Military strategy : : a global history / / Jeremy Black.

Strategy has existed as long as there has been organised conflict. In this new account, Jeremy Black explores the ever-changing relationship between purpose, force, implementation and effectiveness in military strategy and its dramatic impact on the development of the global power system. Taking a &...

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Place / Publishing House:New Haven ;, London : : Yale University Press,, [2020]
2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (325 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the struggle for power
  • 1. Strategic contexts in the eighteenth century
  • 2. The strategies of continental empires: 1400-1850
  • 3. The reach for world empire: Britain, 1689-1815
  • 4. The rise of Republican strategies: 1775-1800
  • 5. Napoleon and others: 1790-1914
  • 6. The United States in the nineteenth century: 1812-98
  • 7. Europe and the world question: 1816-1913
  • 8. Strategies for World War: 1900-18
  • 9. Strategies for total war: 1919-45
  • 10. Strategies for Cold War: 1945-89
  • 11. Strategies for the current world: 1990-
  • Conclusions.