Full Description
Volume II of The Cambridge History of Strategy focuses on the practice of strategy from 1800 to the present day. A team of eminent scholars examine how leaders of states, empires and non-state groups (such as guerrilla forces, rebel groups and terrorists) have attempted to practise strategy in the modern period. With a focus on the actual 'doing' of strategy, the volume aims to understand real-world experiences when ideas about conflict are carried out against a responding and proactive opponent. The case studies and material presented in the volume form an invitation to rethink dominant perspectives in the field of strategic studies. As the case studies demonstrate, strategy is most often not a stylised, premeditated and wilful phenomenon. Rather, it is a product of circumstance and opportunity, both structural and agential, leading to a view of strategy as an ad hoc, if not chaotic, enterprise.
Contents
Introduction to Volume II: The practice of strategy Isabelle Duyvesteyn and Beatrice Heuser; 1. The strategies of the Napoleonic Wars Alan Forrest; 2. Guerrilla and nineteenth-century strategies of insurgency Ian Beckett; 3. Russia, 1870-1917 Andrey Pavlov; 4. The American Civil War Donald Stoker; 5. The use of naval power Andrew Lambert; 6. The Russo-Japanese War Rotem Kowner; 7. Chinese strategy 1926-1949 Christopher Yung; 8. First World War Robert Foley; 9. Soviet strategy, 1917-1945 Nikita Lomagin; 10. Air power Frans Osinga; 11. The Second World War in Europe Guillaume Piketty; 12. The Second World War in the Asia-Pacific David Horner; 13. Soviet strategy, 1945-1989 Laurien Crump; 14. People's war and wars of decolonisation Mathilde von Bülow; 15. Nuclear strategies Jeffrey H. Michaels; 16. America's way of war Antulio J. Echevarria II; 17. The Korean War Xiaobing Li; 18. Israel's wars Eitan Shamir and Eado Hecht; 19. The India-Pakistan confrontations Sumit Ganguly; 20. The Yugoslav War, 1991-1999 James Gow; 21. Terrorism and insurgency Colin P. Clarke; 22. The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan Jan Angstrom; 23. The three Gulf wars and Iraq Ahmed S. Hashim; 24. China's wars, 1950-2021 Christopher Yung; Conclusion Isabelle Duyvesteyn and Samuel Zilincik.
