Contents
1. List of maps
2. List of boxes and tables
3. Preface
4. Introduction: strategic history
1. CHƯƠNG 1: Themes and contexts of strategic history
1.1. Introduction: a binding framework
1.2. Themes
1.3. Contexts
1.4. Conclusion
2. CHƯƠNG 2: Carl von Clausewitz and the theory of war
2.1. Introduction: theory for all seasons
2.2. Strategic ideas and strategic behaviour
2.3. Jomini and Clausewitz
2.4. Conclusion
3. CHƯƠNG 3: From limited war to national war: the French Revolution and the Napoleonic way of war
3.1. Introduction: two transformations
3.2. Limited war and great war
3.3. The Revolution and its warfare
3.4. Napoleon’s art of war
3.5. Problems with the Napoleonic way of war and warfare
3.6. Political and strategic failure
3.7. Conclusion
4. CHƯƠNG 4: The nineteenth century, I: a strategic view
4.1. Introduction: the reach of strategic history
4.2. A violent century
4.3. Implications of the Industrial Revolution: the strategic tale
4.4. Conclusion
5. CHƯƠNG 5: The nineteenth century, II: technology, warfare and international order
5.1. Introduction: Waterloo to the Marne
5.2. Weapons and warfare
5.3. Politics and strategic history
5.4. Conclusion
6. CHƯƠNG 6: World War I, I: controversies
6.1. Introduction: the making of the twentieth century
6.2. A contested history
6.3. Conclusion
7. CHƯƠNG 7: World War I, II: modern warfare
7.1. Introduction: education by experience
7.2. The course of the war
7.3. Modern warfare
7.4. Conclusion
8. CHƯƠNG 8: The twenty-year armistice, 1919–39
8.1. Introduction: contrasting decades
8.2. Versailles and the legacy of the Great War
8.3. The changing political context: strategic implications
8.4. Conclusion
9. CHƯƠNG 9: The mechanization of war
9.1. Introduction: revolution in military affairs
9.2. Land warfare
9.3. Air power
9.4. Sea power
9.5. Conclusion
10. CHƯƠNG 10: World War II in Europe, I: the structure and course of total war
10.1. Introduction: total war
10.2. The structure of the war
10.3. The course of the war
10.4. Conclusion
11. CHƯƠNG 11: World War II in Europe, II: understanding the war
11.1. Introduction: what was the war about?
11.2. Hitler’s war
11.3. Warfare, 1939–45
11.4. Why did Germany lose?
11.5. Conclusion
12. CHƯƠNG 12: World War II in Asia–Pacific, I: Japan and the politics of empire
12.1. Introduction: global war
12.2. The Japanese bid for empire
12.3. Japan and the United States: the drift to war
12.4. Conclusion
13. CHƯƠNG 13: World War II in Asia–Pacific, II: strategy and warfare
13.1. Introduction: over the cliff
13.2. Japanese strategy
13.3. American strategy
13.4. The end for Japan
13.5. Conclusion
14. CHƯƠNG 14: The Cold War, I: politics and ideology
14.1. Introduction: from war to peace – the consequences of World War II
14.2. From cold peace to Cold War
14.3. The Cold War reconsidered
14.4. Some interim judgements
14.5. Conclusion
15. CHƯƠNG 15: The Cold War, II: the nuclear revolution
15.1. Introduction: the strategic challenge
15.2. The bomb
15.3. The nuclear revolution
15.4. Nuclear strategy
15.5. The nuclear arms competition
15.6. Conclusion
16. CHƯƠNG 16: War and peace after the Cold War: an interwar decade
16.1. Introduction: the interwar thesis
16.2. A unipolar world
16.3. ‘New wars’ and ‘old wars’: a bloody decade
16.4. Conclusion
17. CHƯƠNG 17: 9/11 and the age of terror
17.1. Introduction: the return of a master narrative
17.2. 9/11: World War III?
17.3. Warfare: from the Industrial Age to the Information Age
17.4. Conclusion
18. CHƯƠNG 18: Irregular warfare: guerrillas, insurgents and terrorists
18.1. Introduction: two kinds of warfare
18.2. Guerrilla warfare, insurgency and terrorism
18.3. Irregular warfare: an overview
18.4. Terrorism and counter-terrorism
18.5. Al Qaeda and the ‘New Terrorism’
18.6. Conclusion
19. CHƯƠNG 19: War, peace and international order
19.1. Introduction: war–peace cycle
19.2. New world orders
19.3. Conclusion
20. CHƯƠNG 20: Conclusion: must future strategic history resemble the past?
Glossary
Bibliography
Index