Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age (eBook)

Peter Paret, Gordon A. Craig, Felix Gilbert (Herausgeber)

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2010
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3546-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Authoritative and convincing.New York Times Book ReviewThe classic reference on the theory and practice of warThe essays in this volume analyze war, its strategic characterisitics, and its political and social functions over the past five centuries. The diversity of its themes and the broad perspectives applied to them make the book a work of general history as much as a history of the theory and practice of war from the Renaissance to the present. Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age takes the first part of its title from an earlier collection of essays that became a classic of historical scholarship. Three essays are repinted from the earlier book while four others have been extensively revised. The resttwenty-two essaysare new.The subjects addressed range from major theorists and political and military leaders to impersonal forces. Machiavelli, Clausewitz, and Marx and Engels are discussed, as are Napoleon, Churchill, and Mao. Other essays trace the interaction of theory and experience over generationsthe evolution of American strategy, for instance, or the emergence of revolutionary war in the modern world. Still others analyze the strategy of particular conflictsthe First and Second World Warsor the relationship between technology, policy, and war in the nuclear age. Whatever its theme, each essay places the specifics of military thought and action in their political, social, and economic environment. Together, the contributors have produced a book that reinterprets and illuminates war, one of the most powerful forces in history and one that cannot be controlled in the future without an understanding of its past.

Autor

Peter Paret is Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History at Stanford University. He is the author of Clausewitz and the State: The Man, His Theories, and His Times (Princeton Paperback) and editor and translator, with Michael Howard of Clausewitz's On War (Princeton). Gordon A. Craig is J. E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Stanford University. Felix Gilbert is Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.10.2010
• Co-Autor: Russell F. Weigley
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Adolf Hitler • Aircraft • Alfred Thayer Mahan • amphibious warfare • armistice • Armoured warfare • Army • artillery • Attrition warfare • Battle • B. H. Liddell Hart • Blitzkrieg • Blockade • British armed forces • British Army • Bundeswehr • Calculation • Carl von Clausewitz • Cavalry • Colonialism • Combatant • Conscription • counterattack • decisive victory • Defence minister • Envelopment • European theatre of World War II • Field army • foreign policy • Fortification • Franco-Prussian War • Frederick the Great • French army • French revolutionary wars • German General Staff • grand strategy • Great Power • imperialism • Indochina • infantry • J. F. C. Fuller • limited war • Line of communication • Literature • mercenary • Militarism • Military • Military advisor • military art • military doctrine • military history • Military Operation • Military organization • Military policy • Military science • Military Service • Military Strategy • Military tactics • Military Technology • Military theory • militia • morale • Napoleon • napoleonic wars • national security • nuclear strategy • Nuclear warfare • nuclear weapon • Officer (armed forces) • on war • Operation Barbarossa • Peter Paret • Politician • Politics • Politique • prussia • Prussian army • Regiment • Requirement • Schlieffen Plan • Siege • Soviet Union • strategic bombing • strategist • Superiority (short story) • Technology • Total War • treatise • trench warfare • Two-front war • Uncertainty • war • war effort • warfare • Weapon • Western Europe • World War • World War I • World War II • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3546-1 / 1400835461
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3546-1 / 9781400835461