War's Logic

Name: War's Logic
Author: Antulio J. Echevarria II

Strategic Thought and the American Way of War

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Paperback, 300 blz. | Engels

Cambridge University Press | e druk, 2021

ISBN13: 9781107465015

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Hoofdrubriek : Geschiedenis

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Antulio J. Echevarria II reveals how successive generations of American strategic theorists have thought about war. Analyzing the work of Alfred Thayer Mahan, Billy Mitchell, Bernard Brodie, Robert Osgood, Thomas Schelling, Herman Kahn, Henry Eccles, Joseph Wiley, Harry Summers, John Boyd, William Lind, and John Warden, he uncovers the logic that underpinned each theorist's critical concepts, core principles, and basic assumptions about the nature and character of war. In so doing, he identifies four paradigms of war's nature - traditional, modern, political, and materialist - that have shaped American strategic thought. If war's logic is political, as Carl von Clausewitz said, then so too is thinking about war.

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ISBN13:9781107465015

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:paperback

Aantal pagina's:300

Uitgever:Cambridge University Press

Verschijningsdatum:18-2-2021

Hoofdrubriek:Geschiedenis

Serie:Cambridge Military Histories

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Introduction; Part I. First Principles and Modern War: 1. Alfred Thayer Mahan and Sea Power; 2. Billy Mitchell and Air Power; Part II. The Revolt of the Strategy Intellectuals: 3. Bernard Brodie, Robert Osgood and Limited War; 4. Thomas Schelling; War as Bargaining and Coercion; 5. Herman Kahn and Escalation; Part III. The Counterrevolution of the Military Intellectuals: 6. Henry Eccles and Reforming Strategic Theory; 7. J.C. Wiley and Strategy as Control; 8. Harry Summers and the Principles of War; Part IV. The Insurrection of the Operational Artists: 9. John Boyd, William Lind and Maneuver; 10. John Warden and Air Operational Art; Conclusion.