Military strategy : a global history / Jeremy Black.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Black, Jeremy, 1955- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Strategy--History.

Strategy.

History.

World politics.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 306 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2020]

Biography/History:

Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter, UK. He has published widely in military history, including War and the World and Air Power. His other works include Maps and History and Naval Warfare.

Summary:

Strategy has existed as long as there has been organised conflict. In this new account, Jeremy Black explores the ever-changing relationship between purpose, force, implementation and effectiveness in military strategy and its dramatic impact on the development of the global power system. Taking a 'total' view of strategy, Black looks at leading powers - notably the United States, China, Britain and Russia - in the wider context of their competition and their domestic and international strengths. Ranging from France's Ancien Regime and Britain's empire building to present day conflicts in the Middle East, Black devotes particular attention to the strategic practice and decisions of the Kangxi Emperor, Clausewitz, Napoleon and Hitler.

Contents:

Introduction: the struggle for power

1. Strategic contexts in the eighteenth century

2. The strategies of continental empires: 1400-1850

3. The reach for world empire: Britain, 1689-1815

4. The rise of Republican strategies: 1775-1800

5. Napoleon and others: 1790-1914

6. The United States in the nineteenth century: 1812-98

7. Europe and the world question: 1816-1913

8. Strategies for World War: 1900-18

9. Strategies for total war: 1919-45

10. Strategies for Cold War: 1945-89

11. Strategies for the current world: 1990-

Conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-300) and index.

ISBN:

0300217188

9780300217186

OCLC:

1117625949