Concepts of War, 1650-1900: From Free-rider Strategies to Survival of the Fittest (Value Inquiry Book / Studies in the History of Western Philosophy, 383)

Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Figures and Tables
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Cat’s Grand Strategy: Pieter de la Court on Holland and the Challenges and Prospects of Free-Riding Behaviour during the General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century
	1 Introduction
	2 Commerce and Compromise
	3 Historical Context: Change and Crisis
	4 Game Theory
	5 Holland and Europe: the Opportunities of Free-Riding
	6 Holland and the Other United Provinces: the Challenges of Free-Riding
	7 Philosophical Context: Hobbes and Spinoza
	8 Conclusion
Chapter 2 François Fénelon on Luxury, War, and Trade in the Telemachus
	1 Introduction
	2 Telemachus
	3 Boetica
	4 Salentum: Luxury and War
	5 Salentum: Commerce
	6 Mercantilism
	7 Quietism
	8 Self-Interest
	9 Evaluation
Chapter 3 ‘The Effect in Turn Became the Cause’: Determinism and Causal Feedback Loops in Montesquieu’s Explanations for the Military Rise and Fall of Rome
	1 Introduction
	2 Determinism and Contingency at the Meso-level
	3 Process Explanations
	4 Military and Political Context
	5 Philosophical and Historiographical Context
Chapter 4 Carl von Clausewitz on Limited War: a Three-Stage Interpretation
	1 Introduction
	2 Interaction and Holism
	3 Friction
	4 Suspension
	5 Politics
	6 Discussion
Chapter 5 What-if at Waterloo: Clausewitz’s Use of Historical Counterfactuals in His History of the Campaign of 1815
	1 Introduction
	2 Description: the Waterloo Campaign in 25 Counterfactuals
	3 Analysis of the Function of Counterfactuals in the Campaign of 1815
	4 Context: on War
	5 Context: Military History in General
Chapter 6 Models of War, 1770–1830: the Birth of Wargames and the Trade-off between Realism and Simplicity
	1 Introduction
	2 Wargames, 1770–1830: Types and Functions
	3 Historical Background: Peace and War and Peace
	4 Trade-off between Realism and Simplicity
	5 The Realism-Simplicity Trade-off and Chance
	6 Discussion: Empire of Chance?
	7 Conclusion
Chapter 7 Preparing for War: Prussian–German Professional Wargames and the Leadership Concept of Mission Tactics, 1870–1880
	1 Introduction
	2 Prussian–German Wargames, 1870–1880
	3 Wargames and Mission Tactics
	4 Wargames and Mission Tactics: Incubation, Rifles, and Railways
	5 Conclusion
Chapter 8 Herbert Spencer and the Paradox of War
	1 Introduction
	2 The Function of War: before Spencer
	3 Spencer on the Function of War
	4 Biological Evolution: Two Mechanisms
	5 Evolution of the Militant and the Industrial Type: the Same Two Mechanisms
	6 The Function of the Militant/Industrial Typology
	7 Evaluation
Bibliography
Index