War / edited by Lawrence Freedman
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994
- xi, 385 p. ; 22 cm.
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- 0192892541
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"War makes headlines and history books. It has shaped the international system, prompted social change, and inspired literature, art, and music. It engenders some of the most intense as well as the most brutal human experiences, and it raises fundamental questions of human ethics." "The ubiquitous, contradictory, and many-sided character of war is fully reflected in this reader. It addresses a wide range of questions: What are the causes of war? Which strategic as well as moral principles guide its conduct, and how have these changed? Has total war become unthinkable? What is the nature of contemporary conflict? How is war experienced by those on the front line?" "These and other key issues are examined through a variety of writings. Drawing on sources from numerous countries and disciplines, this reader includes accounts by generals, soldiers, historians, strategists, and poets, who consider conflicts from the Napoleonic Wars to Vietnam and Bosnia. The writing not only of great strategic thinkers but also of ordinary soldiers illustrates both the theory and the experience of war in its many guises."--BOOK JACKET. merely ref.
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- A. The Experience of War
- Introduction, Michael Dockrill
- 1. A Royal Naval Rating at the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805
- 2. A French Infantryman at Waterloo, 18 June 1815
- 3. A Union-Confederate Infantry Skirmish at Gettysburg, 1863
- 4. A British Soldier Fighting the Mahdists in the Sudan, 1885
- 5. A German Seaman at the Battle of Jutland, June 1916
- 6. An Infantry Officer at the Battle of the Somme, July 1916, B. H. Liddell Hart
- 7. A Spanish Republican Official at the Siege of Madrid, November 1936, Arturo Barea
- 8. The Collapse of the Franco-British-Belgian Armies in Belgium, May 1940, Sir Henry Pownall
- 9. Living Through the Blitz, 1940, Tom Harrison
- 10. The Destruction of Two U-Boats, March 1941, Donald MacIntyre
- 11. Defeat In The Battle of Alamein, November 1942, Field Marshall Rommel
- 12. The End of the Warsaw Ghetto, January 1943
- 13. Bombing Duisburg, October 1944, Miles Tripp
- 14. A Doctor at Nagasaki, August 1945, Tatsuichiro Akizuki
- 15. China Enters the Korean War, November 1950, Max Hastings
- 16. President Kennedy and the Cuban Crisis
- 17. The Fresh Kill, Vietnam 1967, Davidson Loehr
- 18. Attacking the Sir Galahad, June 1982, Pablo Carballo
- 19. On the Sir Galahad, Martin Middlebrook
- 20. Covering Grenada, Ed Cody
- 21. A Soviet Soldier Defects, Afghanistan 1983, Artyom Borovik
- 22. The Start of Desert Storm, January 1991
- 23. Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia, June 1992, Vanessa Vasic Janekovic
- B. The Causes of War
- Introduction, Efraim Karsh
- 24. Definitions of War, Quincy Wright
- 25. Man, the State, and War, Kenneth Waltz
- 26. Biological and Psychological Roots, Raymond Aron
- 27. Geopolitics, Saul B. Cohen
- 28. WHy Men Fight, Martin Van Creveld
- 29. Four Kinds of War, Ibn Khaldun
- 30. Wars of Gain, Fear, and Doctrine, Martin Wright
- 31. Hegemonic War and the International Change, Robert Gilpin
- 32. Socialism and War, Vladimir Lenin
- 33. Structural Factors, Seyom Brown
- 34. Liberal States and War, Michael W. Doyle
- C. War and the Military Establishment
- Introduction, Christopher Dandeker
- 35. States and Military Power in Social Theory, A. Giddens
- 36. The Bureaucratization of Force, C. Dandeker
- 37. The Military Professional, M. Janowitz
- 38. The Military and Politics, A. Vagts
- 39. Mass Armed Forces in Decline, Philippe Manigart
- 40. Feminism's War with War, Jean Blshtain
- 41. Armed FOrces in a Warless Society, Charles C. Moskos
- 42. Desertion in the American Civil War, Brian Holden Reid and John White
- 43. Undermining German Morale, Edward Shils and Morris Janowitz
- 44. Military Cohesion, N. Kinzer Stewart
- D. The Ethics of War
- Introduction, Barrie Paskins
- 45. Two Poems, Wilfred Owen, Herbert Read
- 46. The Pacifism of Absolute Principle, John Yodor
- 47. Pacific-ism, Martin Ceadel
- 48. Six Principles of Political Realism, Hans Morgenthau
- 49. Why Bush Went to War, Lawrence Freedman and Efraim Karsh
- 50. Sieges, Michael Walzer
- 51. The Trial of Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt
- 52. Barrie Paskins The Responsiblities of Defense Scientists
- 53. Just-War Doctrine and Revolutionary War, W. V. O'Brien
- 54. Intervention, J. E. Hare and Carey B. Joynt
- 55. Vietnam and Nuremburg, Paul C. Warnke
- E. Strategy
- Introduction, Beatrice Heuser and Lawrence Freedman
- 56. The Logic of Strategy, Edward Luttwak
- 57. The Dimensions of Strategy, Michael Howard
- 58. The Strategy of Conflict, Thomas Schelling
- 59. Key Concepts, Carl Von Clausewitz
- 60. Strategy and Grand Tactics, Baron De Jomini
- 61. Maxims, Napoleon
- 62. Doctrines of War, Helmuth Von Moltke
- 63. Moral Elements in Battle, Charles Ardant Du Picq
- 64. Command of the Sea, Julian Corbett
- 65. Command of the Air, Giulio Douhet
- 66. The Indirect Approach, B. H. Liddell Hart
- 67. Blitzkrieg, F. Miksche
- 68. Soviet Strategy, V. D. Sokolovsky
- 69. A Strategy of Deterrence, A. Beaufre
- 70. The Threat that Leaves Something to Chance, Thomas Schelling
- F. Total War and the Great Powers
- Introduction, Brian Holden Reid and Lawrence Freedman
- 71. The Military Revolution, Geoffrey Parker
- 72. Total War, Ian F. W. Beckett
- 73. Crimean Illusions, Andrew Lambert
- 74. Restraints on Land War, Geoffrey Best
- 75. The Tactical Offensive in France, Douglas Porch
- 76. The Secrets of Overlord, Stephen E. Ambrose
- 77. The Image of the Japenese, Christopher Thorne
- 78. The Strategy of Blockade, Colin Gray
- 79. The Evolution of Air Power, David Macisaac
- 80. US Objectives with Respect to Russia
- 81. Disarmament and the Balance of Power, Hedley Bull
- 82. Instability in Europe After the Cold War, John Mearsheimer
- G. Limited War and Developing Countries
- Introduction, Martin Navias and Timothy Moreman
- 83. Small Wars, C. E. Calwell
- 84. Imperial Policing, Charles W. Gwynn
- 85. Savage Warfare, L. J. Shadwell
- 86. Mao's Military Principles
- 87. The Character of Guerilla Warfare, Walter Laqueur
- 88. General Giap on Dien Phu and Tet, Stanley Karnow
- 89. The Failure of the Multi-National Force: Lebanon, 1983-4, John Mackinlay
- 90. Limited War and Korea, Robert E. Osgood
- 91. Pacification and Attrition in Vietnam, Richard A. Hunt
- 92. Surprise in October 1973, Michael Handel
- 93. Limited War and Korea, Robert E. Osgood
- 94. The Impact of Arms Sales, Andrew Pierre
- 95. Nuclear Weapons: More May Be Better, Kenneth Waltz
- 96. The Future of Low-Intensity War, Martin Van Creveld
- 97. Weak States and the West, Lawrence Freedman
- Select Bibliography
- Biographical Notes
- Acknowledgements
- Index.
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