The Changing Face of War: Learning from History

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Foreword vii
• Preface ix
• Editor's Preface xi
• Introduction 3
• Notes 5
• Part I the Evolution of Military Strategy and Doctrine 7
• Clausewitz and His Influence on U.S. and Canadian Military Doctrine 9
• The Myth of Manoeuvre Warfare: Attrition in Military History 22
• Notes 31
• Strategy and Technology in Transition: Moltke and the Prussian General Staff 33
• Notes 48
• A Study in Operational Command: Byng and the Canadian Corps 50
• Notes 64
• An Example of Force Development: Tukhachevsky and the Soviet Art of Deep Battle 67
• Notes 79
• The Problem of Army Renewal: Seeckt and the Reichswehr 83
• Part II Unconventional Warfare 103
• Mao Zedong: A Peasant Who Learned from History 105
• Notes 118
• Revolutionary War: the Viet Minh and the First Indo-Chinese War 120
• Notes 133
• Vo Nguyên Giap: A Strategy for Protracted Revolutionary War 135
• Notes 147
• Brown-Water Navies and Counterinsurgency Operations 149
• Notes 165
• Eliminating the Shadows: Applying Counterinsurgency Doctrine to Peacekeeping 168
• Notes 176
• Part III Conflict in the Twenty-First Century 179
• Computers and Strategy: It's the Thought That Counts 181
• Stealth Technology: A Revolution in Air Warfare? 197
• Notes 211
• Beyond the Line: Strategy in Support of Space Control 213
• Conventional Arms Control and Intelligence: A Symbiotic Relationship 227
• Conclusion 238
• The Statistical Study of War: the Relationship Between Democracy and War 239
• Notes 251
• The Media and the Conduct of War 255
• Bibliography 273
• Contributors 289
• Index 295

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