Strategic Studies: A Reader
Editat de Thomas Mahnken, Joseph Maioloen Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 ian 2014
The volume comprises hard-to-find classics in the field as well as the latest scholarship. The aim is to provide students with a wide-ranging survey of the key issues in strategic studies, and to provide an introduction to the main ideas and themes in the field. The book contains six extensive sections, each of which is prefaced by a short introductory essay:
- The Uses of Strategic Theory
- Interpretation of the Classics
- Instruments of War, Intelligence and Deception
- Nuclear Strategy
- Irregular Warfare and Small Wars
- Future Warfare, Future Strategy
This new edition will be essential reading for all students of strategic studies, security studies, military history and war studies, as well as for professional military college students.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780415661119
ISBN-10: 0415661110
Pagini: 472
Ilustrații: 3 b/w images and 1 table
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.98 kg
Ediția:Revizuită
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0415661110
Pagini: 472
Ilustrații: 3 b/w images and 1 table
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.98 kg
Ediția:Revizuită
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
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Public țintă
Postgraduate, Professional, and UndergraduateCuprins
General introduction PART I: The uses of strategic theory Introduction 1. Strategic studies and the problem of power, LAWRENCE FREEDMAN 2. What is a military lesson?, WILLIAM C. FULLER, JR. 3. Why Strategy is Difficult, COLIN S. GRAY PART II: Interpretation of the classics Introduction 4. Who’s Afraid of Carl von Clausewitz?: A Guide to the Perplexed, MICHAEL I. HANDEL 5. "The Art of War", SUN TZU 6. Strategy: the indirect approach, BASIL LIDDELL HART 7. Arms and Influence, THOMAS C. SCHELLING PART III: Instruments of war: land, sea, and air power Introduction 8. Some principles of maritime strategy, JULIAN CORBETT 9. Kosovo and the great air power debate, DANIEL L. BYMAN AND MATTHEW C. WAXMAN 10. What’s Wrong with the Intelligence Process?, ROBERT JERVIS 11. Deception and Intelligence Failure: Anglo-German Preparations for U-Boat Warfare in the 1930s, JOSEPH A. MAIOLO PART IV: Nuclear strategy Introduction 12. The absolute weapon, BERNARD BRODIE 13, The delicate balance of terror, ALBERT WOHLSTETTER 14. Attacking the Atom: Does Bombing Nuclear Facilities Affect Proliferation?, SARAH KREPS AND MATTHEW FUHRMANN PART V: Irregular warfare and small wars Introduction 15. Science of guerrilla warfare, T.E. LAWRENCE 16. Problems of strategy in China’s civil war, MAO TSE TUNG 17. Strategic Terrorism: The Framework and its Fallacies, MICHAEL SMITH AND PETER NEUMANN 18. Hybrid Warfare and Challenges, FRANK G. HOFFMAN PART VI: Future warfare, future strategy Introduction 19. Weapons: The Growth and Spread of the Precision-Strike Regime, THOMAS G. MAHNKEN 20. The Revolution in Military Affairs with Chinese Characteristics, JACQUELINE NEWMYER 21. Iron Cannot Fight: The Role of Technology in Current Russian Military Theory, TOR BUKKVOLL 22. From Kadesh to Kandahar: military theory and the future of war, MICHAEL EVANS 23. Cyber War Will Not Take Place, THOMAS RID 24. The lost meaning of strategy HEW STRACHAN
Notă biografică
Thomas G. Mahnken is currently Jerome E. Levy Chair of Economic Geography and National Security at the US Naval War College. He is also a Visiting Scholar at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies at The Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He is the author of Uncovering Ways of War: U.S. Intelligence and Foreign Military Innovation, 1918-1941 (2002), (with James R. FitzSimonds) The Limits of Transformation: Officer Attitudes toward the Revolution in Military Affairs (2003), Technology and the American Way of War Since 1945 (2008), and Uncovering Ways of War: U.S. Intelligence and Foreign Military Innovation, 1918-1941 (2012). He is editor (with Emily O. Goldman) of The Information Revolution in Military Affairs in Asia (2004) and (with Richard K. Betts) Paradoxes of Strategic Intelligence: Essays in Honor of Michael I. Handel (Frank Cass, 2003). He is co-editor of the Journal of Strategic Studies.
Joseph A. Maiolo is Professor of International History in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, UK. He is author of The Royal Navy and Nazi Germany: A study in appeasement and the origins of the Second World War (1998) and Cry Havoc: How the Arms Race Drove the World to War 1931-1941 (2010); co-author of An International History of the Twentieth Century (Routledge, 2004, 2008); and co-editor (with Robert Boyce) The Origins of World War Two: The Debate Continues (2005). He is co-editor of the Journal of Strategic Studies.
Joseph A. Maiolo is Professor of International History in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, UK. He is author of The Royal Navy and Nazi Germany: A study in appeasement and the origins of the Second World War (1998) and Cry Havoc: How the Arms Race Drove the World to War 1931-1941 (2010); co-author of An International History of the Twentieth Century (Routledge, 2004, 2008); and co-editor (with Robert Boyce) The Origins of World War Two: The Debate Continues (2005). He is co-editor of the Journal of Strategic Studies.
Recenzii
'a fine collection of strategic thought' -- Journal of Military History
'An essential text for anyone interested in the development of strategic ideas.' -- Stephan Fruehling, Australian National University, Canberra
‘The new volume makes an excellent contribution to the study of strategy, and to the ongoing debate on the complexity of strategy and the connection between security and strategy. It is also a great and highly recommended teaching tool for advanced course on strategic studies.' -- Mohiaddin Mesbahi, Florida International University
'By a wide margin this is the premier Reader in the field of Strategic Studies. For research as well as teaching it is an invaluable resource.' -- Colin S. Gray, University of Reading
'A brilliant, and unlike most edited collections, coherent, collection of essays by masters past and present on the theory and practice of strategy. A superb primer for any and all students of the subject.'-- Eliot A. Cohen, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC
'A brilliant, and unlike most edited collections, coherent, collection of essays by masters past and present on the theory and practice of strategy. A superb primer for any and all students of the subject.'-- Eliot A. Cohen, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC
'This superb volume provides an essential primer for any student of strategic studies.' -- Theo Farrell, Kings College London, UK
'By a wide margin this is the premier Reader in the field of Strategic Studies. For research as well as teaching it is an invaluable resource.' -- Colin S. Gray, University of Reading, UK
'a fine collection of strategic thought' -- Journal of Military History
'An essential text for anyone interested in the development of strategic ideas.' -- Stephan Fruehling, Australian National University, Canberra
‘The new volume makes an excellent contribution to the study of strategy, and to the ongoing debate on the complexity of strategy and the connection between security and strategy. It is also a great and highly recommended teaching tool for advanced course on strategic studies.' -- Mohiaddin Mesbahi, Florida International University
'An essential text for anyone interested in the development of strategic ideas.' -- Stephan Fruehling, Australian National University, Canberra
‘The new volume makes an excellent contribution to the study of strategy, and to the ongoing debate on the complexity of strategy and the connection between security and strategy. It is also a great and highly recommended teaching tool for advanced course on strategic studies.' -- Mohiaddin Mesbahi, Florida International University
'By a wide margin this is the premier Reader in the field of Strategic Studies. For research as well as teaching it is an invaluable resource.' -- Colin S. Gray, University of Reading
'A brilliant, and unlike most edited collections, coherent, collection of essays by masters past and present on the theory and practice of strategy. A superb primer for any and all students of the subject.'-- Eliot A. Cohen, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC
'A brilliant, and unlike most edited collections, coherent, collection of essays by masters past and present on the theory and practice of strategy. A superb primer for any and all students of the subject.'-- Eliot A. Cohen, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC
'This superb volume provides an essential primer for any student of strategic studies.' -- Theo Farrell, Kings College London, UK
'By a wide margin this is the premier Reader in the field of Strategic Studies. For research as well as teaching it is an invaluable resource.' -- Colin S. Gray, University of Reading, UK
'a fine collection of strategic thought' -- Journal of Military History
'An essential text for anyone interested in the development of strategic ideas.' -- Stephan Fruehling, Australian National University, Canberra
‘The new volume makes an excellent contribution to the study of strategy, and to the ongoing debate on the complexity of strategy and the connection between security and strategy. It is also a great and highly recommended teaching tool for advanced course on strategic studies.' -- Mohiaddin Mesbahi, Florida International University
Descriere
This new edition of the Strategic Studies Reader brings together key essays on strategic theory by some of the leading contributors in the field. It guides students through the theoretical and practical aspects of strategic studies, and includes both classic essays and works of contemporary scholarship.