War Studies Reader
Author: Gary Sheffield
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2010-09-02
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 0826420702
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Strategic Studies
Author: Thomas G. Mahnken
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-10
Total Pages: 643
ISBN-13: 1317805585
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe second edition of Strategic Studies: A Reader brings together key essays on strategic theory by some of the leading contributors to the field. This revised volume contains several new essays and updated introductions to each section. The volume comprises hard-to-find classics in the field as well as the latest scholarship. The aim is to provide students with a wide-ranging survey of the key issues in strategic studies, and to provide an introduction to the main ideas and themes in the field. The book contains six extensive sections, each of which is prefaced by a short introductory essay: The Uses of Strategic Theory Interpretation of the Classics Instruments of War, Intelligence and Deception Nuclear Strategy Irregular Warfare and Small Wars Future Warfare, Future Strategy Overall, this volume strikes a balance between theoretical works, which seek to discover generalisations about the nature of modern strategy, and case studies, which attempt to ground the study of strategy in the realities of modern war. This new edition will be essential reading for all students of strategic studies, security studies, military history and war studies, as well as for professional military college students.
Renaissance War Studies
Author: J. R. Hale
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 1983-07-01
Total Pages: 623
ISBN-13: 0826497926
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeginning with the chapters on warfare in the first three volumes of the New Cambridge Modern History, Sir John Hale's writings on the subject present an original and rich assessment of war's place in Renaissance life and thought. The first section of this collection constitutes a major contribution to the study of Renaissance fortifications, their design, planning and execution, and their political as well as their military significance. The second deals with the recruitment and training of officers and men. In the third, contemporary reactions to war are analysed in a variety of social and intellectual contexts. The archival and literary sources drawn on are primarily Italian, in the second place English, but the imaginative scene is that of western Europe as a whole.
Commanding the Army of the Potomac
Author: Stephen R. Taaffe
Publisher: Modern War Studies
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Stephen Taaffe takes a close look at this command cadre, examining who was appointed to these positions, why they were appointed, and why so many of them ultimately failed to fulfill their responsibilities. He demonstrates that ambitious officers such as Gouverneur Warren, John Reynolds, and Winfield Scott Hancock employed all the weapons at their disposal, from personal connections to exaggerated accounts of prowess in combat, to claw their way into these important posts." "Once there, however, as Taaffe reveals, many of these officers failed to navigate the tricky and ever-changing political currents that swirled around the Army of the Potomac. As a result, only three of them managed to retain their commands for more than a year, and their machinations caused considerable turmoil in the army's high command structure."--BOOK JACKET.
The Oxford Handbook of War
Author: Julian Lindley-French
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2012-01-19
Total Pages: 736
ISBN-13: 0191628409
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of War is the definitive analysis of war in the twenty-first century. With over forty senior authors from academia, government and the armed forces world-wide the Handbook explores the history, theory, ethics and practice of war. The Handbook first considers the fundamental causes of war, before reflecting on the moral and legal aspects of war. Theories on the practice of war lead into an analysis of the strategic conduct of war and non Western ways of war. The heart of the Handbook is a compelling analysis of the military conduct of war which is juxtaposed with consideration of technology, economy, industry, and war. In conclusion the volume looks to the future of this apparently perennial feature of human interaction.
Handbook of War Studies II
Author: Manus I. Midlarsky
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9780472067244
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays reflecting the most recent theoretically and empirically-oriented research on international warfare
A Vietnam War Reader
Author: Michael H. Hunt
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2010-02-15
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0807895806
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn essential new resource for students and teachers of the Vietnam War, this concise collection of primary sources opens a valuable window on an extraordinarily complex conflict. The materials gathered here, from both the American and Vietnamese sides, remind readers that the conflict touched the lives of many people in a wide range of social and political situations and spanned a good deal more time than the decade of direct U.S. combat. Indeed, the U.S. war was but one phase in a string of conflicts that varied significantly in character and geography. Michael Hunt brings together the views of the conflict's disparate players--from Communist leaders, Vietnamese peasants, Saigon loyalists, and North Vietnamese soldiers to U.S. policymakers, soldiers, and critics of the war. By allowing the participants to speak, this volume encourages readers to formulate their own historically grounded understanding of a still controversial struggle.
Modern Strategy
Author: Colin S. Gray
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780198280309
DOWNLOAD EBOOKModern Strategy explains how strategic reasoning makes sense of the great complexity of war on land, at sea, in the air, in space and even cyberspace.
War Studies Reader
Author: Gary Sheffield
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2010-09-02
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780826421869
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis reader provides authoritative and thought-provoking pieces of War Studies scholarship in an accessible form. Covering a wide spectrum of topics, including strategy (Colin S. Gray), 'Shell-Shock and the Cultural History of the Great War' (Jay Winter) and Coalition Warfare (Holger H. Herwig), this book purposefully ranges across military history, international relations and contemporary security to capture the multidisciplinary nature of the subject. Gary Sheffield also provides an introduction to the Reader and to War Studies, explaining the growth and development of this dynamic field of study.
War
Author: Sir John Frederick Maurice
Publisher:
Published: 1891
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13:
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