[PDF] Makers Of Modern Strategy From Machiavelli To The Nuclear Age eBook

Author : Peter Paret
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 964 pages
File Size : 46,28 MB
Release : 1986-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198200970

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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.

Author : Victor Davis Hanson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,75 MB
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1400834252

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Timeless lessons from the military strategies of the ancient Greeks and Romans 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 much of the organized violence witnessed today—such as counterterrorism, urban fighting, insurgencies, preemptive war, and ethnic cleansing—has ample precedent in the classical era. The book examines the preemption and unilateralism used to instill democracy during Epaminondas's great invasion of the Peloponnesus in 369 BC, as well as the counterinsurgency and terrorism that characterized Rome's battles with insurgents such as Spartacus, Mithridates, and the Cilician pirates. The collection looks at the urban warfare that became increasingly common as more battles were fought within city walls, and follows the careful tactical strategies of statesmen as diverse as Pericles, Demosthenes, Alexander, Pyrrhus, Caesar, and Augustus. Makers of Ancient Strategy shows how Greco-Roman history sheds light on wars of every age. In addition to the editor, the contributors are David L. Berkey, Adrian Goldsworthy, Peter J. Heather, Tom Holland, Donald Kagan, John W. I. Lee, Susan Mattern, Barry Strauss, and Ian Worthington.

Author : Williamson R. Murray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 44,23 MB
Release : 1998-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521637602

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A study of major military innovations in the 1920s and 1930s.

Author : Hew Strachan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 33,88 MB
Release : 2007-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0199232024

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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 : Beatrice Heuser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 27,28 MB
Release : 2010-10-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 113949256X

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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 evolution of strategic thought, the social institutions, norms and patterns of behaviour within which it operates, the policies that guide it and the cultures that influence it. Ranging across technology and warfare, total warfare and small wars as well as land, sea, air and nuclear warfare, she demonstrates that warfare and strategic thinking have fluctuated wildly in their aims, intensity, limitations and excesses over the past two millennia.

Author : Peter Paret
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 27,43 MB
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0691216037

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These essays provide an authoritative introduction to Carl von Clausewitz and enlarge the history of war by joining it to the history of ideas and institutions and linking it with intellectual biography.

Author : Peter Paret
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 2007-03-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691131306

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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 indispensable to anyone interested in Clausewitz and his theories, and their proper historical context.

Author : Geoffrey Parker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 21,78 MB
Release : 2020-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1107181593

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The new edition of The Cambridge History of Warfare offers an updated comprehensive account of Western warfare, from its origins in classical Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages and the early modern period, down to the wars of the twenty-first century in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.

Author : MacGregor Knox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 23,95 MB
Release : 2001-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521800792

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This book studies the changes that have marked war in the Western World since the thirteenth century.