ABCD coalition 165, 2 82
Afghanistan: insurgency 260; Soviet invasion
197; ‘war on terror’ 236–7, 239
Africa 152, 195, 197, 231–2
Aidid, M.F. 225
air power 230; mechanization of war 11 8 –19;
World War I 93; World War II 131,
147– 8 , 177
aircraft carriers 120, 176–7
al Qaeda 235, 235–40; ‘new terrorism’ 256,
259–61
Alexander I, Tsar 70
Algeria 7– 8 , 71, 253
all-arms combat teams 93
Allison, G. 261
American Civil War 51, 53, 5 8 , 64, 6 8 –9, 81
American Revolution 7, 55
Amiens, Battle of 90
Amin, H. 197
Anderson, M.S. 59
Andropov, Y. 19 8
Angell, N. 11
Angola 195
Anschluss 110
Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty 196,
206, 214, 215
anti-Japanese coalition 165
appeasement 110–12, 145–6
Arafat, Y. 259
area bombing 126
Aristide, J.-B. 224
Armistice 90
arms race, nuclear 1 88 , 216–17
Aron, R. 16–17
artillery: Napoleon 43; nineteenth century
66–7; World War I 92–3, 115
Asia-Pacific, World War II in 127, 134–5,
153, 157– 8 3; American counter-attack
174–5; American strategy 172– 8 ; Battle
of the Philippine Sea 175, 177– 8 , 1 8 1;
British imperial dimension 179;
characteristics of war and warfare
179– 8 0; the end for Japan 17 8 ; global war
157–9; Japanese bid for empire 159–62;
Japanese strategy 16 8 –72; Japanese–US
relations and drift to war 162–6; pull of
the Pacific 173–4; several possible
strategies for USA 175–7
assault columns 42
atomic weapons 57, 17 8 , 191–2, 20 8 ,
209–10, 2 8 2; see alsonuclear weapons
attrition 1 8 2; World War I 67, 8 1, 8 7– 8 , 94
Auerstädt, Battle of 41
Austria 70–1, 110, 111; Great War with
France 37, 3 8 , 46–7
Austria-Hungary 7 8 –9, 104, 105, 229Bagration, Operation 13 8
Baker, J. 224
barbed wire 67, 92–3
Barry, J.M. 105
Baruch Plan 1 89
Bataan death march 173
Battle of Britain 131
Baylen, Battle of 246
bayonets 42
Beckett, I. 254
Bell, P.M.H. 99
Berlin, Congress of 267, 26 8
Berlin 194; blockade of 1 8 9, 203
Berlin Wall 194; taken down 199–200
Betts, R. 16
‘Big Week’ air offensive 13 8
bin Laden, O. 235, 237, 260