Table of Contents
List of maps xi
List of boxes and tables xii
Preface xiii
Introduction: strategic history 1
Themes and contexts of strategic history 4
Introduction: a binding framework 4
Themes 5
Contexts 9
Conclusion 13
Carl von Clausewitz and the theory of war 15
Introduction: theory for all seasons 15
Strategic ideas and strategic behaviour 16
Jomini and Clausewitz 19
Conclusion 27
From limited war to national war: the French Revolution and the Napoleonic way of war 31
Introduction: two transformations 31
Limited war and great war 33
The Revolution and its warfare 37
Napoleon's art of war 39
Problems with the Napoleonic way of war and warfare 44
Political and strategic failure 46
Conclusion 48
The nineteenth century, I: a strategic view 51
Introduction: the reach of strategic history 51
A violent century 52
Implications of the Industrial Revolution: the strategic tale 54
Conclusion 59
The nineteenth century, II: technology, warfare and international order 61
Introduction: Waterloo to the Marne 61
Weapons and warfare 63
Politics and strategic history 69
Conclusion 73
World War I, I: controversies 75
Introduction: the making of the twentieth century 75
A contested history 77
Conclusion 82
World War I, II: modern warfare 85
Introduction: education by experience 85
The course of the war 85
Modern warfare 90
Conclusion 95
The twenty-year armistice, 1919-39 99
Introduction: contrasting decades 99
Versailles and the legacy of the Great War 100
The changing political context: strategic implications 106
Conclusion 112
The mechanization of war 115
Introduction: revolution in military affairs 115
Land warfare 116
Air power 118
Sea power 119
Conclusion 121
World War II in Europe, I: the structure and course of total war 124
Introduction: total war 124
The structure of the war 126
The course of the war 129
Conclusion 140
World War II in Europe, II: understanding the war 143
Introduction: what was the war about? 143
Hitler's war 144
Warfare, 1939-45 146
Why did Germany lose? 149
Conclusion 153
World War II in Asia-Pacific, I: Japan and the politics of empire 157
Introduction: global war 157
The Japanese bid for empire 159
Japan and the United States: the drift to war 162
Conclusion 166
World War II in Asia-Pacific, II: strategy and warfare 168
Introduction: over the cliff 168
Japanese strategy 168
American strategy 172
The end for Japan 178
Conclusion 180
The Cold War, I: politics and ideology 184
Introduction: from war to peace - the consequences of World War II 184
From cold peace to Cold War 188
The Cold War reconsidered 192
Some interim judgements 200
Conclusion 202
The Cold War, II: the nuclear revolution 205
Introduction: the strategic challenge 205
The bomb 206
The nuclear revolution 209
Nuclear strategy 211
The nuclear arms competition 216
Conclusion 217
War and peace after the Cold War: an interwar decade 219
Introduction: the interwar thesis 219
A unipolar world 221
'New wars' and 'old wars': a bloody decade 225
Conclusion 232
9/11 and the age of terror 235
Introduction: the return of a master narrative 235
9/11: World War III? 235
Warfare: from the Industrial Age to the Information Age 240
Conclusion 242
Irregular warfare: guerrillas, insurgents and terrorists 245
Introduction: two kinds of warfare 245
Guerrilla warfare, insurgency and terrorism 246
Irregular warfare: an overview 253
Terrorism and counter-terrorism 256
Al Qaeda and the 'New Terrorism' 259
Conclusion 261
War, peace and international order 264
Introduction: war-peace cycle 264
New world orders 265
Conclusion 275
Conclusion: must future strategic history resemble the past? 280
Glossary 282
Bibliography 285
Index 296
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