century 6 8 , 70–1; secret Reinsurance
Treaty with Germany 72; Tsushima 69,
160; war with Poland 100; World War I
79, 8 6, 88 ; see alsoSoviet Union
Rwanda 231, 232
Ryuku Islands 160
Saar, the 101
Saddam Hussein 222, 23 8
Saipan 175, 177, 1 81
sanctuaries, denial of 253
Scharnhorst, G. von 1 8
Schlieffen-Moltke Plan 79, 8 1, 8 2, 8 5–6,
95–6, 2 84
Schlieffen Plan 8 6, 2 84
Schroeder, P.W. 31, 51
Schwarzkopf, N. 241
sea power 2 8 ; mechanization of war 119–21;
Napoleon 45–6; nineteenth century 67–9;
World War I 88 , 94–5; World War II 137,
148 ; World War II in Asia-Pacific 171–2,
172–3, 174–5, 176–7
security 20, 21; collective seecollective
security
Seeckt, H. von 117
Serbia 229, 230, 231
Sheffield, G. 75
Shenandoah Valley 64
Sheridan, P.S. 64
Sherman, W.T. 64
short-war illusion 7 8 , 8 1–2
Showalter, D.E. 106
siege warfare 91
Sierra Leone 231, 232
simplicity 20, 21
Singer, M. 276
skirmishers 43
Slim, W.J. 179
smart conventional weapons 215–16
Smith, R. 27, 219, 226, 22 8 , 242
smokeless powder 66
society: dependence of war on 8 , 155;
nineteenth century warfare 64–5
socio-cultural context 10–11
soldiers: efficiency of German soldiers in
World War II 14 8 –9; eighteenth-century
warfare 36; misbehaviour of Napoleonic
army in other countries 46; peasants as
57; relationship with politicians 7– 8 , 154
Solidarity 200
Somalia 224, 225
Somme, the 88
sonar 119–20
South Africa 231
Soviet Union: Cold War seeCold War;
collapse of 19 8 –200, 201, 222; failures
and Cold War 202–3; German pact with
128 , 129; Hitler’s decision to invade
Russia 153; interwar period 100, 104,
105, 10 8 ; invasion of Finland 130;
Japan’s neutrality pact with 165, 16 8 –9;
mechanization of war 117–1 8 ; 1990s 222;
World War II 12 8 –9, 131–4, 135, 136,
136–7, 13 8 , 159; see alsoRussia
Spain 46, 121; resistance to French
occupation 246
Spanish influenza 105
Spanish Succession, War of 33
special forces 246, 2 84
Speer, A. 20 8
Spruance, R.A. 177
Srebrenica massacre 231
stability 213–14, 2 8 4; zone of 276
Stalin, J. 3 8 , 39, 133, 135, 146, 154; Cold
War 1 8 6, 1 8 9–91, 192, 193, 203; purge of
officer corps 11 8
Stalingrad, Battle of 127, 135
stand-alone terrorism 256–7
Standage, T. 59
state: decline in authority due to
globalization 261; invention and rise of
55; terrorists’ achievement of state power
258 ; Versailles Settlement and new states
104, 105; war and making and unmaking
of states 2
steam power 54
steamships 5 8
Strachan, H. 79, 8 2, 94
Strassmann, F. 20 8
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)
196, 197, 215, 2 84
strategic behaviour 16–19
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) 215
strategic history 1–3, 4–14, 2 8 4; contexts 2,
4, 9–12, 13, 2 8 1; opposing views 264–5;
themes 4, 5–9, 13, 2 81
strategic ideas 16–19, 27
strategy: defining 1, 2 8 4; tactics, operations
and 40
strategy deficit 6, 149–53304 Index