The Victorian Army and the Staff College 1854-1914

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Table of Contents
Preface
I The Limited Wars of the Absolute Kings
	1 The Thirty Years\' War and the Italian Condottieri
	2 The Jurists and the Limitation of War
	3 The Armies of the Absolute Kings
	4 Limited Warfare
II The Rebirth of Unlimited War
	1 Rousseau and the French Revolution
	2 Conscription a Return to Barbarism
	3 The Changes due to Conscription
	4 Democracy and Tribal Morality
III Napoleonic Warfare
	1 Napoleon Bonaparte
	2 The Elements ofNapoleonic Warfare
	3 The Principles of Napoleonic Wafare
	4 The Defects of Napoleonic Warfare
IV The Theories of Clausewitz
	1 Karl von Clausewitz
	2 What is War?
	3 Absolute and Real War
	4 war as an Instrument of Policy
	5 Grand Strategy and the Centre of Gravity
	6 The Principles of War
	7 The Defensive as the Stronger Form of War
	8 The Decisive Battle
	9 The People\'s War
	10 Clausewitz\'s disregard of Nepoleonic Warfare
V The Influences of the Industrial Revolution
	1 Impact of the Revolution on Civilization
	2 Impact of the Revolution on Society
	3 Karl Marx and the Class Struggle
	4 Impact of the Revolution on Military Power
VI The American Civil War 1861–1865
	1 Impact of the Industrial Revolution on the United States
	2 The Character of the Civil War
	3 The Strategical Problems
	4 Tactical Developments
	5 Moral Retrogression
	6 Results of the War
VII Moltke, Foch, and Bloch
	1 Field-Marshal von Moltke
	2 Marshal Ferdinand Foch
	3 Mr I. S. Bloch
VIII The Roots of Armageddon
	1 The Overseas Expansion of Western Europe
	2 Military Developments1870–1903
	3 The Last of the Warsof Expansion
	4 Discords and Concords
IX The Conduct of World War I
	1 Policy and War
	2 Fate of the War Plans
	3 Strategy of Evasion
	4 Strategy of Attrition
	5 Rebirth of Mobility
	6 Collapse on the Inner Fronts
X Lenin and the Russian Revolution
	1 Lenin an the March Revolutuion
	2 \'The State and the Revolution\'
	3 Lenin and the October Revolution
	4 The End of Utopianism
XI Soviet Revolutionary Warfare
	1 Politics and War
	2 Lenin and Clausewitz
	3 The Third (Communist) International
	4 Peace as an Instrument of Revolution
XII The Twenty Years Armistice
	1 The Carthaginian Peace
	2 Adolf Hitler
	3 Hitler\'s Foreign Policy
	4 The Road to War
	5 Tactical Theories and Fallacies
XIII The Conduct of World War II
	1 Character of World War II
	2 Allied War Policy 1939-1940
	3 Blitzkrieg 1940
	4 The Russian and German Inner Fronts
	5 President Roosevelt\'s anti-Japanese and pro-Russian Policies
	6 The Strategical Grand Climacteric
	7 The Strategic Bombing of Germany
	8 The Architects of Disaster
	9 Surrender to Russia
	10 The Tactical Grand Climacteric
	11 Defeat through Victory
XIV The Problem of Peace
	1 Retrospect
	2 Impact of Nuclear Energy on War
	3 Policies and the Cold War
	4 The Third World War
	5 Impact of Technology on Social Life
	6 The Problem of China
Appendices
	I Lenin and the Peasantry
	II President Wilson\'s Fourteen Points, Four Principles and Five Particulars
	Ill The Atlantic Charter
	IV The United Nations Pact
	V The Moscow Communist Conference of November 1960
	VI Communist Propaganda in West Germany
Index