Strategy

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 5
Preface to the Second Edition......Page 9
Preface......Page 10
PART I.  STRATEGY FROM FIFTH CENTURY B.C. TO TWENTITH CENTURY A.D.......Page 13
Chapter I. History as Practical Experience......Page 14
Chapter II. Greek Wars - Epaminondas, Philip, and Alexander......Page 16
Chapter III. Roman Wars - Hannibal, Scipio, and Caesar......Page 25
Chapter IV. Byzantine Wars - Belisarius and Narses......Page 32
Chapter V. Medieval Wars......Page 40
Chapter VI. The Seventeen Century - Gustavus, Cromwell, Turenne......Page 44
Chapter VII. The Eighteen Century - Marlborough and Frederick......Page 50
Chapter VIII. The French Revolution and Napoleon Bonaparte......Page 60
Chapter IX. 1854-1914......Page 75
Chapter X. Conclusions from Twenty-Five Centuries......Page 85
PART II.  STRATEGY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR......Page 87
Chapter XI. The Plans and Their Issue in the Western Theater, 1914......Page 88
Chapter XII. The North-Eastern Theater......Page 95
Chapter XIII. The South-Eastern Theater or Mediterranean Theater......Page 100
Chapter XIV. The Strategy of 1918......Page 106
PART III.  STRATEGY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR......Page 115
Chapter  XV. Hitler\'s Strategy......Page 116
Chapter XVI. Hitler\'s Run of Victory......Page 124
Chapter XVII. Hitler\'s Decline......Page 132
Chapter  XVIII. Hitler\'s Fall......Page 152
PART IV.  FUNDAMENTALS OF STRATEGY AND GRAND STRATEGY......Page 171
Chapter  XIX. The Theory of Strategy......Page 172
Chapter  XX. The Concentrated Essence of Strategy and Tactics......Page 180
Chapter  XXI. National Object and Military Aim......Page 182
Chapter XXII. Grand Strategy......Page 189
Chapter XXIII. Guerilla War......Page 193
Appendix I.  The Strategy of Indirect Approach in the North African Campaign, 1940-42......Page 198
Appendix II. Arab-Israel War, 1948-49......Page 206
Index of Deductions......Page 216
Index......Page 218