Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 War and strategy at the beginning of the twenty-first century
- 2 The meaning of strategy: historical perspectives
- 3 The case for Clausewitz: reading On war today
- 4 Making strategy work: civil–military relations in Britain and the United States
- 5 Strategy and the limitation of war
- 6 European armies and limited war
- 7 The limitations of strategic culture:the case of the British way in warfare
- 8 Maritime strategy and national policy
- 9 Technology and strategy
- 10 War is war: imperial legacies and current conflicts
- 11 Strategy and the operational level of war
- 12 Strategy and contingency
- 13 Strategy: change and continuity
- Notes
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 War and strategy at the beginning of the twenty-first century
- 2 The meaning of strategy: historical perspectives
- 3 The case for Clausewitz: reading On war today
- 4 Making strategy work: civil–military relations in Britain and the United States
- 5 Strategy and the limitation of war
- 6 European armies and limited war
- 7 The limitations of strategic culture:the case of the British way in warfare
- 8 Maritime strategy and national policy
- 9 Technology and strategy
- 10 War is war: imperial legacies and current conflicts
- 11 Strategy and the operational level of war
- 12 Strategy and contingency
- 13 Strategy: change and continuity
- Notes
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
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- The Direction of WarContemporary Strategy in Historical Perspective, pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013