Strategic studies a reader
The second edition of Strategic Studies: A Reader brings together key essays on strategic theory by some of the leading contributors to the field. This revised volume contains several new essays and updated introductions to each section. The volume comprises hard-to-find classics in the field as wel...
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Routledge
[2014]
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| Edition: | Second edition |
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Table of Contents:
- pt.I. The uses of strategic theory
- Strategic studies and the problem of power
- What is a military lesson?
- Why strategy is difficult
- pt.II. Interpretation of the classics
- Who is afraid of Carl von Clausewitz?: a guide to the perplexed
- "The art of war"
- Strategy: the indirect approach
- Arms and influence
- pt.III. Instruments of war, intelligence and deception
- Some principles of maritime strategy
- Kosovo and the great air power debate
- What's wrong with the intelligence process?
- Deception and intelligence failure: Anglo-German preparation for U-boat warfare in the 1930s
- pt.IV. Nuclear strategy
- The absolute weapon
- The delicate balance of terror
- Attacking the atom: does bombing nuclear facilities affect proliferation?
- pt.V. Irregular warfare and small wars
- Science of guerrilla warfare
- Problems of strategy in China's civil war
- Strategic terrorism: the framework and its fallacies
- Hybrid warfare and challenge
- pt.IV. Future warfare, future strategy
- Weapons: the growth and spread of the precision-strike regime
- The revolution in military affairs with Chinese characteristics
- Iron cannot fight: the role of technology in current Russian military theory
- From Kadesh to Kandahar: military theory and the future of war
- Cyber war will not take place
- The lost meaning of strategy