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Successful Strategies Triumphing in War and Peace from Antiquity to the Present Successful Strategies is a fascinating new study of the key factors that have contributed to the development and execution of successful strategies throughouthistory.Withateamofleadinghistorians,WilliamsonMurray and Richard Hart Sinnreich examine how, and to what effect, states, individuals, and military organizations have found a solution to complex and seemingly insoluble strategic problems to reach success. Bringing together grand, political and military strategy, the book features thirteen essayseachofwhichexploresauniquecaseoraspectofstrategy.Thefocus ranges from individuals such as Themistocles, Bismarck, and Roosevelt to organizations and bureaucratic responses. Whether discussing grand strategy in peacetime or that of war or politics, these case studies are unified by their common goal of identifying in each case the key factors that contributed to success as well as providing insights essential to any understandingofthestrategicchallengesofthefuture. williamson murray is Adjunct Professor at the US Marine Corps UniversityandEmeritusProfessoratTheOhioStateUniversity. richard hart sinnreich is President of Carrick Communications, Inc. Successful Strategies Triumphing in War and Peace from Antiquity to the Present Edited by Williamson Murray and Richard Hart Sinnreich UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learningandresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107633599 ©WilliamsonMurrayandRichardHartSinnreich2014 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2014 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyClays,StIvesplc AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloguinginPublicationdata Successfulstrategies:triumphinginwarandpeacefromantiquitytothepresent/ editedbyWilliamsonMurrayandRichardHartSinnreich. pages cm Includesbibliographicalreferences. ISBN978-1-107-63359-9(Paperback)–ISBN978-1-107-06273-3(Hardback) 1. Strategy–History. 2. Strategy–Casestudies. 3. Militaryhistory. 4. War–History. 5. Peace–History. I. Murray,Williamson. II. Sinnreich, RichardHart. U162.S8722014 355.02–dc23 2013040414 ISBN978-1-107-06273-3Hardback ISBN978-1-107-63359-9Paperback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication, anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. To Lee Murray and Carol Sinnreich, whose patience with two old troglodytes knows no bounds Contents List of tables and map page ix List of contributors x Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 williamson murray 1 The strategic thought ofThemistocles 17 victor davis hanson 2 The grandstrategyofthe Roman Empire 38 james lacey 3 Giraldus Cambrensis, Edward I, and the conquest ofWales 65 clifford j. rogers 4 Creating the British way of war: English strategyin the War ofthe Spanish Succession 100 jamel ostwald 5 Failed, broken, or galvanized? Prussia and 1806 130 dennis showalter 6 Victory by trial and error: Britain’s struggle against Napoleon 155 richard hart sinnreich 7 The strategyofLincoln and Grant 189 wayne hsieh 8 Bismarckian strategic policy, 1871–1890 214 marcus jones 9 Dowdingand the British strategy of air defense 1936–1940 241 colin gray vii viii Contents 10 US navalstrategyand Japan 280 williamson murray 11 US grandstrategyin the Second World War 314 peter r. mansoor 12 American grand strategy and the unfolding ofthe Cold War 1945–1961 353 bradford a. lee 13 The Reagan administration’s strategy toward the SovietUnion 403 thomas g. mahnken Afterword 432 richard hart sinnreich Index 448
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