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Warfare in the Western World Military Operations from 1600 to 1871

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ISBN-10: 0669209392

ISBN-13: 9780669209396

Edition: 1996

Authors: Roy K. Flint, George C. Herring, Robert A. Doughty, Ira D. Gruber, Mark Grimsley

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Authoritative and concise, Warfare in the Western World concentrates on selected campaigns and battles, showing how political and military leaders in the West have used armies to wage war effectively over the last four centuries. The text moves through the centuries, discussing how operational developments and technological improvements eventually led to the concept of total war, first approached in the American Civil War and culminating in the twentieth century's two world wars.
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Book details

List price: $224.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: CENGAGE Learning
Publication date: 1/2/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 560
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.134
Language: English

Brigadier General (Ret.) Robert A. Doughty served as Professor and Head of the Department of History at the United States Military Academy from 1985 to 2005.

Ira D. Gruber is Harris Masterson, Jr. Professor Emeritus of History at Rice University. From 1966 to 2009 he taught courses in early American and military history at Rice, the U.S. Military Academy, and the U.S. Army Staff College.

Contents forWarfare in the Western World
Military Operations from 1600 to 1871
The Age of Limited War
Gustavus Adolphus and the Military Revolution
Toward Limited War in Europe, 16481714
Limited War in Western Europe, 17141763
Anglo-American Warfare, 16071763: The Emergence of the People in Arms
The War for American Independence, 17751783: The People at War
The Nation in Arms and National Warfare
Revolution in Warfare During the Age of the French Revolution
The Rise of Napoleonic Warfare: Increasing the Scale, Speed, and Decisiveness of Warfare
The Limits of Napoleonic Warfare
Breaking Napoleon's Power: Warfare on a New Scale
Professionalism, Industrialization, and Mass Warfare in the Nineteenth Century
American Military Policy, 17831860: The Beginnings of Professionalism
The Civil War, 18611862 : The Lethal Face of Battle
The Civil War, 1862: Ending the Limited War
The Civil War, 1863: Moving Democracies Toward Total War
The Civil
The Transition from Napoleonic Methods to the Prussian Military System, 18151871
Contents forWarfare in the Western World
Military Operations Since 1871
Total War and the Great War
Making War More Lethal, 1871 1914
The Great War: An Indecisive Beginning
Attempting to End the Stalemate, 19141915
1917: The Year of Desperation and Anticipation
Breaking the Hold of the Trenches, 1918
Total War Around the World
Germany Triumphant: Restoring Mobility to War
Germany Arrested: The Limits of Expansion
The Atlantic and the Pacific: Producin
The Eastern and Mediterranean Fronts: Winning Battles of Men and Machines
Victory in Europe: Brute Force in the Air and on the Ground
Victory in the Pacific: Naval and Amphibious War on the Operational Level
Warfare in the Nuclear Era
The Cold War and the Nuclear Era: Adjusting Warfare to Weapons of Mass Destruction
Korea: Limiting War to Avoid Armageddon
The Vietnam War, 19611975: Revolutionary and Conventional Warfare in an Era of Limited War
War in the Middle East: Violence Across the Spectrum of Conflict
The Age of Interventions: Projecting Power and Enforcing Peace