War, Peace, and International Relations. An Introduction to Strategic History

commission of fatal errors. Once he had grasped the unwelcome fact that he had no naval answer to the Royal Navy, and to the wea ...

catastrophically in the Ulm and Austerlitz campaign of 1 8 05, and yet it returned to the combat in good enough condition to win ...

war, and then more war, in pursuit of personal glory, family advancement (Napoleon was a good Corsican-Italian), loot and simply ...

Questions What were the main characteristics of eighteenth-century warfare? What was the Napoleonic way of war? Identify its sy ...

Map 4.1 Europe in 1 815 ...

4 The nineteenth century, I A strategic view Introduction: the reach of strategic history The twentieth century was dominated by ...

evidence of progress away from humankind’s seemingly eternal war-prone condition. But what those optimists have done is ignore t ...

forcible creation of both a united Italy and, of infinitely greater significance, a united Germany. In addition, the victory of ...

estimated (and one must emphasize estimated) to have totalled no fewer than 20 million. By any standard of awfulness, the Taipin ...

In order better to appreciate the scope, depth and significance of the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century, it is he ...

The Industrial Revolution, therefore, was one in a short series of mighty upheavals that shaped and reshaped modern strategic hi ...

deterministic way by the burgeoning nationalism that flourished in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. And neither sho ...

The revolution in the use of coal to produce the steam which enabled the mass production of iron and then steel delivered, pre-e ...

since governments henceforth could exercise very near real-time control over distant armies. The electric telegraph enabled comm ...

Questions What was the strategic significance of the railways, food canning and the electric telegraph? How persuasive do you f ...

5 The nineteenth century, II Technology, warfare and international order Introduction: Waterloo to the Marne Today, defence expe ...

The wars of the nineteenth century provided ample evidence of the strategic impact of an accelerating and diffuse process of ind ...

The armament of armies is still susceptible of great improvements; the state which shall take the lead in making them will secur ...

its purpose for both sides, demonstrated yet again that war on a large scale must engage public feeling, and could promote socia ...

enemy forces at Metz and Sedan, French society did not accept that verdict of defeat as nationally decisive. What followed was i ...