- 1 Strategy: The History of an Idea -- 2 Thucydides, Polybius, and the Legacies of the Ancient World -- 3 Sun Zi and the Search for a Timeless Logic of Strategy -- 4 Machiavelli and the Naissance of Modern Strategy -- 5 The Elusive Meaning and Enduring Relevance of Clausewitz -- 6 Jomini, Modern War, and Strategy: The Triumph of the Essential -- 7 Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Strategy of Sea Power -- 8 Kant, Paine, and Strategies of Liberal Transformation -- 9 Alexander Hamilton and the Financial Sinews of Strategy -- 10 Economic Foundations of Strategy: Beyond Smith, Hamilton, and List -- Part Two Strategy in an Age of Great-Power Rivalry -- 11 Sully, Richelieu, and Mazarin: French Strategies of Equilibrium in the Seventeenth Century -- 12 Generational Competition in a Multipolar World: William III and André-Hercule de Fleury -- 13 Napoleon and the Strategy of the Single Point -- 14 John Quincy Adams and the Challenges of a Democratic Strategy -- 15 Strategic Excellence: Tecumseh and the Shawnee Confederacy -- 16 Francis Lieber, the Laws of War, and the Origins of the Liberal International Order -- 17 Japan Caught between Maritime and Continental Imperialism -- 18 Strategies of Anti-Imperial Resistance: Gandhi, Bhagat Singh, and Fanon -- Part Three Strategy in an Age of Global War -- 19 Strategy, War Plans, and the First World War -- 20 The Strategy of Decisive War versus the Strategy of Attrition -- 21 Strategy and Total War -- 22 Woodrow Wilson and the Rise of Modern American Grand Strategy -- 23 Democratic Leaders and Strategies of Coalition Warfare: Churchill and Roosevelt in World War II -- 24 The Hidden Hand of History: Toynbee and the Search for World Order -- 25 Strategies of Geopolitical Revolution: Hitler and Stalin -- 26 Mao Zedong and Strategies of Nested War -- Part Four Strategy in a Bipolar Era -- 27 Nuclear Strategy in Theory and Practice: The Great Divergence -- 28 The Elusive Nature of Nuclear Strategy -- 29 Limited War in the Nuclear Age: American Strategy in Korea -- 30 Ben-Gurion, Nasser, and Strategy in the Arab-Israeli Conflict -- 31 Nehru and the Strategy of Non-Alignment -- 32 Lyndon Johnson and Robert McNamara: Theory Over History and Expertise -- 33 Strategies of Détente and Competition: Brezhnev and Moscow's Cold War -- 34 Arms Competition, Arms Control, and Strategies of Peacetime Competition from Fisher to Reagan -- Part Five Strategy in the Post-Cold War World -- 35 Dilemmas of Dominance: American Strategy from George H.W. Bush to Barack Obama -- 36 The Two Marshals: Nikolai Ogarkov, Andrew Marshall, and the Revolution in Military Affairs -- 37 Strategies of Counterinsurgency and Counter-Terrorism after 9/11 -- 38 Strategies of Jihad: From the Prophet Muhammad to Contemporary Times -- 39 Xi Jinping and the Strategy of China's Restoration -- 40 Soleimani, Gerasimov, and Strategies of Irregular Warfare -- 41 The Strength of Weakness: The Kim Dynasty and North Korea's Strategy for Survival -- 42 Strategies of Persistent Conflict: Kabila and the Congo Wars -- 43 Strategy and Grand Strategy in New Domains -- 44 A Revolution in Intelligence -- 45 Grammar, Logic, and Grand Strategy -- Index |
| Summary |
The essential resource on strategy and the making of the modern worldThe New Makers of Modern Strategy is the next generation of the definitive work on strategy and the key figures who have shaped the theory and practice of war and statecraft throughout the centuries. Featuring entirely new entries by a who's who of world-class scholars, this new edition provides global, comparative perspectives on strategic thought from antiquity to today, surveying both classical and current themes of strategy while devoting greater attention to the Cold War and post-9/11 eras. The contributors evaluate the timeless requirements of effective strategy while tracing the revolutionary changes that challenge the makers of strategy in the contemporary world. Amid intensifying global disorder, the study of strategy and its history has never been more relevant. The New Makers of Modern Strategy draws vital lessons from history's most influential strategists, from Thucydides and Sun Zi to Clausewitz, Napoleon, Churchill, Mao, Ben-Gurion, Andrew Marshall, Xi Jinping, and Qassem Soleimani.With contributions by Dmitry Adamsky, John Bew, Tami Biddle, Hal Brands, Antulio J. Echevarria II, Elizabeth Economy, Charles Edel, Eric S. Edelman, Andrew Ehrhardt, Lawrence Freedman, John Lewis Gaddis, Francis J. Gavin, Christopher J. Griffin, Ahmed S. Hashim, Eric Helleiner, Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, Seth G. Jones, Robert Kagan, Jonathan Kirshner, Matthew Kroenig, James Lacey, Guy Laron, Michael V. Leggiere, Margaret MacMillan, Tanvi Madan, Thomas G. Mahnken, Carter Malkasian, Daniel Marston, John H. Maurer, Walter Russell Mead, Michael Cotey Morgan, Mark Moyar, Williamson Murray, S.C.M. Paine, Sergey Radchenko, Iskander Rehman, Thomas Rid, Joshua Rovner, Priya Satia, Kori Schake, Matt J. Schumann, Brendan Simms, Jason K. Stearns, Hew Strachan, Sue Mi Terry, and Toshi Yoshihara |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographic references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from pdf of title page (ProQuest, viewed on July 17, 2023) |
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Strategy.
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Military art and science.
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Military history, Modern.
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HISTORY / Military / Strategy
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Strategy
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Brands, Hal, 1983- editor.
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Bew, John.
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Freedman, Lawrence.
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Mead, Walter Russell.
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Yoshihara, Toshi.
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Kroenig, Matthew.
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Strachan, Hew.
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Echevarria, Antulio
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Maurer, John H.
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Morgan, Michael Cotey.
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| ISBN |
0691226725 |
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9780691226729 |
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