The new makers of modern strategy : from the ancient world to the digital age /

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Group Author: Brands, Hal, 1983- (Editor)
Published: Princeton University Press,
Publisher Address: Princeton, NJ :
Publication Dates: [2023]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: [New edition].
Subjects:
Carrier Form: xxii, 1158 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780691204383
0691204381
Index Number: D25
CLC: E81-09
Call Number: E81-09/N532/new ed.
Contents: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction: The Indispensable Art: Three Generations of Makers of Modern Strategy / Hal Brands -- Part One: Foundations and Founders -- 1. Strategy: The History of an Idea / Lawrence Freedman -- 2. Thucydides, Polybius, and the Legacies of the Ancient World / Walter Russell Mead -- 3. Sun Zi and the Search for a Timeless Logic of Strategy / Toshi Yoshihara -- 4. Machiavelli and the Naissance of Modern Strategy / Matthew Kroenig -- 5. The Elusive Meaning and Enduring Relevance of Clausewitz / Hew Strachan
6. Jomini, Modern War, and Strategy: The Triumph of the Essential / Antulio J. Echevarria II -- 7. Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Strategy of Sea Power / John H. Maurer -- 8. Kant, Paine, and Strategies of Liberal Transformation / Michael Cotey Morgan -- 9. Alexander Hamilton and the Financial Sinews of Strategy / James Lacey -- 10. Economic Foundations of Strategy: Beyond Smith, Hamilton, and List / Eric Helleiner and Jonathan Kirshner -- Part Two: Strategy in an Age of Great-Power Rivalry
11. Sully, Richelieu, and Mazarin: French Strategies of Equilibrium in the Seventeenth Century / Iskander Rehman -- 12. Generational Competition in a Multipolar World: William III and André-Hercule de Fleury / Matt J. Schumann -- 13. Napoleon and the Strategy of the Single Point / Michael V. Leggiere -- 14. John Quincy Adams and the Challenges of a Democratic Strategy / Charles Edel -- 15. Strategic Excellence: Tecumseh and the Shawnee Confederacy / Kori Schake -- 16. Francis Lieber, the Laws of War, and the Origins of the Liberal International Order / Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh
17. Japan Caught between Maritime and Continental Imperialism / S.C.M. Paine -- 18. Strategies of Anti-Imperial Resistance: Gandhi, Bhagat Singh, and Fanon / Priya Satia -- Part Three: Strategy in an Age of Global War -- 19. Strategy, War Plans, and the First World War / Margaret MacMillan -- 20. The Strategy of Decisive War versus the Strategy of Attrition / Williamson Murray -- 21. Strategy and Total War / Williamson Murray -- 22. Woodrow Wilson and the Rise of Modern American Grand Strategy / Robert Kagan
23. Democratic Leaders and Strategies of Coalition Warfare: Churchill and Roosevelt in World War II / Tami Davis Biddle -- 24. The Hidden Hand of History: Toynbee and the Search for World Order / Andrew Ehrhardt and John Bew -- 25. Strategies of Geopolitical Revolution: Hitler and Stalin / Brendan Simms -- 26. Mao Zedong and Strategies of Nested War / S.C.M. Paine -- Part Four: Strategy in a Bipolar Era -- 27. Nuclear Strategy in Theory and Practice: The Great Divergence / Eric S. Edelman -- 28. The Elusive Nature of Nuclear Strategy / Francis J. Gavin
29. Limited War in the Nuclear Age: American Strategy in Korea / Daniel Marston -- 30. Ben-Gurion, Nasser, and Strategy in the Arab-Israeli Conflict / Guy Laron -- 31. Nehru and the Strategy of