TY - BOOK AU - Mahnken, Thomas G., ed. AU - Maiolo, Joseph A., ed. TI - Strategic studies: a reader SN - 9780415772211 U1 - 355.43 PY - 2008/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Strategy KW - History N1 - Part 1. The uses of strategic theory: Introduction 1. Strategy as a science / Bernard Brodie 2. Strategic studies and the problem of power / Lawrence Freedman ; What is a military lesson? / William C. Fuller, Jr. Part 2. Interpretation of the classics: Introduction 4. "The Art of War" / Sun Tzu 5. Strategy: the indirect approach / Basil Lidell Hart ; 6. Arms and influence / Thomas C. Schelling Part 3. Instruments of war: land, sea, and air power: Introduction 7. J.F.C. Fuller's theory of mechanized warfare / Brian Holden Reid 8. Some principles of maritime strategy / Julian Corbett 9. Air power and the origins of deterrence theory before 1939 / R.J. Overy 10. Kosovo and the great air power debate / Daniel L. Byman and Matthew C. Waxman Part 4. Nuclear strategy: Introduction 11. The absolute weapon / Bernard Brodie 12. The delicate balance of terror / Albert Wohlstetter Part 5. Irregular warfare and small wars: Introduction 13. Science of guerrilla warfare / T.E. Lawrence 14. Problems of strategy in China's civil war / Mao Tse Tung 15. Counterinsurgency warfare: theory and practice / David Galula 16. Why big nations lose small wars: the politics of asymmetric conflict / Andrew Mack 17. Countering global insurgency / David J. Kilcullen 18. Strategic terrorism: the framework and its fallacies / Peter R. Neumann and M.L.R. Smith Part 6. Future warfare, future strategy: Introduction 19. Cavalry to computer: the pattern of military revolutions / Andrew F. Krepinevich 20. From Kadesh to Kandahar: military theory and the future of war / Michael Evans 21. Why strategy is difficult / Colin S. Gray 22. The 'war on terror' in historical perspective / Adam Roberts 23. The lost meaning of strategy / Hew Strachan ER -