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

First Coalition 37, 46
First Gulf War 57, 222, 227, 22 8 –9
flexible response 215
Foch, F. 99
fog of war 26
food, preservation of 5 8
foreign support, denial of 253
France 70–1, 72, 270–1; Algeria 7– 8 , 71,
253; failure of German war plans in 1914
8 5–6; German reoccupation of Rhineland
110–11; Great War with seeGreat War
with France; interwar period 107– 8 , 109,
110–11, 111–12; irregular warfare 255;
mechanization of war 117; nuclear
stockpiles 212; sea power in the
nineteenth century 6 8 ; war with Prussia
18 70–1 63–4, 64–5, 71; World War I 79,
8 6, 8 7, 88 –9; World War II 145–6; see
alsoFrench Revolution
Freedman, L. 240
French Revolution 9, 37–9, 55, 62
friction 25, 29
Frisch, O. 20 8
Fuchs, K. 207
Fuller, J.F.C. 116
futility, World War I and 7 8 , 79– 80

Gaddis, J.L. 195, 216, 275
Gandhi, M. 255
gas, poison 94
Gat, A. 23
Gates, D. 34
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
(GATT) 1 88
general staffs 67
genocide 125, 126; Africa 232; Holocaust
124–5, 140–1
geographical context 12
geopolitics 12, 2 82
German Democratic Republic 194
German Federal Republic 192
Germany 23, 53, 72–3, 99, 192; excellence at
warfare but defeat in wars 7, 154; Four-
Year Plan of economic mobilization 126;
Hitler seeHitler, A.; interwar period
109–12; League of Nations 110, 270;
mechanization of war 117, 11 8 ;
nineteenth century 53, 71–2; nuclear
weapons 207, 20 8 –9; politics and war 23;
Versailles Settlement 100–2, 102–3, 106,

269; World War I seeWorld War I;

World War II seeWorld War II

‘Germany First’ policy 134–5, 173, 174

Gilbert Islands 176, 1 81

glasnost(openness) 199

global war 157–9

globalization 52, 261, 2 82

Gloire 68

Gong, G.W. 26 8

Gorbachev, M. 19 8 , 199–200, 203, 206, 224

Göring, H. 126, 131

Gorlice–Tarnow Breakthrough 87

grammar of war 11–12; and policy logic

26–7, 29

grand narrative 2

grand strategy 1, 2 8 , 1 8 6, 2 8 0, 2 83

Grant, U.S. 64

Gray, C.S. 1, 219, 227, 2 81

Great Depression 109, 2 83

Great Exhibition of 1 8 51 5 8

great war 9, 33–7, 2 83

Great War with France (1792–1 8 15) 9,

31–49, 75; French Revolution and its

warfare 37–9; limited war and great war

33–7; Napoleon’s art of war 39–44;

political and strategic failure 46– 8 ;

problems with the Napoleonic way of war

and warfare 44–6; two transformations

31–3

Greater East Asian Co-prosperity Sphere 169

Greece 6 8 , 152

Guadalcanal campaign 175

Guelff, R. 247

guerrilla warfare 246–53, 256, 2 8 3; see also

irregular warfare

Gulf Wars: First 57, 222, 227, 22 8 –9; 2003

invasion of Iraq 23 8 –9

Hahn, O. 20 8

Haig, D. 8 0, 88 , 89

Haiti 224

Halder, F. 130

Hamilton, I. 82

Handel, M.I. 21–2

Harmon, C. 25 8

Heather, P. 277

hegemonic order 274–5

Heisenberg, W. 207, 20 8 –9

Helsinki Accords 196–7

Heydrich, R. 141

Index 299