Military strategy : a global history
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Military strategy : a global history
AUTHOR:
Black, Jeremy, 1955-
ISBN:
9780300217186
PUBLICATION_INFO:
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2020.
PHYSICAL_DESC:
xvii, 306 p. ; 24 cm
CONTENTS:
Introduction: the struggle for power -- 1. Strategic contexts in the eighteenth century -- 2. The strategies of continental empires: 1400-1850 -- 3. The reach for world empire: Britain, 1689-1815 -- 4. The rise of Republican strategies: 1775-1800 -- 5. Napoleon and others: 1790-1914 -- 6. The United States in the nineteenth century: 1812-98 -- 7. Europe and the world question: 1816-1913 -- 8. Strategies for World War: 1900-18 -- 9. Strategies for total war: 1919-45 -- 10. Strategies for Cold War: 1945-89 -- 11. Strategies for the current world: 1990- -- Conclusions.
ABSTRACT:
Strategy has existed as long as there has been organised conflict. In this new account, Jeremy Black explores the ever-changing relationship between purpose, force, implementation and effectiveness in military strategy and its dramatic impact on the development of the global power system. Taking a 'total' view of strategy, Black looks at leading powers - notably the United States, China, Britain and Russia - in the wider context of their competition and their domestic and international strengths. Ranging from France's Ancien Regime and Britain's empire building to present day conflicts in the Middle East, Black devotes particular attention to the strategic practice and decisions of the Kangxi Emperor, Clausewitz, Napoleon and Hitler.
TITLE_SUBJECT:
SUBJECT:
| Strategy -- History. |
| World politics. |
| Strategy. |
| Military. |
BIBSUMMARY:
Strategy has existed as long as there has been organised conflict. In this new account, Jeremy Black explores the ever-changing relationship between purpose, force, implementation and effectiveness in military strategy and its dramatic impact on the development of the global power system. Taking a 'total' view of strategy, Black looks at leading powers - notably the United States, China, Britain and Russia - in the wider context of their competition and their domestic and international strengths. Ranging from France's Ancien Regime and Britain's empire building to present day conflicts in the Middle East, Black devotes particular attention to the strategic practice and decisions of the Kangxi Emperor, Clausewitz, Napoleon and Hitler.