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

victory disease 25, 69, 147
Vienna Settlement 71, 267
Viet Cong 250
Vietnam War 196, 197, 250, 254
vision, Hitler and 143, 144–6

Wannsee Conference 141
war 2 8 4; cultural rejection of 276; making
and unmaking of states 2; mechanization
of seemechanization of war; motives for
2; nature of 23–7; new paradigm of 219;
and peace 8 –9, 155; and politics 6, 154;
and society 8 , 155; and warfare 6–7, 154
war correspondents 59
war guilt 101, 104
war loans, repayment of 102
war–peace cycle 8 –9, 264–5
warfare 2 8 4; eighteenth century 35–7;
information age 240–2; Napoleonic way
39–46; nineteenth century 63–9; war and
6–7, 154; World War I 90–5; World War
II 146–9
Warrior 68
Washington, G. 7
Washington–London naval disarmament
regime 120–1, 163
Waterloo, Battle of 42, 45, 47
weapons: Napoleon 42–3; nineteenth century
63–9; nuclear seenuclear weapons;
strategic ideas and development of 1 8
weapons of mass destruction (WMD) 23 8 ,
284
Wellington, Duke of 7, 42
West Africa 231, 232
Western Front 59, 8 9–90, 91, 92, 94, 129
Wildavsky, A. 276
Wilhelm II, Kaiser 53, 72, 7 8 , 95
Wilson, W. 100, 101, 102, 163, 26 8
Wohlstetter, A.J. 275

World Bank 1 88

World Disarmament Conference 110, 120

world orders, new seenew world orders

World War I 9, 12, 56–7, 59, 62, 66, 75–97;

Allies as ‘last men standing’ 8 9–90;

attrition 67, 8 1, 8 7– 8 , 94; casualties 8 2–3,

88 , 8 9, 90, 105; contested history 77– 8 2;

course of the war 8 5–90; failure of war

plans in 1914 8 5–6; Japan 161; military

revolution 55; modern warfare 90–5;

myths about 7 8 – 8 2; political upheaval and

growing military competence in 1917

88 –9; Versailles and legacy of 100–6;

victory elusive in 1915 87

World War II 8 , 9, 12, 77, 8 0, 124– 8 3; in

Asia-Pacific seeAsia-Pacific, World War

II in; consequences of 1 8 4– 8 ; course of

the war 129–39; final throw and reversal

in 1943 136–7; first moves in 1939

129–30; Germany’s ‘happy time’ in 1940

130–1; Hitler seeHitler, A.; real war in

1941 131–4; structure of the war 126–9;

tipping point in 1942 134–6; total war

124–6; trap closes in 1944 13 8 –9; vision

denied in 1945 139; warfare 146–9; why

Germany lost 149–53

Wounded Knee 53

Wylie, J.C. 172

Yamamoto, I. 172, 176

Yamashita, T. 17 8

Yeltsin, B. 206

Young Plan 102

Yugoslavian Succession, Wars of 223, 224,

225–7, 229–31

Ypres 8 6, 8 9, 94

zone of stability 276

Zuber, T. 86

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