Full Description
The Cambridge History of Strategy presents a global history exploring of how leaders of social groups, civilisations, empires and states have practiced strategy over the course of the past three millennia. With contributions from leading experts in each subject, these volumes analyse a series of notable case studies to reflect on the formulation and application of strategy rather than on theory. Transcending the traditional Western focus and modern-state-based framework of strategic studies, this Cambridge History offers the inclusion of a wider range of political actors and cases from parts of the world hitherto largely excluded from the literature. This leads to a discussion of whether central claims in the field of strategic studies that the practice of strategy exhibits universal features that apply always holds up against empirical evidence from different centuries and cases beyond the West.
Contents
Volume 1: Introduction to Volume I: The Practice of Strategy Isabelle Duyvesteyn and Beatrice Heuser; 1. China to 180 CE Peter Lorge; 2. Teispid and Achaemenid Persia (c. 550-330 BCE) John Hyland; 3. Ancient Greece: strategy of the city states (500-400 BCE) Roel Konijnendijk; 4. Philip II and Alexander III and the Macedonian Empire Andrew Fear; 5. Ancient Rome before Augustus (753-27 BCE) Louis Rawlings; 6. China 180-1127 CE David Graff; 7. Ancient Rome: principate and dominate (27 BCE-630 AD) Michael Whitby; 8. The Gupta Empire (400-500 CE) Kaushik Roy; 9. The Sassanian Empire's strategies Katarzyna Maksymiuk; 10. The Rashidun (632-661), Umayyad (661-750) and Abbasid (750-1258) Caliphates Mehdi Kurgan Kader; 11. Byzantine strategy (630-1204 CE) Georgios Chatzelis; 12. Strategies in the wars of western Europe, 476-c. 1000 John France; 13. The later Middle Ages Sophie Therese Ambler; 14. Chinggis Khan and the Mongol Empire 1206-1368 CE Timothy May; 15. Hindu and Buddhist polities of pre/early-modern mainland southeast Asia (1100-1800) Tassapa Umavijani; 16. Pre-Columbian Native American wars Patricia M. Lambert; 17. Ottoman expansionism 1300-1823 Mesut Uyar; 18. Strategy in the wars of pre-colonial Sub-Saharan Africa Giacomo Macola and John Burton Kegel; 19. Strategy/ies of the Mughal Empire Pratyay Nath; 20. China 1368-1911 Kenneth Swope; 21. Early modern Europe: the Habsburgs and their enemies, 1519-1659 David Parrott; 22. Naval strategies Andri van Vliet; 23. The strategy of Louis XIV Jamel Ostwald; 24. Hohenzollern strategy under Frederick II Adam Storring; 25. American warfare in the eighteenth century Stephen Conway; Overview Beatrice Heuser and Isabelle Duyvesteyn; Volume 2: 1. Introduction; 2. The strategies of the Napoleonic Wars Alan Forrest; 3. Guerrilla and nineteenth-century strategies of insurgency Ian Beckett; 4. Russia, 1870-1917 Andrey Pavlov; 5. The American Civil War Donald Stoker; 6. The use of naval power Andrew Lambert; 7. The Russo-Japanese War Rotem Kowner; 8. Chinese strategy 1926-1949 Christopher Yung; 9. First World War Robert Foley; 10. Russia Civil War - till 1945 Nikita Lomagin; 11. Air power Frans Osinga; 12. The Second World War in Europe Guillaume Piketty; 13. The Second World War in the Asia Pacific David Horner; 14. Soviet strategy, 1945-1989 Laurien Crump; 15. People's war and wars of decolonisation Mathilde von Bülow; 16. Nuclear strategies Jeffrey Michaels; 17. America's way of war Antulio Echevarria; 18. The Korean war Xiaobing Li; 19. Israel's wars Eitan Shamir and Eado Hecht; 20. The India-Pakistan confrontations Sumit Ganguly; 21. The Yugoslav Wars, 1991-1999 James Gow; 22. Terrorism and insurgency Colin Clarke; 23. The Forty Year War in Afghanistan Jan Angstrom; 24. The three Gulf wars and Iraq Ahmed Hashim; 25. China's wars, 1950-2021 Christopher Yung; 26. Conclusion Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Beatrice Heuser and Samuel Zilincik.
