Strategic History Books

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31. Clausewitz and America

    Strategic Thought and Practice from Vietnam to Iraq

    By Stuart Kinross

    Series: Strategy and History

    This book demonstrates how Clausewitzian thought influenced American strategic thinking between the Vietnam War and the current conflict in Iraq. Carl von Clausewitz's thought played a part in the process of military reform and the transition in US policy that took place after the Vietnam War. By...

    Published December 20th 2009 by Routledge
32. The Baltic Question during the Cold War

    Edited by John Hiden, Vahur Made, David J. Smith

    Series: Cold War History

    This edited volume presents a comprehensive analysis of the ‘Baltic question’, which arose within the context of the Cold War, and which has previously received little attention. This volume brings together a group of international specialists on the international history of northern Europe. It...

    Published November 26th 2009 by Routledge
33. European Integration and the Cold War

    Ostpolitik-Westpolitik, 1965-1973

    Edited by N. Piers Ludlow

    Series: Cold War History

    This edited volume uses newly released archival material to show linkages between the development of the European Union and the Cold War. Containing essays by well-known Cold War scholars such as Jussi Hanhimaki, Wilfried Loth and Piers Ludlow, the book looks at: France, where neither de Gaulle...

    Published November 26th 2009 by Routledge
34. The Guy Liddell Diaries, Volume I: 1939-1942

    MI5's Director of Counter-Espionage in World War II

    By Nigel West

    This is the first volume of Nigel West's acclaimed presentation of these fascinating diaries from the heart of Britain's Second World War intelligence operations. 'No intelligence buff can be without this volume and anyone interested in British twentieth century history needs it too....

    Published September 20th 2009 by Routledge
35. The Guy Liddell Diaries Vol.II: 1942-1945

    MI5's Director of Counter-Espionage in World War II

    Edited by Nigel West

    WALLFLOWERS is the codename given to one of the Security Service’s most treasured possessions, the daily journal dictated from August 1939 to June 1945 by MI5’s Director of Counter-Espionage, Guy Liddell, to his secretary, Margo Huggins. The document was considered so highly classified that it was...

    Published September 20th 2009 by Routledge
36. Israel's Wars of Attrition

    Attrition Challenges to Democratic States

    By Avi Kober

    Series: Middle Eastern Military Studies

    This book analyzes the way Israel has coped with nine wars of attrition from the 1950s to the recent Second Lebanon War (2006), questioning the belief that Western democracy cannot sustain prolonged wars of attrition. Challenging Israel with attrition has been compatible with the 'Arab way of war',...

    Published August 2nd 2009 by Routledge
37. Europe and the End of the Cold War

    A Reappraisal

    Edited by Frederic Bozo, Marie-Pierre Rey, N. Piers Ludlow, Leopoldo Nuti

    Series: Cold War History

    This book seeks to reassess the role of Europe in the end of the Cold War and the process of German unification. Much of the existing literature on the end of the Cold War has focused primarily on the role of the superpowers and on that of the US in particular. This edited volume seeks to re-direct...

    Published July 23rd 2009 by Routledge
38. Geopolitics and the Great Powers in the 21st Century

    Multipolarity and the Revolution in Strategic Perspective

    By C. Dale Walton

    Series: Geopolitical Theory

    This book argues that in the twenty-first century Eastern Eurasia will replace Europe as the theatre of decision in international affairs, and that this new geographic and cultural context will have a strong influence on the future of world affairs. For half a millennium, the great powers have...

    Published June 25th 2009 by Routledge
39. The German 1918 Offensives

    A Case Study in The Operational Level of War

    By David T. Zabecki

    Series: Strategy and History

    This is the first study of the Ludendorff Offensives of 1918 based extensively on key German records presumed to be lost forever after Potsdam was bombed in 1944. In 1997, David T. Zabecki discovered translated copies of these files in a collection of old instructional material at the U.S. Army...

    Published June 25th 2009 by Routledge
40. Israel's Strategic Agenda

    Edited by Efraim Inbar

    Divided into two clear parts, the first part of this book examines political and economic factors in the global strategic environment including, the approach of US and EU foreign policies towards Israel, global trends in the field of defence industries and the energy sector and their implications...

    Published March 10th 2009 by Routledge