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ABC-CLIO Elements of Military Strategy An Historical Approach by Archer Jones
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._x000D_ Table of contents :- _x000D_
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_x000D_