Nothing Less than Victory : Decisive Wars and the Lessons of History /
The goal of war is to defeat the enemy's will to fight. But how this can be accomplished is a thorny issue. Nothing Less than Victory provocatively shows that aggressive, strategic military offenses can win wars and establish lasting peace, while defensive maneuvers have often led to prolonged...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2010.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Victory and the moral will to fight
- "To look without flinching": the Greco-Persian wars, 547-446 BC
- "Only one omen is best": the Theban wars, 382-362 BC
- "I will have my opponent": the Second Punic War, 218-201 BC
- "A prince necessary rather than good": the campaigns of Aurelian, AD 270-275
- "The hard hand of war": Sherman's march through the American South, AD 1864-1865
- "The balm for a guilty conscience": British appeasement and the prelude to World War II, AD 1919-1939
- "Gifts from heaven": the American victory over Japan, AD 1945
- The lessons of the victories.