The New Makers of Modern Strategy: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age

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The New Makers of Modern Strategy

From the Ancient World to the Digital Age

Edited by: Hal Brands
With contributions by: John Bew , John Bew , Lawrence Freedman , Walter Russell Mead , Toshi Yoshihara , Matthew Kroenig , Hew Strachan , Antulio Echevarria , John H. Maurer , Michael Cotey Morgan , James Lacey , Eric Helleiner , Jonathan Kirshner , Iskander Rehman , Matt J. Schumann , Michael V. Leggiere , Charles Edel , Kori Schake , Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh , Sarah C. M. Paine , Priya Satia , Margaret MacMillan , Williamson Murray , Robert Kagan , Tami Biddle , Brendan Simms , Francis Gavin , Daniel Marston , Guy Laron , Tanvi Madan , Sergey Radchenko , Thomas G. Mahnken , Christopher J. Griffin , Dmitry Adamsky , Carter Malkasian , Ahmed S. Hashim , Elizabeth Economy , Seth G. Jones , Sue Mi Terry , Jason K. Stearns , Joshua Rovner , Thomas Rid , John Lewis Gaddis , Eric Edelman , Andrew Ehrhardt and Mark Moyar

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2023

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The essential resource on military and political strategy and the making of the modern world

The 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 Davis 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.

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Hal Brands is the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. His books include The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches Us about Great-Power Rivalry Today.

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"Hal Brands has rounded up over 40 authors for his new edition of The New Makers of Modern Strategy: from the Ancient World to the Digital Age. . . .The third great volume of Makers of Modern Strategy that will feature on every pertinent university or staff college reading list."---Beatrice Heuser, Journal of Strategic Studies --- "It is hard to overstate the importance of this book. The essays provide excellent starting points for research on almost any topic relevant to practitioners, and many of them will endure as the best summaries of thinking on their respective subjects. . . . Reading the book cover to cover would be terrific preparation for a year at any American professional military education institution—or for service in Congress or the executive branch at a time when American strategy appears to be faltering."---John C. Erickson and John A. Nagl, Parameters --- "The book is a great scholarly achievement that has set a new and probably long-lasting benchmark in strategic studies."---Marco Wyss, Journal of Military History and Historiography --- "[Brands] gathers a college of 45 such experts. All are wise after the facts of their field, and each attempts the historian’s equivalent of the owl’s neck rotation—a sweep that, taking in past and present, looks to the future . . . the scholarship on strategy has become internationalized, and Mr. Brands broadens his sights beyond the familiar theorists and practitioners—and beyond the battlefield."---Dominic Green, Wall Street Journal --- "A Project Syndicate Best Reads in 2023"

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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: The Indispensable Art: Three Generations of Makers of Modern Strategy
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Hal Brands

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Part One Foundations and Founders
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1 Strategy: The History of an Idea
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Lawrence Freedman

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2 Thucydides, Polybius, and the Legacies of the Ancient World
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Walter Russell Mead

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3 Sun Zi and the Search for a Timeless Logic of Strategy
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Toshi Yoshihara

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4 Machiavelli and the Naissance of Modern Strategy
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Matthew Kroenig

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5 The Elusive Meaning and Enduring Relevance of Clausewitz
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Hew Strachan

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6 Jomini, Modern War, and Strategy: The Triumph of the Essential
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Antulio J. Echevarria

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7 Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Strategy of Sea Power
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John H. Maurer

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8 Kant, Paine, and Strategies of Liberal Transformation
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Michael Cotey Morgan

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9 Alexander Hamilton and the Financial Sinews of Strategy
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James Lacey

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10 Economic Foundations of Strategy: Beyond Smith, Hamilton, and List
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Eric Helleiner and Jonathan Kirshner

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Part Two Strategy in an Age of Great-Power Rivalry
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11 Sully, Richelieu, and Mazarin: French Strategies of Equilibrium in the Seventeenth Century
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Iskander Rehman

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12 Generational Competition in a Multipolar World: William III and André-Hercule de Fleury
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Matt J. Schumann

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13 Napoleon and the Strategy of the Single Point
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Michael V. Leggiere

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14 John Quincy Adams and the Challenges of a Democratic Strategy
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Charles Edel

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15 Strategic Excellence: Tecumseh and the Shawnee Confederacy
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Kori Schake

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16 Francis Lieber, the Laws of War, and the Origins of the Liberal International Order
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Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh

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17 Japan Caught between Maritime and Continental Imperialism
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S. C. M. Paine

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18 Strategies of Anti-Imperial Resistance: Gandhi, Bhagat Singh, and Fanon
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Priya Satia

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Part Three Strategy in an Age of Global War
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19 Strategy, War Plans, and the First World War
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Margaret MacMillan

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20 The Strategy of Decisive War versus the Strategy of Attrition
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Williamson Murray

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21 Strategy and Total War
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Williamson Murray

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22 Woodrow Wilson and the Rise of Modern American Grand Strategy
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Robert Kagan

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23 Democratic Leaders and Strategies of Coalition Warfare: Churchill and Roosevelt in World War II
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Tami Davis Biddle

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24 The Hidden Hand of History: Toynbee and the Search for World Order
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Andrew Ehrhardt and John Bew

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25 Strategies of Geopolitical Revolution: Hitler and Stalin
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Brendan Simms

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26 Mao Zedong and Strategies of Nested War
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S. C. M. Paine

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Part Four Strategy in a Bipolar Era
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27 Nuclear Strategy in Theory and Practice: The Great Divergence
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Eric S. Edelman

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28 The Elusive Nature of Nuclear Strategy
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Francis J. Gavin

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29 Limited War in the Nuclear Age: American Strategy in Korea
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Daniel Marston

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30 Ben-Gurion, Nasser, and Strategy in the Arab-Israeli Conflict
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Guy Laron

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31 Nehru and the Strategy of Non-Alignment
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Tanvi Madan

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32 Lyndon Johnson and Robert McNamara: Theory Over History and Expertise
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Mark Moyar

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33 Strategies of Détente and Competition: Brezhnev and Moscow’s Cold War
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Sergey Radchenko

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34 Arms Competition, Arms Control, and Strategies of Peacetime Competition from Fisher to Reagan
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Thomas G. Mahnken

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Part Five Strategy in the Post-Cold War World
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35 Dilemmas of Dominance: American Strategy from George H.W. Bush to Barack Obama
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Christopher J. Griffin

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36 The Two Marshals: Nikolai Ogarkov, Andrew Marshall, and the Revolution in Military Affairs
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Dmitry Adamsky

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37 Strategies of Counterinsurgency and Counter-Terrorism after 9/11
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Carter Malkasian

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38 Strategies of Jihad: From the Prophet Muhammad to Contemporary Times
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Ahmed S. Hashim

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39 Xi Jinping and the Strategy of China’s Restoration
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Elizabeth Economy

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40 Soleimani, Gerasimov, and Strategies of Irregular Warfare
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Seth G. Jones

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41 The Strength of Weakness: The Kim Dynasty and North Korea’s Strategy for Survival
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Sue Mi Terry

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42 Strategies of Persistent Conflict: Kabila and the Congo Wars
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Jason K. Stearns

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43 Strategy and Grand Strategy in New Domains
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Joshua Rovner

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44 A Revolution in Intelligence
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Thomas Rid

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45 Grammar, Logic, and Grand Strategy
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John Lewis Gaddis

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The New Makers of Modern Strategy

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Reviews

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Table of contents

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Introduction: The Indispensable Art: Three Generations of Makers of Modern Strategy

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

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

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

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

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

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