Bismarck, O. von 53, 71–2, 75, 267, 26 8
Black, J. 9–10, 33, 115
Blitzkrieg117, 147
Boer War 69
bomber aircraft 11 8 –19, 139
Boog, H. 133
Boot, M. 236
Bosnia-Herzegovina 230
Boulding, K.E. 12 8
Boutros-Ghali, B. 226
Bowden, M. 226
breech-loading rifles 65, 66
Brezhnev, L. 196, 19 8 , 203
Brezhnev Doctrine 200
Briand, A. 107
Britain, Battle of 131
Britain 70–1, 72, 10 8 , 270–1; alliance with
Japan 160; casualties of World War I 8 3,
88 , 8 9; development of tanks 116–17;
eighteenth-century warfare 35; empire and
World War II in Asia-Pacific 179; Great
War with France 33–4; Hitler’s decision
not to invade 152; interwar period
111–12, 120; invasion of Iraq 2003
238 –9; Napoleon and Britain’s trade
45–6; nuclear stockpiles 212; sea power
68 , 94–5; World War I 79, 8 3, 8 6, 88 , 8 9,
90, 94–5; World War II 130–1, 145–6
Brodie, B. 15, 17, 205, 216
Browning, P. 34
Bulge, Battle of the 13 8 –9
Bull, H. 6
Burma 179
Burundi 232
Bush, G. (father) 222–3, 224, 273
Bush, G.W. (son) 237, 23 8 –9
C^4 ISTAR 241, 2 82
Caliphate 260
Callwell, C.E. 24 8 , 254
Campo Formio, Treaty of 46
Canning, G. 70
capital ships 120
Caroline Islands 176, 1 81
Carter, J. 197, 19 8
Castlereagh, Viscount R. 70
casualties: American Civil War 53; Great
War with France 34; World War I 8 2–3,
88 , 8 9, 90, 105; World War II 124, 125,
133, 134
Caucasian oil fields 135
cavalry 43
centre of gravity 26
chain reaction 20 8
Chamberlain, N. 129
chance and creativity 24–5
Chandler, D. 45
character of war 24
charisma 44
Chassepot rifle 66
Chaumont, Treaty of 70
Chechnya 225
Chernenko, K. 19 8
Chernobyl disaster 199
Chiang kai-shek 161, 162, 175, 176
China: American strategy in Asia-Pacific
175–6; Britain in Asia in World War II
179; civil war 1 8 50–64 53–4; Japan and
159–60, 161–2, 170; nuclear stockpiles
212; US–Japanese relations and 163–4,
165, 166
Churchill, W.S. 9, 8 7, 130–1, 154
civil-military relations 7– 8 , 29, 154
civilian population, irregular warfare and
252, 254
Clark, I. 70
Clark, W. 7, 226–7
Clausewitz, C.P.G. von 1, 11, 15–30, 36, 41,
54, 56, 62, 77, 127, 12 8 , 154, 231, 242,
245, 246, 24 8 , 250, 2 8 1, 2 8 2; important
subjects omitted from/treated briefly in
On War 28 –9; Jomini and 19–22;
Napoleon 7, 34, 40; nature of war 23–7;
politics/policy and war 22–3; strategic
ideas and strategic behaviour 16–19;
trinity 24–5, 90, 227
Clemenceau, G. 100
climate change 275
climate of war 25
Clinton, W. 223, 224, 273
code-breaking 14 8
Cohen, E.A. 6, 1 81
Cold War 9, 1 8 4–21 8 , 222, 266, 271–2, 275;
from cold peace to 1 88 –92; consequences
of World War II 1 8 4– 8 ; crisis and
collapse in 19 8 0s 19 8 –200; détente
195– 8 ; development of nuclear weapons
206–9; end of 199–200, 221, 273–4;
interim judgements 200–2; Khrushchev’s
leadership 194–5; nuclear arms race 1 88 ,Index 297