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• Paret, Peter

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MAKERS OF MODERN STRATEGY: FROM MACHIAVELLI TO THE NUCLEAR AGE

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• Princeton, NJ: Princeton U Press, 1986. vii+941 pp, 1986, p.vii+941-vii+941

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1986

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• In this "sequel" to Makers of Modern Strategy (Princeton U Press, 1943) 3 of the original essays have been retained, 4 revised or rewritten, & 22 new ones added. Critical examinations of the most prominent modern military strategists are combined with analyses of particular periods & trends in V PARTS, with 28 Chpts, with an Introduction by the editor. Extensive bibliographical notes are provided for each Chpt. PART I - THE ORIGINS OF MODERN WAR - includes (1) Felix Gilbert -- Machiavelli: The Renaissance of the Art of War; (2) Gunther E. Rothenberg -- Maurice of Nassau, Gustavus Adolphus, Raimondo Montecuccoli, and the "Military Revolution" of the Seventeenth Century; (3) Henry Guerlac -- Vauban: The Impact of Science on War -- focuses on a pioneer in the development of fortification strategy; & (4) R. R. Palmer -- Frederick the Great, Guibert, Bulow: From Dynastic to National War. PART II - THE EXPANSION OF WAR - contains (5) Peter Paret -- Napoleon and the Revolution in War -- suggests that Napoleon's spectacular but temporary successes may have led to an overestimation of his long-term contribution to strategy; (6) John Shy -- Jomini; & (7) Peter Paret -- Clausewitz -- considers Carl von Clausewitz to be the first objective military theorist, but questions whether his influence was as great as is popularly believed, & attempts to clarify some misconceptions of his theories. PART III - FROM THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION TO THE FIRST WORLD WAR - includes (8) Edward Mead Earle -- Adam Smith, Alexander Hamilton, Friedrich List: The Economic Foundations of Military Power -- depicts the growth of the perception of trade, industry, & communications as support for & object of protection by the military; (9) Sigmund Neumann & Mark von Hagen -- Engels and Marx on Revolution, War, and the Army in Society -- focuses on the insights of Friedrich Engels with regard to changing strategic trends; (10) Hajo Holborn -- The Prusso-German School: Moltke and the Rise of the General Staff; (11) Gunther E. Rothenberg -- Moltke, Schlieffen, and the Doctrine of Strategic Envelopment; (12) Gordon A. Craig -- Delbruck: The Military Historian -- examines the theories of Hans Delbruck, founder of scientific military history, & his role as analyst in WWI; (13) Walter Pintner -- Russian Military Thought: The Western Model and the Shadow of Suvorov -- describes the nineteenth-century search for a "Russian art of war" & the origins of Russian strategy in WWI; (14) Douglas Porch -- Bugeaud, Gallieni, Lyautey: The Development of French Colonial Warfare -- analyzes the failure of French military policy in Indochina & Africa; (15) Russell F. Weigley -- American Strategy from Its Beginnings through the First World War -- focuses on the American Revolution, in which George Washington closely followed the European model of fighting, & the Civil War, which, being the first war where both sides possessed modern rifles, marked a strategic watershed. Prominent theorists at the US Military Academy are discussed; & (16) Philip A. Crowl -- Alfred Thayer Mahan: The Naval Historian. PART IV - FROM THE FIRST TO THE SECOND WORLD WAR - contains (17) Gordon A. Craig -- The Political Leader as Strategist -- analyzes the consequences of the control of military strategy action by the heads of state of GB, France, Germany, & the US during WWI & WWII; (18) Michael Howard -- Men against Fire: The Doctrine of the Offensive in 1914 -- examines the reasons for the general strategic failure of WWI, where outmoded offensive strategy, combined with new weapons technology, produced catastrophic losses; (19) Michael Geyer -- German Strategy in the Age of Machine Warfare, 1914-1945; (20) Brian Bond & Martin Alexander -- Liddell Hart and De Gaulle: The Doctrines of Limited Liability and Mobile Defense; (21) David MacIsaac -- Voices from the Central Blue: The Air Power Theorists; (22) Condoleezza Rice -- The Making of Soviet Strategy -- emphasizes the role of Joseph Stalin & his untimely purges of military leadership; (23) Maurice Matloff -- Allied Strategy in Europe, 1939-1945 -- focuses on the difficulty of coordinating the aims & interests of the US, GB, & the USSR, & the strategic consequences; & (24) D. Clayton James -- American and Japanese Strategies in the Pacific War. PART V - SINCE 1945 - includes (25) Lawrence Freedman -- The First Two Generations of Nuclear Strategists -- surveys the development of US nuclear strategy from WWII to the present; (26) Michael Carver -- Conventional Warfare in the Nuclear Age -- discusses the role played by conventional warfare in US & Soviet strategy since WWII, & reviews strategies employed in conflicts in the Middle East, India, & the Falklands/Malvinas war; (27) John Shy & Thomas W. Collier -- Revolutionary War -- emphasizes the role of Mao Tse-tung in developing modern insurgent strategy; & (28) Gordon A. Craig & Felix Gilbert -- Reflections on Strategy in the Present and Future -- argues that nuclear forces based on hairtrigger methodologies of implementation do not render useless the study of past strategic problems, especially regarding the importance of making military power subservient to political control. Bibliographic notes are provided for each Chpt.