The Cambridge History of Strategy: Volume 1, From Antiquity to the American War of Independence

Préface
A history of strategy the world over, from the beginning of recorded history to the end of the eighteenth century.

Auteur
Isabelle Duyvesteyn is Professor of International Studies/Global History at the Institute of History at Leiden University. Between 2012 and 2017 she held the Special Chair in Strategic Studies at the Political Science Institute of Leiden University. Between 2008 and 2012 she was a member of the national Advisory Council for International Affairs assigned to advise the Netherlands government on issues of peace and security and between 2012 and 2021, she was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Netherlands Defence Academy. Beatrice Heuser holds the Chair of International Relations at the University of Glasgow, seconded to the General Staff College of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg as section chief for Strategy. She has worked at NATO Headquarters as a Consultant. She has served on academic advisory boards of the Royal United Services Institute, the French Institute of International Affairs (IFRI), and the French government's strategic studies think tank IRSEM.

Texte du rabat
"With an international team of subject experts, Volume I offers a history of the practice of strategy from the beginning of recorded history, complemented by archaeology, to the late 18th century, throughout the world. This volume addresses how strategy was formulated and applied, and with what tools; Focusing on the period from 1800 to the present, Volume II showcases a diverse set of case studies to illustrate the practice of strategy in different places around the globe"--

Résumé
Volume I of The Cambridge History of Strategy offers a history of the practice of strategy from the beginning of recorded history, to the late eighteenth century, from all parts of the world. Drawing on material evidence covering two-and-a-half millennia, an international team of leading scholars in each subject examines how strategy was formulated and applied and with what tools, from ancient Greece and China to the Ottoman and Mughal Empires and the American Revolutionary War. They explore key themes from decision-makers and strategy-making processes, causes of wars and war aims, tools of strategy in war and peace, to configurations of armed forces and distinctive and shared ways of war across civilisations and periods. A comparative conclusion examines how the linking of political goals with military means took place in different parts of the world over the course of history, asking whether strategic practice has universal features.

Contenu
Introduction to volume I: the practice of strategy Isabelle Duyvesteyn and Beatrice Heuser; 1. China to 180 CE; Peter Lorge; 2. Teispid and Achaemenid Persia (c. 550330 BCE) John Hyland; 3. Ancient Greece: strategy of the city states (500400 BCE) Roel Konijnendijk; 4. Philip II and Alexander III and the Macedonian Empire Andrew Fear; 5. Ancient Rome before Augustus (75327 BCE) Louis Rawlings; 6. China 1801127 CE David Graff; 7. Ancient Rome: principate and dominate (27 BCE630 AD) Michael Whitby; 8. The Gupta Empire (400500 CE) Kaushik Roy; 9. The Sassanian Empire's strategies Katarzyna Maksymiuk; 10. The Rashidun (632661), Umayyad (661750) and Abbasid (7501258) Caliphates Mehdi Kurgan Kader; 11. Byzantine strategy (6301204 CE) Georgios Chatzelis; 12. Strategies in the wars of western Europe, 476c. 1000 John France; 13. The later Middle Ages Sophie Therese Ambler; 14. Chinggis Khan and the Mongol Empire 12061368 CE Timothy May; 15. Hindu and Buddhist polities of pre/early-modern mainland southeast Asia (11001800) Tassapa Umavijani; 16. Pre-Columbian Native American wars Patricia M. Lambert; 17. Ottoman expansionism 13001823 Mesut Uyar; 18. Strategy in the wars of pre-colonial Sub-Saharan Africa Giacomo Macola and John Burton Kegel; 19. Strategy/ies of the Mughal Empire Pratyay Nath; 20. China 13681911 Kenneth Swope; 21. Early modern Europe: the Habsburgs and their enemies, 15191659 David Parrott; 22. Naval strategies Andri van Vliet; 23. The strategy of Louis XIV Jamel Ostwald; 24. Hohenzollern strategy under Frederick II Adam Storring; 25. American warfare in the eighteenth century Stephen Conway; Overview Beatrice Heuser and Isabelle Duyvestey.