Successful Strategies: Triumphing in War and Peace from Antiquity to the Present

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Edited by Williamson Murray, Ohio State University, Richard Hart Sinnreich

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: June 2014
Print publication year:: 2014
Online ISBN:: 9781107477315
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107477315

Subjects:: Military History, History, Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations

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Successful Strategies is a fascinating new study of the key factors that have contributed to the development and execution of successful strategies throughout history. With a team of leading historians, Williamson Murray and Richard Hart Sinnreich examine how, and to what effect states, individuals and military organizations have found a solution to complex and seemingly insoluble strategic problems to reach success. Bringing together grand, political and military strategy, the book features thirteen essays which each explores a unique case or aspect of strategy. The focus ranges from individuals such as Themistocles, Bismarck and Roosevelt to organizations and bureaucratic responses. Whether discussing grand strategy in peacetime or that of war or politics, these case studies are unified by their common goal of identifying in each case the key factors that contributed to success as well as providing insights essential to any understanding of the strategic challenges of the future.

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Triumphing in War and Peace from Antiquity to the Present

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-v

Contents
pp vii-viii

List of tables and map
pp ix-ix

List of contributors
pp x-x

Acknowledgments
pp xi-xii

Introduction
pp 1-16

1 - The strategic thought of Themistocles
pp 17-37

2 - The grand strategy of the Roman Empire
pp 38-64

3 - Giraldus Cambrensis, Edward I, and the conquest of Wales
pp 65-99

4 - Creating the British way of war: English strategy in the War of the Spanish Succession
pp 100-129

5 - Failed, broken, or galvanized?
pp 130-154

6 - Victory by trial and error: Britain’s struggle against Napoleon
pp 155-188

7 - The strategy of Lincoln and Grant
pp 189-213

8 - Bismarckian strategic policy, 1871–1890
pp 214-240

9 - Dowding and the British strategy of air defense 1936–1940
pp 241-279

10 - US naval strategy and Japan
pp 280-313

11 - US grand strategy in the Second World War
pp 314-352

12 - American grand strategy and the unfolding of the Cold War 1945–1961
pp 353-402

13 - The Reagan administration’s strategy toward the Soviet Union
pp 403-431

Afterword
pp 432-447

Index
pp 448-466

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