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

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• Introduction: strategic history Preface xiii


• 1 Themes and contexts of strategic history
  
  
  • Introduction: a binding framework
  
  
  • Themes
  
  
  • Contexts
  
  
  • Conclusion
  
  
  
  


• 2 Carl von Clausewitz and the theory of war
  
  
  • Introduction: theory for all seasons
  
  
  • Strategic ideas and strategic behaviour
  
  
  • Jomini and Clausewitz
  
  
  • Conclusion
  
  
  • Napoleonic way of war 3 From limited war to national war: the French Revolution and the
  
  
  • Introduction: two transformations
  
  
  • Limited war and great war
  
  
  • The Revolution and its warfare
  
  
  • Napoleon’s art of war
  
  
  • Problems with the Napoleonic way of war and warfare
  
  
  • Political and strategic failure
  
  
  • Conclusion
  
  
  
  


• 4 The nineteenth century, I: a strategic view
  
  
  • Introduction: the reach of strategic history
  
  
  • A violent century
    
    
    • Implications of the Industrial Revolution: the strategic tale
    
    
    • Conclusion
    
    
    • order 5 The nineteenth century, II: technology, warfare and international
    
    
    • Introduction: Waterloo to the Marne
    
    
    • Weapons and warfare
    
    
    • Politics and strategic history
    
    
    • Conclusion
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • 6 World War I, I: controversies
    
    
    • Introduction: the making of the twentieth century
    
    
    • A contested history
    
    
    • Conclusion
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • 7 World War I, II: modern warfare
    
    
    • Introduction: education by experience
    
    
    • The course of the war
    
    
    • Modern warfare
    
    
    • Conclusion
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • 8 The twenty-year armistice, 1919–39
    
    
    • Introduction: contrasting decades
    
    
    • Versailles and the legacy of the Great War
    
    
    • The changing political context: strategic implications
    
    
    • Conclusion
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • 9 The mechanization of war
    
    
    • Introduction: revolution in military affairs
    
    
    • Land warfare
    
    
    • Air power
    
    
    • Sea power
    
    
    • Conclusion
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• 10 World War II in Europe, I: the structure and course of total war
  
  
  • Introduction: total war
  
  
  • The structure of the war
  
  
  • The course of the war
  
  
  • Conclusion
  
  
  
  


• 11 World War II in Europe, II: understanding the war
  
  
  • Introduction: what was the war about?
  
  
  • Hitler’s war
  
  
  • Warfare, 1939–45
  
  
  • Why did Germany lose?
  
  
  • Conclusion
  
  
  
  


• 12 World War II in Asia–Pacific, I: Japan and the politics of empire
  
  
  • Introduction: global war
  
  
  • The Japanese bid for empire
  
  
  • Japan and the United States: the drift to war
  
  
  • Conclusion
  
  
  
  


• 13 World War II in Asia–Pacific, II: strategy and warfare
  
  
  • Introduction: over the cliff
  
  
  • Japanese strategy
  
  
  • American strategy
  
  
  • The end for Japan
  
  
  • Conclusion
  
  
  
  


• 14 The Cold War, I: politics and ideology
  
  
  • Introduction: from war to peace – the consequences of World War II
  
  
  • From cold peace to Cold War
  
  
  • The Cold War reconsidered
  
  
  • Some interim judgements
  
  
  • Conclusion
  
  
  
  


• 15 The Cold War, II: the nuclear revolution
  
  
  • Introduction: the strategic challenge
  
  
  • The bomb
  
  
  • The nuclear revolution
  
  
  • Nuclear strategy
  
  
  • The nuclear arms competition
  
  
  • Conclusion
  
  
  
  


• 16 War and peace after the Cold War: an interwar decade
  
  
  • Introduction: the interwar thesis
  
  
  • A unipolar world
  
  
  • ‘New wars’ and ‘old wars’: a bloody decade
  
  
  • Conclusion
  
  
  
  


• 17 9/11 and the age of terror
  
  
  • Introduction: the return of a master narrative
  
  
  • 9/11: World War III?
  
  
  • Warfare: from the Industrial Age to the Information Age
  
  
  • Conclusion
  
  
  
  


• 18 Irregular warfare: guerrillas, insurgents and terrorists
  
  
  • Introduction: two kinds of warfare
  
  
  • Guerrilla warfare, insurgency and terrorism
  
  
  • Irregular warfare: an overview
  
  
  • Terrorism and counter-terrorism
  
  
  • Al Qaeda and the ‘New Terrorism’
  
  
  • Conclusion
  
  
  
  


• 19 War, peace and international order
  
  
  • Introduction: war–peace cycle
  
  
  • New world orders
  
  
  • Conclusion
  
  
  
  


• 20 Conclusion: must future strategic history resemble the past?
  
  
  • Glossary
  
  
  • Bibliography
  
  
  • Index
  
  
  • 3.1 Europe in Maps
  
  
  • 4.1 Europe in
  
  
  • 6.1 Europe in
  
  
  • 8.1 Europe between the wars
  
  
  
  


• 12.1 The Pacific in


• 14.1 Europe after


• 16.1 Europe after the Cold War
  
  
  • 1.1 Themes in strategic history Boxes
  
  
  • 1.2 Contexts of strategic history
  
  
  • 2.1 The principles of war
    
    
    • briefly in On War 2.2 Important subjects deliberately omitted from or treated only
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • 3.1 Tactics, operations and strategy
  
  
  • 3.2 The Napoleonic way of warfare
  
  
  • 4.1 Modern military revolutions
  
  
  • 5.1 The revolution in infantry firepower, 1840–1914
  
  
  • 8.1 Principal features of the Versailles Settlement
  
  
  
  


• 11.1 Hitler’s vision and war aims as revealed in Mein Kampf


• 13.1 Characteristics of war and warfare in Asia–Pacific, 1941–5


• 14.1 The consequences of World War II


• 15.1 The scientific and technological feasibility of atomic weapons


• 15.2 Two kinds of nuclear weapons


• 18.1 Irregular warfare: definition of key terms
  
  
  • 6.1 Casualties in World War I Tables
  
  
  
  


• 10.1 Casualties in World War II


• 15.1 Nuclear stockpiles, 1945–89