Archer Jones

Elements of Military Strategy

An Historical Approach

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Produktbeschreibung

This book uses history in two ways: as the source of ideas about strategy and as examples to illustrate the elements by showing their application to specific campaigns and their utility in understanding the role of strategy in military operations. The focus is on American military campaigns from the American Indian Wars to the War in the Gulf. Those case studies are used to illustrate the strategy behind land, sea, and air campaigns. Over a fifth of the book examines the U.S. war against Japan because it furnishes such fine examples of independent and interdependent operations on land, on the sea, and in the air. The cases studied are not only intended to illustrate strategic ideas but also to show the utility of the author's distinctive approach to organizing military strategy. The book will appeal to military professionals, students of military science, and enthusiasts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9780275955274
• ISBN-10: 0275955273
• Artikelnr.: 22258300

Autorenporträt

ARCHER JONES is Professor Emeritus of History and a former dean at North Dakota State University. He is the author of Confederate Strategy from Shiloh to Vicksburg (1961), The Art of War in the Western World (1987), and Civil War Command and Strategy (1992) and joint author of Politics of Command, Factions and Ideas in Confederate Strategy (1973), How the North Won: A Military History of the Civil War (1983), and Why the South Lost the Civil War (1986). He has served as Morrison Professor of History at the U. S. Army Command and General Staff College, member of the Department of the Army Historical Advisory Committee, and trustee of the American Military Institute.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction Operations Within a Base Area The English Colonists'
Warfare against the Native Americans The United States in the Second
Seminole War The United States in the Great Sioux War Operations from a
remote Base Area The Commerce-Raiding War in the Atlantic, 1940-1945 Air
Warfare in Northwestern Europe 1940-1945 The Allied Western Europe Campaign
1944-1945 The United States in the Pacific in World War II The Strategy of
the Korean War The Persian Gulf Conflict of 1990-1991 Operations with a
Mixture of Base Area Access The United States in Vietnam Some Unifying
Elements Political Aspects The Principles of War and Some Related Ideas
Some Factors Affecting Strategic Choice and Outcomes Appendix: Weapons and
Strategy in the Twentieth Century