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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter One Strategic Thought in America, 1952-1966 -- Chapter Two The Coming of the First World War: A Reassessment -- Chapter Three A "Wasting Asset": American Strategy and the Shifting Nuclear Balance, 1949-1954 -- Chapter Four The Nuclearization of NATO and U.S.-West European Relations -- Chapter Five The Berlin Crisis -- Chapter Six The Influence of Nuclear Weapons in the Cuban Missile Crisis -- Chapter Seven Making Sense of the Nuclear Age -- Appendix Key to Abbreviations in Chapter Five -- Index

"This study is the first comprehensive assessment of warfare in Angola to cover all three phases of the nation's modern history: the anti-colonial struggle, the Cold War phase, and the post-Cold War era. It is also the first to cover, in detail, the final phase of warfare in Angola, 1998-2002, culminating in Jonas Savimbi's death and the signing of the Luena Accord. Author Stephen Weigart offers a controversial account of the strategy of guerrilla warfare employed by the Unita insurgency as well as an assessment of the role and significance of leadership in insurgency. He challenges the conventional view of Jonas Savimbi as a 'student of Mao Zedong' and demonstrates that his strategy of guerrilla warfare represented a more complex and nuanced adaptation of additional influences, notably Colonel George Grivas of the 1950s Cyprus insurgency. Moreover, this account also urges the reader to consider Savimbi's 'charisma' as a character trait which blinded and distracted many from a more sober assessment of his political inclinations (reformer or revolutionary) and his abilities as a military commander"--

Title Page -- About the Layout -- Dedication -- List of Maps, Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One: South Africa, 1899-1902: The Last Gentleman's War? -- The geopolitical landscape and the rival strategies -- Boer and Briton -- The Boer offensive and the battles of the frontiers -- The British invasion of the republics -- The change in Boer strategy -- The British counterinsurgency strategy: logistics, blockhouses, mobile columns, camps -- Blockhouses -- Drives: mobile columns and armoured trains -- Boer tactics -- Morale -- Political warfare -- The butcher's bill -- Conclusion -- Chapter Two: Integration and Union, 1902-1914 -- Empire, military organisation and the threat perception -- Pacification of the highveld and creation of the Transvaal Volunteers -- The politics of military integration: the forging of the Union Defence Force -- Conclusion -- Chapter Three: The First World War, 1914-1918 -- The politics of participation -- A bad beginning: gambits and crises -- Military reform and the second invasion of South West Africa -- Raising and dispatch of expeditionary forces -- German East Africa, 1915-1918 -- The Middle East: Egypt and Palestine -- France: mud and trenches -- Conclusion -- Chapter Four: The Inter-war Years, 1919-1939 -- Defence policy, strategic calculations and threat perception -- Demobilisation, rationalisation and reorganisation -- Technology, military innovation and organisational politics -- Politics: domestic and Commonwealth -- Revised threat perception and policy change -- Political opposition and mobilisation -- Conclusion -- Chapter Five: The Second World War, 1939-1945 -- Politics, domestic and imperial -- A house divided: subversion, propaganda and secret agents -- The mobilisation of the Union Defence Force -- Home waters: the expansion of an air force and the creation of a navy

This study argues that guerrilla insurgencies will be a major feature of the post-Cold War international scene, and that the advisability of intervention in some of them will become a serious issue in American politics. Americans therefore need to refine their understanding of insurgency. Anthony James Joes analyzes several major insurgencies of this century, all of which the United States became involved in to one degree or another. While approaching each guerrilla insurgency as a primarily political phenomenon within a definite historical and cultural context, Joes also provides the reader w

"Looks at modern conflicts between 1990 and 2014 from a historical perspective. Argues that understanding non-Western developments is crucial if the potential of Western war-making is to be assessed accurately"--

This three-volume study examines the questions raised by the performance of the military institutions of France, Germany, Russia, the United States, Great Britain, Japan and Italy in the period from 1914 to 1945. Leading military historians deal with the different national approaches to war and military power at the tactical, operational, strategic, and political levels. They form the basis for a fundamental re-examination of how military organizations have performed in the first half of the twentieth century. Volume 2 covers the interwar period. Volumes 1 and 3 address World War I and World War II, respectively. Now in a new edition, with a new introduction by the editors, these classic volumes will remain invaluable for military historians and social scientists in their examination of national security and military issues. They will also be essential reading for future military leaders at Staff and War Colleges

"Cover " -- "Half Title " -- "Title Page" -- "Copyright" -- "Dedication" -- "Contents" -- "Introduction" -- "Chapter 1: Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign and the Decline of the Ottoman Empire " -- "Chapter 2: The First World War and the Ottoman Succession " -- "Chapter 3: The Second World War " -- "Chapter 4: The Cold War and the Establishment of Israel " -- "Chapter 5: Arab-Israeli Conventional Operations, 1967–1973 " -- "Chapter 6: British Military Withdrawal, the Iranian Revolution, and the Iran-Iraq War " -- "Chapter 7: The Establishment of USCENTCOM, Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait, and Operation Desert Storm " -- "Chapter 8: Containing Saddam, Jihad in Afghanistan, and Terrorist Attacks on the U.S. Homeland " -- "Chapter 9: The Iraq War and the Rise of the Islamic State in the Middle East " -- "Chapter 10: Summary " -- "Notes " -- "Selected Bibliography" -- "Index

"This book approaches the World Wars and the decades between them as a single unit in modern history. It is impossible to understand either the cause or conduct of the 1939-45 war without an appreciation of the issues not wholly answered in the conflict of 1914-18. Bridging the World Wars was the establishment, revision, and ultimate collapse of the Versailles settlement and the League of Nations system between 1919 and 1939. The 1919 settlement was contested in the 1920s by Fascist Italy and began to unravel irreparably in 1931 with Japan's incursion into Manchuria. The strategic thought of the interwar years is therefore especially instructive in assessing the prosecution of WWII, as the military ventures of these two revisionist powers pointed toward future developments even before Germany thrust a new way of war upon Eastern and Western Europe. Meanwhile, Britain, France, and the United States began an incremental conversion to new approaches to war in the air and on the sea in particular. The interwar decades are best understood as a period of calibrated rearmament by all the powers based on assumptions about the probability of a future war and the nature of its prosecution"--