Description
Book SynopsisThis collection constitutes the definitive guide for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students studying modern military history. It provides the reader with a clear and up-to-date survey of the significant debates, interpretations and historiographical shifts for a series of key themes in military history, ranging from the fifteenth to the twenty-first centuries, and across the technological, political, social, and cultural dimensions of military history.
Table of ContentsIntroduction; M.Hughes & W.J.Philpott Military Revolutions and Military History; L.Henninger Warfare and the Rise of the State; A.James War and Society; M.Neiberg Military Thought from Machiavelli to Liddell Hart; N.Gardner Tactics, Operations and Strategy: The Evolution of Land Warfare from Machiavelli to Desert Storm; W.Chinn Low-Intensity Conflicts, Insurgency, Terrorism and Revolutionary War; J.Cann Total War; W.J.Philpott Air Power; J.Buckley Naval Warfare; A.Lambert Non-European Warfare; B.Vandervort Imperial Military History; P.Stanley Science, Technology and War; M.Hughes New Military History; J.Bourke
