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Victory in War : Foundations of Modern Strategy.
This book explores the historical origins of victory.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; Central questions; THE STATE OF THE ART ON VICTORY; TOWARD SYSTEMATIC THINKING ON VICTORY; ORGANIZATION OF THE BOOK AND AREAS OF FUTURE RESEARCH; CHANGES TO THE PREVIOUS EDITION; 2 Toward a General Theory of Victory; IMPRECISE LANGUAGE OF VICTORY; Scholarly Definitions of Victory; INCOMPLETE THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF VICTORY; BUILDING A THEORETICAL NARRATIVE OF VICTORY; Building a Typology of Victory; Tactical Victory; Strategic Victory; Grand Strategic Victory; Challenges to Building Victory Taxonomy.
- Organizing Principle: Change in the Status QuoOrganizing Principle: Mobilization for War; Organizing Principle: Postconflict Obligations; IMPLICATIONS; 3 Historical Origins of Victory; ANCIENT STRATEGISTS; Sun Tzu; Strategists from Ancient Greece: Thucydides, Plato, and Polybius; Roman Strategists: Titus Livius (Livy) and Flavius Vegetius Renatus; SIXTEENTH- TO EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STRATEGISTS; Niccolò Machiavelli; Raimondo Montecuccoli; Sébastien le Prestre de Vauban and Maurice de Saxe; Frederick II of Prussia; Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte, comte de Guibert; and Adam Heinrich Dietrich von Bülow.
- NINETEENTH-CENTURY STRATEGISTSNapoléon Bonaparte; Antoine-Henri Jomini; Carl von Clausewitz; MID-NINETEENTH- TO EARLY-TWENTIETH-CENTURY STRATEGISTS; Adam Smith and Friedrich List; Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels; Helmuth von Moltke, Friedrich Wilhelm Rüstow, Victor-Bernard Derrecagaix, and G.F.R. Henderson; Alfred von Schlieffen; Ferdinand Foch; Louis-Hubert Lyautey; Hans Delbrück; Friedrich von Bernhardi; IMPLICATIONS; 4 Modern Origins of Victory; TOTAL WAR AND VICTORY; Jean Colin, Erich Ludendorff, and Karl Haushofer; REVOLUTIONARY IDEOLOGIES AND VICTORY.
- Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Josef StalinMao Tse-tung; ARMORED WARFARE AND VICTORY; J.F.C. Fuller; B.H. Liddell Hart; André Maginot; Erich von Manstein and Heinz Guderian; Mikhail Tukhachevsky; MARITIME WARFARE AND VICTORY; Alfred Thayer Mahan and Julian Corbett; Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz and Admiral Raoul Castex; AIR WARFARE AND VICTORY; Giulio Douhet; General William "Billy" Mitchell; Alexander P. de Seversky; COLD WAR AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS; Bernard Brodie, Paul Kecskemeti, and Raymond Aron; Vasily D. Sokolovskii and Henry Kissinger; VICTORY ALTERED; IMPLICATIONS.
- 5 American Experience with VictoryEXISTENTIAL STRATEGIC VICTORIES: EIGHTEENTH- AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY WARS; War of American Independence (Revolutionary War); War of 1812; American Civil War; TOTAL STRATEGIC VICTORY: WORLD WAR I; GRAND STRATEGIC VICTORY: WORLD WAR II; LIMITED STRATEGIC VICTORY (AND DEFEAT): THE KOREAN WAR AND THE VIETNAMWAR; Korean War; Vietnam War; FORTUITOUS GRAND STRATEGIC VICTORY WITHOUT WAR: THE COLD WAR; IMPLICATIONS; 6 American Logic of Victory; UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER: VICTORY AS ASPIRATION AND OUTCOME.