The Evolution of Strategy - Thinking War from Antiquity to the Present (Hardcover)

Is there a Western way of war' which pursues battles of annihilation and single-minded military victory? Is warfare on a path to ever greater destructive force? This magisterial new account answers these questions by tracing the history of Western thinking about strategy the employment of military force as a political instrument from antiquity to the present day. Assessing sources from Vegetius to contemporary America, and with a particular focus on strategy since the Napoleonic Wars, Beatrice Heuser explores the evolution of strategic thought, the social institutions, norms and patterns of behaviour within which it operates, the policies that guide it and the cultures that influence it. Ranging across technology and warfare, total warfare and small wars as well as land, sea, air and nuclear warfare, she demonstrates that warfare and strategic thinking have fluctuated wildly in their aims, intensity, limitations and excesses over the past two millennia."

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2010
First published:	October 2010
Authors:	Beatrice Heuser
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	594
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-19968-1
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Defence strategy, planning & research > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history Promotions
LSN:	0-521-19968-9
Barcode:	9780521199681

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