The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy

✍ Scribed by Russell F. Weigley

Publisher: Indiana University Press
Year: 1977
Tongue: English
Leaves: 606
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

..". a strong and stimulating book. It has no rival in either scope or quality. For libraries, history buffs, and armchair warriors, it is a must. For political science students, career diplomats, and officers in the armed services, its reading should be required." --History

"A particularly timely account." --Kansas City Times

"It reads easily but is not a popularized history... nor does the book become a history of battles.... Weigley's analyses and interpretations are searching, competent, and useful." --Perspective

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
Part One: Waging War with Limited Resources, 1775-1815
1. A Strategy of Attrition: George Washington
2. A Strategy of Partisan War: Nathanael Greene
3. The Federalists and the Jeffersonians
Part Two: Young America as a Military Power, 1815-1890
4. The Age of Winfield Scott
5. The Founding of American Strategic Studies: Dennis Hart Mahan and Henry Wager Halleck
6. Napoleonic Strategy: R. E. Lee and the Confederacy
7. A Strategy of Annihilation: U. S. Grant and the Union
8. Annihilation of a People: The Indian Fighters
Part Three: Introduction to World Power; 1890-1941
9. A Strategy of Sea Power and Empire: Stephen B. Luce and Alfred Thayer Mahan
10. Strategy and the Great War of
11. A Strategy of Air Power: Billy Mitchell
12. A Strategy for Pacific Ocean War: Naval Strategists of the 1920s and 1930s
Part Four: American Strategy in Global Triumph, 1941-1945
13. The Strategic Tradition of A. T. Mahan: Strategists of the Pacific War
14. The Strategic Tradition of U. S. Grant: Strategists of the European War
Part Five: American Strategy in Perplexity, 1945-
15. The Atomic Revolution
16. Old Strategies Revisited: Douglas MacArthur and George C. Marshall in the Korean War
17. Strategies of Deterrence and of Action: The Strategy Intellectuals
18. Strategies of Action Attempted: To the Vietnam War
Notes
Select Bibliography of American Writings on Military Strategy, Theoretical and Historical
Index
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