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| Acknowledgements | |
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| List of Contributors | |
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| Preface to the Fourth Edition | |
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| Guided Tour of Learning Features | |
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| Guided Tour of the Online Resource Centre | |
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| Strategy in the Contemporary World: Strategy after 9/11 | |
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| Enduring Issues of Strategy | |
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| The Causes of War and the Conditions of Peace | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Study of War | |
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| Human Nature Explanations of War | |
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| Wars 'Within' and 'Beyond' States | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Evolution of Modern Warfare | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Napoleonic Legacy | |
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| The Industrialization of War | |
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| Naval Warfare | |
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| Total War | |
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| Nuclear Weapons and Revolutionary Warfare | |
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| Conclusion: Postmodern War | |
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| Strategic Theory | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Logic of Strategy | |
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| Clausewitz's On War | |
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| Sun Tzu, Mao, and the Jihadists | |
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| The Enduring Relevance of Strategy | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Strategic Culture | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Thinking about Culture and Strategy | |
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| Sources of Strategic Culture | |
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| Constructivism and Strategic Culture | |
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| Continuing Issues | |
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| Delineating Non-state, State, and Multi-state Strategic Cultures | |
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| Strategic Culture and Weapons of Mass Destruction | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Law, Politics, and the Use of Force | |
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| Introduction: The Efficacy of International Law | |
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| Why States Obey the Law | |
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| International Law and the Use of Force | |
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| Jus ad Bellum | |
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| Jus in Bello | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Geography and Strategy | |
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| Introduction: The Lay of the Land | |
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| Land Warfare: The Quest for Victory | |
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| Maritime Strategy | |
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| Airpower | |
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| The Final Frontier: Space War | |
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| War by Other Means: Cyberspace | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Technology and Warfare | |
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| Introduction: Technophiles and Technophobes | |
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| Some Ways of Thinking about Military Technology | |
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| Mapping Military Technology | |
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| The Revolution in Military Affairs Debate | |
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| Challenges of the New Technology | |
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| Conclusion: The Future of Military Technology | |
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| Intelligence and Strategy | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What is Intelligence? | |
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| Intelligence as Enabler of US Strategy | |
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| Strategic Surprise: Causes and Correctives | |
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| The Post-9/11 World of Intelligence | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Contemporary Problems | |
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| Irregular Warfare: Terrorism and Insurgency | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Subverting the System: The Theory and Practice of Irregular Warfare | |
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| Protecting the System: Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism in Theory and Practice | |
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| Irregular Warfare Now and in the Future | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Second Nuclear Age: Nuclear Weapons in the Twenty-first Century | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The First Nuclear Age | |
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| Risks in the Second Nuclear Age | |
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| Adapting to the Second Nuclear Age | |
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| Conclusion: Looking Towards the Third Nuclear Age? | |
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| The Control of Weapons of Mass Destruction | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Arms Control during the Cold War | |
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| The Residual Role of Arms Control in the Post-Cold War Era | |
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| From Arms Control to Counterproliferation | |
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| The Challenges of Counterproliferation | |
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| The Diplomatic Option: Strategic Responses Withheld? | |
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| The Return of Arms Control: Attempts to Reduce the Saliency of Nuclear Weapons | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Conventional Power and Contemporary Warfare | |
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| Introduction: Power and War-A History | |
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| New World Orders: 1945, 1989, 2001 | |
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| Power and Hyperpower | |
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| Military Affairs: Revolution and Counter-Revolution | |
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| Arts of War | |
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| Military Balances | |
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| World on the Scales | |
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| War, What is It Good For? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Iraq, Afghanistan, and American Military Transformation | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Afghanistan and the Transformation Thesis | |
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| Iraq 2003 and the Transformation Thesis | |
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| An Alternative View | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Homeland Security: A New Strategic Paradigm? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A New Threat? | |
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| What Should Preparations Look Like?: Dealing with the Small-N Problem | |
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| What is the United States Preparing For? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Humanitarian Intervention and Peace Operations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Changing Face of Peacekeeping | |
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| The Politics of Humanitarian Intervention | |
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| The Military Character of Peace Operations | |
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| Conclusion: Problems and Prospects | |
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| The Rise of Cyberpower | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Terms and Definitions | |
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| Cyberspace, Cyberpower, and the Infosphere | |
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| A New Dimension for Conflict | |
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| A Twenty-first Century Revolution in Military Affairs? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Future of Strategy | |
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| A New Agenda for Security and Strategy? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Need for a Conceptual Framework | |
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| Population: The Demographics of Global Politics | |
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| Commons Issues | |
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| Direct Environmental Damage | |
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| Disease | |
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| Sensitivities and Vulnerabilities | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Strategic Studies and its Critics | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Strategy and its Critics in the 'Golden Age' | |
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| Strategic Studies Strikes Back | |
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| Critical Approaches to Strategic Studies | |
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| A Continuing Debate? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Practice of Strategy | |
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| Introduction: Strategic Expertise | |
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| Improving a Strategic Education | |
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| The General Theory of Strategy | |
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| A Call for Consummate (Re)Assessing | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Does Strategic Studies have a Future? | |
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| Introduction: The Development of Strategic Studies | |
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| In and Out of the Cold War | |
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| Strategy and the Crisis in Social Science | |
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| The Academic and Policy Worlds | |
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| Realism: Old and New | |
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| The Study of Armed Force | |
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| Conclusion: Does Strategic Studies Have a Future? | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |