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Strategy and History


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This new series will focus on the theory and practice of strategy. Following Clausewitz, strategy has been understood to mean the use made of force, and the threat of the use of force, for the ends of policy. This series is as interested in ideas as in historical cases of grand strategy and military strategy in action. All historical periods, near and past, and even future, are of interest. In addition to original monographs, the series will from time to time publish edited reprints of neglected classics as well as collections of essays.

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Britain and Ballistic Missile Defence, 1942-2002

Britain and Ballistic Missile Defence, 1942-2002

1st Edition

By Jeremy Stocker
June 14, 2017

Britain was the first country to come under sustained ballistic missile attack, during 1944-45. Defence against ballistic missiles has been a persistent, if highly variable, subject of political policy and technical investigation ever since. The British Second World War experience of trying to ...

Strategic Basing and the Great Powers, 1200-2000

Strategic Basing and the Great Powers, 1200-2000

1st Edition

By Robert E. Harkavy
February 29, 2016

This is the first book to survey the evolution of the strategic basing systems of the great powers, covering an 800-year span of history, from the Mongol dynasty to the era of the US empire. Robert E. Harkavy details the progression of strategic basing systems and power projection, from its ...

Military Logistics and Strategic Performance

Military Logistics and Strategic Performance

1st Edition

By Thomas M. Kane
November 24, 2015

This work argues that logistics in warfare is crucial to achieving strategic success. The author identifies logistical capabilities as an arbiter of opportunity, which plays a critical role in determining which side will hold the strategic iniative in war. Armies which have secured reliable ...

America, Technology and Strategic Culture A Clausewitzian Assessment

America, Technology and Strategic Culture: A Clausewitzian Assessment

1st Edition

By Brice Harris
April 09, 2015

This book analyses the American way of war within the context of Clausewitzian theory. In doing so, it draws conclusions about the origins, viability, and technical feasibility of America’s current strategic approach. The author argues that the situation in which America has found itself in Iraq ...

Anglo-American Strategic Relations and the Far East, 1933-1939 Imperial Crossroads

Anglo-American Strategic Relations and the Far East, 1933-1939: Imperial Crossroads

1st Edition

By Greg Kennedy
July 17, 2014

This volume charts how the national strategic needs of the United States of America and Great Britain created a "parallel but not joint" relationship towards the Far East as the crisis in that region evolved from 1933-39. In short, it is a look at the relationship shared between the two nations ...

Grand Strategy and the Presidency Foreign Policy, War and the American Role in the World

Grand Strategy and the Presidency: Foreign Policy, War and the American Role in the World

1st Edition

By C. Dale Walton
October 03, 2013

This book examines the role and importance of the Presidency in the formulation and conduct of US grand strategy. The text discusses US strategic history, with particular emphasis on the period from the end of the Cold War to the present day. While the United States periodically has enjoyed ...

The Myth of Inevitable US Defeat in Vietnam

The Myth of Inevitable US Defeat in Vietnam

1st Edition

By Dale Walton
January 01, 2002

This book offers a dispassionate strategic examination of the Vietnam conflict that challenges the conventional wisdom that South Vietnam could not survive as an independent non-communist entity over the long term regardless of how the United States conducted its military- political effort in ...

German Disarmament After World War I The Diplomacy of International Arms Inspection 1920-1931

German Disarmament After World War I: The Diplomacy of International Arms Inspection 1920-1931

1st Edition

By Richard J. Shuster
September 10, 2012

German Disarmament After World War I examines the Allied disarmament of Germany and the challenges that such an enormous task presented to international efforts in enforcing the Treaty of Versailles. In the twenty-first century, disarmament remains a critical issue for the International community. ...

US Special Forces and Counterinsurgency in Vietnam Military Innovation and Institutional Failure, 1961-63

US Special Forces and Counterinsurgency in Vietnam: Military Innovation and Institutional Failure, 1961-63

1st Edition

By Christopher K. Ives
July 11, 2012

This volume examines US Army Special Forces efforts to mobilize and train indigenous minorities in Vietnam. Christopher K. Ives shows how before the Second Indochina War, the Republic of Vietnam had begun to falter under the burden of an increasingly successful insurgency. The dominant American ...

US Military Innovation since the Cold War Creation Without Destruction

US Military Innovation since the Cold War: Creation Without Destruction

1st Edition

Edited By Harvey Sapolsky, Benjamin Friedman, Brendan Green
March 29, 2012

This book explains how the US military reacted to the 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA), and failed to innovate its organization or doctrine to match the technological breakthroughs it brought about. Many called for the transformation of the US military in the years after the end of the Cold ...

Clausewitz and America Strategic Thought and Practice from Vietnam to Iraq

Clausewitz and America: Strategic Thought and Practice from Vietnam to Iraq

1st Edition

By Stuart Kinross
December 21, 2009

This book demonstrates how Clausewitzian thought influenced American strategic thinking between the Vietnam War and the current conflict in Iraq. Carl von Clausewitz's thought played a part in the process of military reform and the transition in US policy that took place after the Vietnam War. By ...

Alexander the Great: Lessons in Strategy

Alexander the Great: Lessons in Strategy

1st Edition

By David J. Lonsdale
June 29, 2009

This book offers a strategic analysis of one of the most outstanding military careers in history, identifying the most pertinent strategic lessons from the campaigns of Alexander the Great. David Lonsdale argues that since the core principles of strategy are eternal, the study and analysis of ...

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