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Cover 1 Half-title 3 Title 5 Copyright 6 Contents 7 Abbreviations 8 Preface 10 Introduction 11 1 How to win 17 THE ART OF WINNING 20 ENDS, WAYS, AND MEANS 24 2 Stove-piped strategy 30 CONTINENTAL STRATEGY 31 MARITIME STRATEGY 35 AIR POWER THEORY 36 NUCLEAR THEORY 38 GUERILLA WARFARE 40 TERRORISM 41 STRATEGIC GENIUS: SUN-TZU, CLAUSEWITZ, AND MACHIAVELLI 43 INTEGRATED STRATEGY 47 3 Traditional warfighting concepts and practices 50 COMPELLENCE AND COERCION 51 THE DECISIVE BATTLE 52 THE KNOCK-OUT BLOW 57 SEIZE AND HOLD GROUND 65 UNCONDITIONAL VICTORY? 72 DETERRENCE AND RISK 73 CENTRE OF GRAVITY 80 4 Manoeuvre and the application of force 85 FIREPOWER AND MANOEUVRE IN THREE DIMENSIONS 86 REDEFINING MASS 95 OFFENCE AND DEFENCE 96 THE SEARCH FOR DISCONTINUITIES 103 THE LAW OF ARMED CONFLICT 110 MORALITY AS STRATEGY 114 5 Shaping the strategic environment 117 SHAPE-DETER-RESPOND 117 SPHERES OF INFLUENCE 125 BALANCE OF POWER 128 KNOW THE ENEMY 132 IDEAS AND REALITY: THE FORCE STRUCTURE 135 MOTIVE, INTENT, AND CAPABILITIES 144 6 Strategic paralysis 150 TEMPO AND STRATEGIC PARALYSIS 152 FORM AS STRATEGIC PARALYSIS 155 PURPOSE AS STRATEGIC PARALYSIS 158 THE EVOLUTION OF STRATEGIC PARALYSIS 161
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Alan Stephens and Nicola Baker
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Social Science, Warfare & Defence, Social_sciences