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

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Streseman, G. 106–7, 144
subjective nature of war 24
submarines 88 , 119–20, 137
suicide bombers 260
Sun-tzu 21–2, 2 81
surprise 20, 21


tactical crisis 65, 8 1, 95
tactics 40, 2 8 4; Napoleon 41–2
Taiping Rebellion 53–4
Taliban 236–7, 239
tanks 92–3, 116–1 8 , 146
Tannenberg 86
taxation 36–7
Taylor, A.J.P. 7 8
technology 2 8 ; Industrial Revolution 51,
54–9, 61; information revolution 56,
240–2; technological context 11;
see alsomechanization of war
telegraph 5 8 –9
Terraine, J. 54
territorial expansion: Germany and World
War II 126, 127, 144; Japan 16 8 –70
territorial loss 101, 104
terrorism 8 , 235–44, 2 8 4; al Qaeda and the
‘new terrorism’ 256, 259–61; and
counter-terrorism 256– 8 ; guerrilla
warfare, insurgency and 246–53;
information age and ‘war on terror’
240–2; 9/11 219, 235–40, 256, 274–5;
reasons for end of terrorist movements
258 ; see alsoirregular warfare
themes of strategic history 4, 5–9, 13, 2 81
theory of war and strategy 15–30
thermonuclear weapons 209–10, 2 8 3; see
alsonuclear weapons
Third World proxies 194–5
Thucydides 2, 25, 79, 276
time 253
Tito, J.B. 229
Tojo Hideki 16 8 , 1 81
total war 57, 63, 2 8 4; World War II 124–6
Trafalgar, Battle of 34
transformation of war 227– 8
trinity, Clausewitzian 24–5, 90, 227
Trinquier, R. 253
Tripartite Pact 1940 159
Triple Alliance of 1 8 79 72
Truman Doctrine 192
Tsushima, Battle of 69, 160


Tucker, S.C. 5, 103, 133
Tudjman, F. 229
Tunisia 137
Turkey 87
Tutsis 232
‘Twenty-one Demands’ 161

Ulbricht, W. 194
unconditional surrender 146
unemployed young men 37
unipolar world 221–4
United Nations (UN) 5, 1 8 7, 226, 269,
271–2, 273, 277; authorization of use
of force 23 8 ; Security Council 271, 272;
UNPROFOR 225–6, 230, 231; USA and
hegemonic order 274
United States of America (USA) 51, 52, 10 8 ,
18 7; Britain and logistics of World War II
131; Cold War seeCold War; Gulf Wars
57, 222, 227, 22 8 –9, 23 8 –9; ‘Germany
First’ policy 134–5, 173, 174; hegemonic
order 274–5; Hitler’s declaration of war
on 127, 134–5, 153; intervention in
Somalia 224, 225; Japanese–US relations
and drift to war 162–6; Marshall Plan 1 8 9,
191, 192; nation at war 219; 9/11 219,
235–40, 256, 274–5; post-Cold War
decade 221–4, 273–4; ‘Two-Ocean’ Navy
Act 1940 176; US Army Field Manual
FM3-0, Operations20, 21; war loans
from 102; War Powers Act 1973 197;
warfare in the information age 240–2;
World War I 88 , 8 9; World War II in
Asia-PacificseeAsia-Pacific, World War
II in; see alsoAmerican Civil War,
American Revolution
unity of command 20, 21
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1 88
UNPROFOR 225–6, 230, 231
uranium 20 8
urbanization 57

Valmy, Battle of 37– 8
Van Creveld, M. 44, 227
Van Evera, S. 11
Verdun 87
Verona, Congress of 70
Versailles Settlement 100–6, 107, 161,
268 –71; Article 231 101; death of
109–10, 144

Index 305
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