Strategic Culture and Ways of War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Strategic Culture and Ways of War write by Lawrence Sondhaus. This book was released on 2006-08-21. Strategic Culture and Ways of War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A much-needed survey and synopsis of literature on strategic culture and ways of war. It clearly shows how national strategies and approaches to warfare are, to a significant extent, culturally determined. The concept of national ‘ways of war’ dates from the 1930s, when Basil H. Liddell Hart theorized that there was a ‘British Way in Warfare’. The concept of "strategic culture" dates from the 1970s, when Jack Snyder introduced it to explain why leaders of the Soviet Union did not behave according to rational choice theory. These ideas have gained wide acceptance among historians of international politics and warfare, and remain controversial for political scientists seeking general or universal theoretical understanding of such subjects. Because political scientists have focused on strategic culture and historians on ways of war, this work will greatly benefit both audiences and provide each with valuable exposure to the ideas of the other.
The Direction of War
The Direction of War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Direction of War write by Hew Strachan. This book was released on 2013-12-05. The Direction of War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A major contribution to our understanding of contemporary warfare and strategy by one of the world's leading military historians.
Reconsidering the American Way of War
Reconsidering the American Way of War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reconsidering the American Way of War write by Antulio J. EchevarriaII. This book was released on 2014-05-28. Reconsidering the American Way of War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Challenging several longstanding notions about the American way of war, this book examines US strategic and operational practice from 1775 to 2014. It surveys all major US wars from the War of Independence to the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as most smaller US conflicts to determine what patterns, if any, existed in American uses of force. Contrary to many popular sentiments, Echevarria finds that the American way of war is not astrategic, apolitical, or defined by the use of overwhelming force. Instead, the American way of war was driven more by political considerations than military ones, and the amount of force employed was rarely overwhelming or decisive. As a scholar of Clausewitz, Echevarria borrows explicitly from the Prussian to describe the American way of war not only as an extension of US policy by other means, but also the continuation of US politics by those means. The book’s focus on strategic and operational practice closes the gap between critiques of American strategic thinking and analyses of US campaigns. Echevarria discovers that most conceptions of American strategic culture fail to hold up to scrutiny, and that US operational practice has been closer to military science than to military art. Providing a fresh look at how America’s leaders have used military force historically and what that may mean for the future, this book should be of interest to military practitioners and policymakers, students and scholars of military history and security studies, and general readers interested in military history and the future of military power.
The Oxford Handbook of War
The Oxford Handbook of War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Handbook of War write by Julian Lindley-French. This book was released on 2012-01-19. The Oxford Handbook of War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The 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.
The New American Way of War
The New American Way of War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The New American Way of War write by Ben Buley. This book was released on 2007-10-25. The New American Way of War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the cultural history and future prospects of the so-callednew American way of war. In recent decades, American military culture has become increasingly dominated by a vision ofimmaculate destruction which reached its apogee with the fall of Baghdad in 2003. Operation Iraqi Freedom was hailed as the triumphant validati
