25. The First Two Generations of Nuclear Strategists

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. PART ONE. THE ORIGINS OF MODERN WAR
6. 1. Machiavelli: The Renaissance of the Art of War 11
7. 2. Maurice of Nassau, Gustavus Adolphus, Raimondo Montecuccoli, and the "Military Revolution" of the Seventeenth Century 32
8. 3. Vauban: The Impact of Science on War 64
9. 4. Frederick the Great, Guibert, Biilow: From Dynastic to National War 91
10. PART TWO. THE EXPANSION OF WAR
11. 5. Napoleon and the Revolution in War 123
12. 6. Jomini 143
13. 7. Clausewitz 186
14. PART THREE. FROM THE INDUSTRIAL R EVOLUTION TO THE FIRST WORLD WAR
15. 8. Adam Smith, Alexander Hamilton, Friedrich List: The Economic Foundations of Military Power 217
16. 9. Engels and Marx on Revolution, War, and the Army in Society 262
17. 10. The Prusso-German School: Moltke and the Rise of the General Staff 281
18. 11. Moltke, Schlieffen, and the Doctrine of Strategic Envelopment 296
19. 12. Delbrück: The Military Historian 326
20. 13. Russian Military Thought: The Western Model and the Shadow of Suvorov 354
21. 14. Bugeaud, Gallieni, Lyautey: The Development of French Colonial Warfare 376
22. 15. American Strategy from Its Beginnings through the First World War 408
23. 16. Alfred Thayer Mahan: The Naval Historian 444
24. PART FOUR. FROM THE FIRST TO THE SECOND WORLD WAR
25. 17. The Political Leader as Strategist 481
26. 18. Men against Fire: The Doctrine of the Offensive in 1914 510
27. 19. German Strategy in the Age of Machine Warfare, 1914-1945 527
28. 20. Liddell Hart and De Gaulle: The Doctrines of Limited Liability and Mobile Defense 598
29. 21. Voices from the Central Blue: The Air Power Theorists 624
30. 22. The Making of Soviet Strategy 648
31. 23. Allied Strategy in Europe, 1939-1945 677
32. 24. American and Japanese Strategies in the Pacific War 703
33. PART FIVE. SINCE 1945
34. 25. The First Two Generations of Nuclear Strategists 735
35. 26. Conventional Warfare in the Nuclear Age 779
36. 27. Revolutionary War 815
37. 28. Reflections on Strategy in the Present and Future 863
38. List of Contributors 873
39. Bibliographical Notes 877
40. Index 933