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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xiii
4. Contributors xv
5. Introduction: The Indispensable Art: Three Generations of Makers of Modern Strategy 1
6. Part One Foundations and Founders
7. 1 Strategy: The History of an Idea 17
8. 2 Thucydides, Polybius, and the Legacies of the Ancient World 41
9. 3 Sun Zi and the Search for a Timeless Logic of Strategy 67
10. 4 Machiavelli and the Naissance of Modern Strategy 91
11. 5 The Elusive Meaning and Enduring Relevance of Clausewitz 116
12. 6 Jomini, Modern War, and Strategy: The Triumph of the Essential 145
13. 7 Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Strategy of Sea Power 169
14. 8 Kant, Paine, and Strategies of Liberal Transformation 193
15. 9 Alexander Hamilton and the Financial Sinews of Strategy 218
16. 10 Economic Foundations of Strategy: Beyond Smith, Hamilton, and List 241
17. Part Two Strategy in an Age of Great-Power Rivalry
18. 11 Sully, Richelieu, and Mazarin: French Strategies of Equilibrium in the Seventeenth Century 269
19. 12 Generational Competition in a Multipolar World: William III and André-Hercule de Fleury 295
20. 13 Napoleon and the Strategy of the Single Point 319
21. 14 John Quincy Adams and the Challenges of a Democratic Strategy 344
22. 15 Strategic Excellence: Tecumseh and the Shawnee Confederacy 369
23. 16 Francis Lieber, the Laws of War, and the Origins of the Liberal International Order 391
24. 17 Japan Caught between Maritime and Continental Imperialism 415
25. 18 Strategies of Anti-Imperial Resistance: Gandhi, Bhagat Singh, and Fanon 440
26. Part Three Strategy in an Age of Global War
27. 19 Strategy, War Plans, and the First World War 471
28. 20 The Strategy of Decisive War versus the Strategy of Attrition 495
29. 21 Strategy and Total War 522
30. 22 Woodrow Wilson and the Rise of Modern American Grand Strategy 545
31. 23 Democratic Leaders and Strategies of Coalition Warfare: Churchill and Roosevelt in World War II 569
32. 24 The Hidden Hand of History: Toynbee and the Search for World Order 593
33. 25 Strategies of Geopolitical Revolution: Hitler and Stalin 616
34. 26 Mao Zedong and Strategies of Nested War 638
35. Part Four Strategy in a Bipolar Era
36. 27 Nuclear Strategy in Theory and Practice: The Great Divergence 665
37. 28 The Elusive Nature of Nuclear Strategy 692
38. 29 Limited War in the Nuclear Age: American Strategy in Korea 717
39. 30 Ben-Gurion, Nasser, and Strategy in the Arab-Israeli Conflict 741
40. 31 Nehru and the Strategy of Non-Alignment 765
41. 32 Lyndon Johnson and Robert McNamara: Theory Over History and Expertise 789
42. 33 Strategies of Détente and Competition: Brezhnev and Moscow’s Cold War 817
43. 34 Arms Competition, Arms Control, and Strategies of Peacetime Competition from Fisher to Reagan 841
44. Part Five Strategy in the Post-Cold War World
45. 35 Dilemmas of Dominance: American Strategy from George H.W. Bush to Barack Obama 869
46. 36 The Two Marshals: Nikolai Ogarkov, Andrew Marshall, and the Revolution in Military Affairs 895
47. 37 Strategies of Counterinsurgency and Counter-Terrorism after 9/11 918
48. 38 Strategies of Jihad: From the Prophet Muhammad to Contemporary Times 946
49. 39 Xi Jinping and the Strategy of China’s Restoration 972
50. 40 Soleimani, Gerasimov, and Strategies of Irregular Warfare 996
51. 41 The Strength of Weakness: The Kim Dynasty and North Korea’s Strategy for Survival 1022
52. 42 Strategies of Persistent Conflict: Kabila and the Congo Wars 1046
53. 43 Strategy and Grand Strategy in New Domains 1067
54. 44 A Revolution in Intelligence 1092
55. 45 Grammar, Logic, and Grand Strategy 1119
56. Index 1141