The American Way of War – A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy

Russell F. Weigley

Introduction
Part One: Waging War With Limited Resources, 1775-1815
1 A Strategy of Attrition: George Washington
2 A Strategy of Partisan War: Nathanael Greene
3 The Federalists and the Jeffersonians
Part Two: Young America as a Military Power, 1815-1890
4 The Age of Winfield Scott
5 The Founding of American Strategic Studies: Dennis Hart Mahan and Henry Wager Halleck
6 Napoleonic Strategy: R.E. Lee and the Confederacy
7 A Strategy of Annihilation: U.S. Grant and the Union
8 Annihilation of a People: The Indian Fighters
Part Three: Introduction to World Power, 1890-1941
9 A Strategy of Sea Power and Empire: Stephen B. Luce and Alfred Thayer Mahan
10 Strategy and the Great War of 1914-1918
11 A Strategy of Air Power: Billy Mitchell
12 A Strategy for Pacific Ocean War: Naval Strategists of the 1920s and 1930s
Part Four: American Strategy in Global Triumph, 1941-1945
13 The Strategic Tradition of A.T. Mahan: Strategists of the Pacific War
14 The Strategic Tradition of U.S. Grant: Strategists of the European War
Part Five: American Strategy in Perplexity, 1945-
15 The Atomic Revolution
16 Old Strategies Revisited: Douglas MacArthur and George C. Marshall in the Korean War
17 Strategies of Deterrence and of Action: The Strategy Intellectuals
18 Strategies of Action Attempted: To the Vietnam War
Notes
Select Bibliography of American Writings on Military Strategy, Theoretical, and Historical
Index