216–17; nuclear revolution 209–11;
nuclear strategy 211–16; the plot 192–3;
strategic challenge 205–6
collective security 102, 103, 106, 26 8 –71,
28 2; limitations of 225–6
colonial conflicts 53
columns, attack 42
combined-arms warfare 90, 93, 94, 146, 2 82
Combined Bomber Offensive (CBO) 137,
282
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
225
communications 5 8 –9, 93
communism 190–1, 192
computer technology 201
Concert/Congress System 70–1, 267– 8 , 2 82
Concert of Europe 51, 52, 70–1
Congress/Concert System 70–1, 267– 8 , 2 82
conoidal bullet (minié ball) 65–6
conscription 3 8 , 41, 67, 110
consensus 274
containment 201–2, 2 82
contexts of strategic history 2, 4, 9–12, 13,
281
continuity and discontinuity 5, 154, 2 8 0–1
control of military 7 8 , 7 8 –9
Coral Sea, Battle of 170, 171
Corbett, J. 67– 8
corps organization 41
counter-insurgency (COIN) 252–3
counter-terrorism (CT) 256– 8
coup d’oeil40, 44, 2 82
credibility 214–16
Crimean War 52, 59, 81
criminal violence 249–50
criminals, terrorists as 247
crisis stability 213
Croatia 229, 230
Cuban Missile Crisis 194, 195
cultural norms 277
cultural revolution 56
cultural understanding 252–3
Czechoslovakia 104, 105, 111; German
occupation 110, 129, 152; Soviet Union
and 1 8 9, 192, 200
Danzig 101, 129, 144
Dardanelles 87
Davout, Marshal 41
Dawes Plan 101–2
Dayton Peace Accords 230
death camps 141, 145
‘deep battle’ 117–1 8
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) 231,
232
Denmark 130
détente 195– 8 , 2 82
deterrence 213–16; extended 214–15, 2 82
disarmament 120–1; Versailles Settlement
101, 104
Disarmament Conference 1932–4 110, 120
discontinuity and continuity 5, 154, 2 8 0–1
division square 41
Dönitz, Admiral 119
Douhet, G. 11 8 –19, 230
Dreikaiserbund 72
duel, war as 23
Dunkirk 130
Dutch East Indies 175–6Eastern Front 91, 129
Echevarria, A. 91
economic context 11; origin of Nazism 109
economic sanctions 94–5, 166, 17 8
economy of force 20, 21
eighteenth-century warfare 35–7
electricity 54; communications 5 8 –9
electronics 54
Enigma 14 8
Enlightenment 1 8 , 35
errors: error thesis of World War I 77;
Germany’s defeat in World War II 150–3;
see alsoincompetence
ETA 259
ethics 29
Ethiopia 195
Etzold, T.H. 216
European Union (EU) 1 8 7, 276
Experimental Armoured Force 116–17
extended deterrence 214–15, 2 82Falkenhayn, E. von 87
fear, honour and interest 2, 5, 79
Ferguson, N. 77
fighter aircraft 11 8 , 119
Finland 130
firepower 64; ignored/misassessed myth of
World War I 7 8 , 8 1; precision firepower
241–2; revolution in (1 8 40–1914) 64,
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