Full Description
The second edition of Strategic Studies: A Reader brings together key essays on strategic theory by some of the leading contributors to the field. This revised volume contains several new essays and updated introductions to each section.
The volume comprises hard-to-find classics in the field as well as the latest scholarship. The aim is to provide students with a wide-ranging survey of the key issues in strategic studies, and to provide an introduction to the main ideas and themes in the field. The book contains six extensive sections, each of which is prefaced by a short introductory essay:
The Uses of Strategic Theory
Interpretation of the Classics
Instruments of War, Intelligence and Deception
Nuclear Strategy
Irregular Warfare and Small Wars
Future Warfare, Future Strategy
Overall, this volume strikes a balance between theoretical works, which seek to discover generalisations about the nature of modern strategy, and case studies, which attempt to ground the study of strategy in the realities of modern war.
This new edition will be essential reading for all students of strategic studies, security studies, military history and war studies, as well as for professional military college students.
Contents
General introduction PART I: The uses of strategic theory Introduction 1. Strategic studies and the problem of power, LAWRENCE FREEDMAN 2. What is a military lesson?, WILLIAM C. FULLER, JR. 3. Why Strategy is Difficult, COLIN S. GRAY PART II: Interpretation of the classics Introduction 4. Who's Afraid of Carl von Clausewitz?: A Guide to the Perplexed, MICHAEL I. HANDEL 5. "The Art of War", SUN TZU 6. Strategy: the indirect approach, BASIL LIDDELL HART 7. Arms and Influence, THOMAS C. SCHELLING PART III: Instruments of war: land, sea, and air power Introduction 8. Some principles of maritime strategy, JULIAN CORBETT 9. Kosovo and the great air power debate, DANIEL L. BYMAN AND MATTHEW C. WAXMAN 10. What's Wrong with the Intelligence Process?, ROBERT JERVIS 11. Deception and Intelligence Failure: Anglo-German Preparations for U-Boat Warfare in the 1930s, JOSEPH A. MAIOLO PART IV: Nuclear strategy Introduction 12. The absolute weapon, BERNARD BRODIE 13, The delicate balance of terror, ALBERT WOHLSTETTER 14. Attacking the Atom: Does Bombing Nuclear Facilities Affect Proliferation?, SARAH KREPS AND MATTHEW FUHRMANN PART V: Irregular warfare and small wars Introduction 15. Science of guerrilla warfare, T.E. LAWRENCE 16. Problems of strategy in China's civil war, MAO TSE TUNG 17. Strategic Terrorism: The Framework and its Fallacies, MICHAEL SMITH AND PETER NEUMANN 18. Hybrid Warfare and Challenges, FRANK G. HOFFMAN PART VI: Future warfare, future strategy Introduction 19. Weapons: The Growth and Spread of the Precision-Strike Regime, THOMAS G. MAHNKEN 20. The Revolution in Military Affairs with Chinese Characteristics, JACQUELINE NEWMYER 21. Iron Cannot Fight: The Role of Technology in Current Russian Military Theory, TOR BUKKVOLL 22. From Kadesh to Kandahar: military theory and the future of war, MICHAEL EVANS 23. Cyber War Will Not Take Place, THOMAS RID 24. The lost meaning of strategy HEW STRACHAN
