War

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War, despite its indisputably horrific nature, has shaped the international system, prompted social and technological change, and inspired the arts. This insightful book captures fully the ubiquitous and multifaceted character of war, featuring accounts by generals, soldiers, historians, strategists, and poets, who consider conflicts from the Napoleonic Wars to Bosnia. Firsthand accounts vividly evoke the French infantry experience at Waterloo, a Union-Confederate skirmish at Gettysburg, the reflections of a German seaman at Jutland, one civilian's impressions of the Blitz, the trials of a Japanese doctor in the wake of the Atom Bomb's obliteration of Nagasaki, the confusion of Vietnam, and more. A broad range of questions are addressed: What are the causes of war? Which strategic as well as moral principles guide its conduct, and how have these changed? Has total war become unthinkable? What is the nature of contemporary conflict? How is war experienced by those on the front line? With contributions by leading scholars, and edited by one the most oft-quoted and prolific of military experts, this reader offers a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of one of humankind's oldest and most controversial preoccupations.

Table of Contents

General Introduction, Law
A. The Experience of War
Introduction, Michael Dockrill
1. A Royal Naval Rating at the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805
2. A French Infantryman at Waterloo, 18 June 1815
3. A Union-Confederate Infantry Skirmish at Gettysburg, 1863
4. A British Soldier Fighting the Mahdists in the Sudan, 1885
5. A German Seaman at the Battle of Jutland, June 1916
6. An Infantry Officer at the Battle of the Somme, July 1916, B. H. Liddell Hart
7. A Spanish Republican Official at the Siege of Madrid, November 1936, Arturo Barea
8. The Collapse of the Franco-British-Belgian Armies in Belgium, May 1940, Sir Henry Pownall
9. Living Through the Blitz, 1940, Tom Harrison
10. The Destruction of Two U-Boats, March 1941, Donald MacIntyre
11. Defeat In The Battle of Alamein, November 1942, Field Marshall Rommel
12. The End of the Warsaw Ghetto, January 1943
13. Bombing Duisburg, October 1944, Miles Tripp
14. A Doctor at Nagasaki, August 1945, Tatsuichiro Akizuki
15. China Enters the Korean War, November 1950, Max Hastings
16. President Kennedy and the Cuban Crisis
17. The Fresh Kill, Vietnam 1967, Davidson Loehr
18. Attacking the Sir Galahad, June 1982, Pablo Carballo
19. On the Sir Galahad, Martin Middlebrook
20. Covering Grenada, Ed Cody
21. A Soviet Soldier Defects, Afghanistan 1983, Artyom Borovik
22. The Start of Desert Storm, January 1991
23. Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia, June 1992, Vanessa Vasic Janekovic
B. The Causes of War
Introduction, Efraim Karsh
24. Definitions of War, Quincy Wright
25. Man, the State, and War, Kenneth Waltz
26. Biological and Psychological Roots, Raymond Aron
27. Geopolitics, Saul B. Cohen
28. WHy Men Fight, Martin Van Creveld
29. Four Kinds of War, Ibn Khaldun
30. Wars of Gain, Fear, and Doctrine, Martin Wright
31. Hegemonic War and the International Change, Robert Gilpin
32. Socialism and War, Vladimir Lenin
33. Structural Factors, Seyom Brown
34. Liberal States and War, Michael W. Doyle
C. War and the Military Establishment
Introduction, Christopher Dandeker
35. States and Military Power in Social Theory, A. Giddens
36. The Bureaucratization of Force, C. Dandeker
37. The Military Professional, M. Janowitz
38. The Military and Politics, A. Vagts
39. Mass Armed Forces in Decline, Philippe Manigart
40. Feminism's War with War, Jean Blshtain
41. Armed FOrces in a Warless Society, Charles C. Moskos
42. Desertion in the American Civil War, Brian Holden Reid and John White
43. Undermining German Morale, Edward Shils and Morris Janowitz
44. Military Cohesion, N. Kinzer Stewart
D. The Ethics of War
Introduction, Barrie Paskins
45. Two Poems, Wilfred Owen, Herbert Read
46. The Pacifism of Absolute Principle, John Yodor
47. Pacific-ism, Martin Ceadel
48. Six Principles of Political Realism, Hans Morgenthau
49. Why Bush Went to War, Lawrence Freedman and Efraim Karsh
50. Sieges, Michael Walzer
51. The Trial of Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt
52. Barrie Paskins The Responsiblities of Defense Scientists
53. Just-War Doctrine and Revolutionary War, W. V. O'Brien
54. Intervention, J. E. Hare and Carey B. Joynt
55. Vietnam and Nuremburg, Paul C. Warnke
E. Strategy
Introduction, Beatrice Heuser and Lawrence Freedman
56. The Logic of Strategy, Edward Luttwak
57. The Dimensions of Strategy, Michael Howard
58. The Strategy of Conflict, Thomas Schelling
59. Key Concepts, Carl Von Clausewitz
60. Strategy and Grand Tactics, Baron De Jomini
61. Maxims, Napoleon
62. Doctrines of War, Helmuth Von Moltke
63. Moral Elements in Battle, Charles Ardant Du Picq
64. Command of the Sea, Julian Corbett
65. Command of the Air, Giulio Douhet
66. The Indirect Approach, B. H. Liddell Hart
67. Blitzkrieg, F. Miksche
68. Soviet Strategy, V. D. Sokolovsky
69. A Strategy of Deterrence, A. Beaufre
70. The Threat that Leaves Something to Chance, Thomas Schelling
F. Total War and the Great Powers
Introduction, Brian Holden Reid and Lawrence Freedman
71. The Military Revolution, Geoffrey Parker
72. Total War, Ian F. W. Beckett
73. Crimean Illusions, Andrew Lambert
74. Restraints on Land War, Geoffrey Best
75. The Tactical Offensive in France, Douglas Porch
76. The Secrets of Overlord, Stephen E. Ambrose
77. The Image of the Japenese, Christopher Thorne
78. The Strategy of Blockade, Colin Gray
79. The Evolution of Air Power, David Macisaac
80. US Objectives with Respect to Russia
81. Disarmament and the Balance of Power, Hedley Bull
82. Instability in Europe After the Cold War, John Mearsheimer
G. Limited War and Developing Countries
Introduction, Martin Navias and Timothy Moreman
83. Small Wars, C. E. Calwell
84. Imperial Policing, Charles W. Gwynn
85. Savage Warfare, L. J. Shadwell
86. Mao's Military Principles
87. The Character of Guerilla Warfare, Walter Laqueur
88. General Giap on Dien Phu and Tet, Stanley Karnow
89. The Failure of the Multi-National Force: Lebanon, 1983-4, John Mackinlay
90. Limited War and Korea, Robert E. Osgood
91. Pacification and Attrition in Vietnam, Richard A. Hunt
92. Surprise in October 1973, Michael Handel
93. Limited War and Korea, Robert E. Osgood
94. The Impact of Arms Sales, Andrew Pierre
95. Nuclear Weapons: More May Be Better, Kenneth Waltz
96. The Future of Low-Intensity War, Martin Van Creveld
97. Weak States and the West, Lawrence Freedman
Select Bibliography
Biographical Notes
Acknowledgements
Index