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The evolution of strategy : thinking war from antiquity to the present
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The evolution of strategy : thinking war from antiquity to the present

Beatrice Heuser

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What is strategy?
Warfare and mindsets from antiquity to the Middle Ages
Warfare and mindsets in early modern Europe
Themes in early thinking about strategy
The age and mindset of the Napoleonic paradigm
The Napoleonic paradigm transformed: from total mobilisation to total war
Challenges to the Napoleonic paradigm versus the culmination of total war
Long-term trends and early maritime strategy
The age of steam to the First World War
The World Wars and their lessons for maritime strategists
Maritime strategy in the nuclear age
War in the third dimension
Four schools of air power
Nuclear strategy
From partisan war to people's war
Counterinsurgency
Wars without victories, victories without peace
No end of history: the dialectic continues
Epilogue: strategy-making versus bureaucratic politics.

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The evolution of strategy : thinking war from antiquity to the present by Beatrice Heuser. ISBN 9780521155243. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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