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

dimension to the Third Reich that certainly put moral and emotional fuel behind the belated decision to resist it. Nevertheless, ...

Army in World War II, although Kursk in July 1943 is a strong candidate. The Wehrmacht suffered heavy losses in Russia from the ...

added. Air power came of age between 1939 and 1945. Inevitably, it disappointed those who harboured exaggerated expectations of ...

World War II, and especially in the war on the Eastern Front, Nazi ideology contributed positively to morale and fighting spirit ...

in some practice, German grand strategy was hindered by the unswerving commitment to achievement of world dominance for a racial ...

happened, but they were both at least possible, perhaps probable. By 1942 it was almost certainly too late for Germany. The wind ...

the imperial and cultural purposes of his regime. If Hitler and his Germany were to have avoided these great mistakes, they woul ...

To invade Russia. Many people make the mistake of arguing that because Germany failed in Russia, the attack must have been an e ...

a silent role of influence over the narrative and argument. However, so rich – indeed extreme – was the strategic history of Wor ...

The importance of the fifth theme, the connection between war and society, was demonstrated in all respects by World War II. Thi ...

Further reading C. Barnett Engage the Enemy More Closely: The Royal Navy in the Second World War(New York: W. W. Norton, 1991). ...

12 World War II in Asia–Pacific, I Japan and the politics of empire Introduction: global war In its origins, stakes and purposes ...

Map 12.1 The Pacific in 1939 ...

and Asia–Pacific determined that the former ultimately would have to be brought down by continental warfare. The latter, by cont ...

China. By the time of the crisis in relations with the United States in 1941, Japan had long detached Korea, de factoManchuria a ...

membership in the ranks of the great powers was the ability ‘to put up a serious fight in an all-out conventional war against th ...

was not pre-arranged. Although Japan bore heavy responsibility for the inflammatory political context of Sino-Japanese relations ...

regionally – towards China in 1894–5 and Russia in 1904–5 – and was committed to building a first-class navy. One did not requir ...

China as an ancient and highly sophisticated civilization, many Americans viewed it as a potential Asian America. They saw China ...

States was understood to be, at best, futile. Japan could not defeat the United States, and US possessions in the Western Pacifi ...