Elements of Military Strategy: An Historical Approach

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Elements of Military Strategy: An Historical Approach by Archer Jones. Praeger Publishers, 88 Post Road West, Westport, Connecticut 06881, 1996, 264 pages, $24.95.

Military historian Archer Jones uses history in Elements of Military Strategy in two ways: for a source of ideas about military strategy and for examples illustrating the elements by showing their application to specific campaigns and for understanding the role of strategy in military operations. The focus is on American military land, sea, and air campaigns from the English colonists' warfare against the Native Americans in the middle 1600s to the Gulf War in the early 1990s.

An unusual historical perspective …