The new makers of modern strategy : from the ancient world to the digital age / edited by Hal Brands.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brands, Hal, 1983- editor.

Bew, John, contributor.

Freedman, Lawrence, contributor.

Mead, Walter Russell, contributor.

Yoshihara, Toshi, contributor.

Kroenig, Matthew, contributor.

Strachan, Hew, contributor.

Echevarria, Antulio J., II, 1959- contributor.

Maurer, John H., contributor.

Morgan, Michael Cotey, contributor.

Standardized Title:

Makers of modern strategy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Strategy.

Military art and science.

Military history, Modern.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

xxii, 1158 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2023]

Summary:

"First published by Princeton in 1943, the collection of essays that constituted Makers of Modern Strategy has largely held the field as the key book that studied the means and ends of military power and thought, and the historical figures that shaped that history. The books, in two editions, have long been a staple of Princeton's backlist in international politics and strategic studies. The first edition, edited by Edward Mead Earle and subtitled Military Thought from Machiavelli to Hitler, emerged out of a seminar of foreign policy and security experts organized between Princeton and the Institute of Advanced Study in reaction to World War II as a global conflict. The subsequent edition, edited by Peter Paret, then at Stanford University, was prepared in the early 1980s and subtitled From Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age. In that edition, three essays were reprinted from the earlier book, four others were revised, and the remainder-twenty-two essays-were wholly new, to reflect the updates in the field and also how the global political context had changed. The two books together are regarded as the founding and leading text in military and strategic studies, containing influential essays by many of the best-known scholars of the subject. The ambition of the new volume is to commission an entirely new edition of this classic reference work, with 37 chapters organized into 5 sections covering key military leaders and the most important elements of strategic thinking since Thucydides and Sun Tzu. The field of strategic and military history has witnessed an intellectual renaissance in recent decades, as the number of strategic challenges faced by the world has grown enormously. International politics has also changed. The Cold War ended and the Soviet Union disappeared. The United States entered a period of unipolarity, only to see it challenged by the rise of new powers, China in particular. Terrorism, civil wars, so-called "rogue states," insurgency and counter-insurgency, and cybersecurity all joined a growing list of strategic concerns. New technologies promise to upend our understanding of conflict. Furthermore, scholars have learned more about earlier periods, from the classic thinkers of strategy to the struggles of great power war to the dynamics of world politics during the Cold War. Finally, scholarship on international politics, war, and peace in the 20th century and after has become increasingly internationalized, with the opening of new archives and the incorporation of new perspectives. The aim of this volume is to serve as an overview and stimulant to research in this field, one that encompasses the broader definitions of strategy in current research, reflects the current state of world politics, and also takes a more global and less Western perspective"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Introduction : The indispensable art : three generations of makers of modern strategy / Hal Brands

Part One : Foundations and founders

1. Strategy : the history of an idea / Lawrence Freedman

2. Thucydides, Polybius, and the legacies of the ancient world / Walter Russell Mead

3. Sun Zi and the search for a timeless logic of strategy / Toshi Yoshihara

4. Machiavelli and the naissance of modern strategy / Matthew Kroenig

5. The elusive meaning and enduring relevance of Clausewitz / Hew Strachan

6. Jomini, modern war, and strategy : the triumph of the essential / Antulio J. Echevarria II

7. Alfred Thayer Mahan and the strategy of sea power / John H. Maurer

8. Kant, Paine, and strategies of liberal transformation / Michael Cotey Morgan

9. Alexander Hamilton and the financial sinews of strategy / James Lacey

10. Economic foundations of strategy : beyond Smith, Hamilton, and list / Eric Helleiner and Jonathan Kirshner

Part Two : Strategy in an age of great-power rivalry

11. Sully, Richelieu, and Mazarin : French strategies of equilibrium in the seventeenth century / Iskander Rehman

12. Generational competition in a multipolar world : William III and André-Hercule de Fleury / Matt J. Schumann

13. Napoleon and the strategy of the single point / Michael V. Leggiere

14. John Quincy Adams and the challenges of a democratic strategy / Charles Edel

15. Strategic excellence : Tecumseh and the Shawnee Confederacy / Kori Schake

16. Francis Lieber, the laws of war, and the origins of the Liberal International Order / Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh

17. Japan caught between maritime and continental imperialism / S.C.M. Paine

18. Strategies of anti-imperial resistance : Gandhi, Bhagat Singh, and Fanon / Priya Satia

Part Three : Strategy in an age of global war

19. Strategy, war plans, and the first world war / Margaret MacMillan

20. The strategy of decisive war versus the strategy of attrition / Williamson Murray

21. Strategy and total war / Williamson Murray

22. Woodrow Wilson and the rise of modern American grand strategy / Robert Kagan

23. Democratic leaders and strategies of coalition warfare : Churchill and Roosevelt in World War II / Tami Davis Biddle

24. The hidden hand of history : Toynbee and the search for world order / Andrew Ehrhardt and John Bew

25. Strategies of geopolitical revolution : Hitler and Stalin / Brendan Simms

26. Mao Zedong and strategies of nested war / S.C.M. Paine

Part Four : Strategy in a bipolar era

27. Nuclear strategy in theory and practice : the great divergence / Eric S. Edelman

28. The elusive nature of nuclear strategy / Francis J. Gavin

29. Limited war in the nuclear age : American strategy in Korea / Daniel Marston

30. Ben-Gurion, Nasser, and strategy in the Arab-Israeli Conflict / Guy Laron

31. Nehru and the strategy of of non-alignment / Tanvi Madan

32. Lydnon Johnson and Robert McNamara : theory over history and expertise / Mark Moyar

33. Strategies of détente and competition : Brezhnev and Moscow's Cold War / Sergey Radchenko

34. Arms competition, arms control, and strategies of peacetime competition from Fisher to Reagan / Thomas G. Mahnken

Part five : Strategy in the post-Cold War world

35. Dilemmas of dominance : American strategy from George H. W. Bush to Barack Obama / Christopher J. Griffin

36. The two marshals : Nikolai Ogarkov, Andrew Marshall, and the revolution in military affairs / Dmitry (Dima) Adamsky

37. Strategies of counterinsurgency and counter-terrorism after 9/11 / Carter Malkasian

38. Strategies of jihad : from the Prophet Muhammad to contemporary times / Ahmed S. Hashin

39. Xi Jinping and the strategy of China's restoration / Elizabeth Economy

40. Soleimani, Gerasimov, and strategies of irregular warfare / seth G. Jones

42. The strength of weakness : the Kim Dynasty and North Korea's strategy for survival / Sue Mi Terry

Strategies of persistent conflict : Kabila and the Congo wars / Jason K. Stearns

43. Strategy and grand strategy in new domains / Joshua Rovner

44. A revolution in intelligence

45. Grammar, logic, and grand strategy / John Lewis Gaddis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version : Brands, Hal The New Makers of Modern Strategy

ISBN:

9780691204383

0691204381

OCLC:

1373397193