Military Thought

Author : Christopher C. Rand
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438465173
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Military Thought in Early China written by Christopher C. Rand and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a systematic and comprehensive survey of writings on military philosophy in early China. This study of the philosophy of war in early China examines the recurring debate, from antiquity through the Western Han period (202 BCE–8 CE), about how to achieve a proper balance between martial (wu) force and civil (wen) governance in the pursuit of a peaceful state. Rather than focusing solely on Sunzi’s Art of War and other military treatises from the Warring States era (ca. 475–221 BCE), Christopher C. Rand analyzes the evolution of this debate by examining a broad corpus of early Han and pre-Han texts, including works uncovered in archeological excavations during recent decades. What emerges is a framework for understanding early China’s military philosophy as an ongoing negotiation between three major alternatives: militarism, compartmentalism, and syncretism. Military Thought in Early China offers a look into China’s historical experience with a perennial issue that is not only of continuing relevance to modern-day China but also pertinent to other world states seeking to sustain strong and harmonious societies. “With its close engagement with and nuanced interpretation of a truly impressive range of sources, this book illuminates a field that gets too little serious attention.” — Charles Sanft, author of Communication and Cooperation in Early Imperial China: Publicizing the Qin Dynasty

Author : Colmar Goltz (Freiherr von der)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Conduct of War written by Colmar Goltz (Freiherr von der) and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Principles and rules that guide the conduct of warfare.

Author : Kaushik Roy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000210790
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Military Thought of Asia written by Kaushik Roy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military Thought of Asia challenges the assertion that the generation of rational secular ideas about the conduct of warfare is the preserve of the West, by analysing the history of ideas of warfare in Asia from the ancient period to the present. The volume takes a transcontinental and comparative approach to provide a broad overview of the evolution of military thought in Asia. The military traditions and theories which have emerged in different parts of Eurasia throughout history are products of geopolitics and unique to the different regions. The book considers the systematic and tight representation of ideas by famous figures including Kautlya and Sun Tzu. At the same time, it also highlights publications on military affairs by small men like mid-ranking officers and scattered ideas regarding the origin, nature and societal impact of organised violence present in miscellaneous sources like coins, inscriptions, paintings and fictional literature. In so doing, the book fills a historiographical gap in scholarship on military thought, which marginalises Asia to the part of cameo, and historicises the evolution of theory and the praxis of warfare. The volume shows that the ‘East’ has a long unbroken tradition of conceptualising war and its place in society from the Classical Era to the Information Age. It is essential reading for those interested in the evolution of military thought throughout history, particularly in Asia.

Author : Edward Mead Earle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Makers of Modern Strategy written by Edward Mead Earle and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brian Holden Reid
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803239272
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in British Military Thought written by Brian Holden Reid and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bogens tema er britisk militærhistorie personificeret ved mellemkrigstidens to store militære tænkere J.F.C.Fuller og B.H.Liddell Hart. Antologien indeholder 11 essay's. Af disse er de fem alene helliget Fuller, der spænder fra hans bidrag til teorien om mekaniseret krigsførelse til hans vision om et særligt operativt niveau (Operational level of war). Kun en enkelt essay vedrører Liddell Hart og desuden T.E.Lawrence. De resterende fem essay's indeholder en sammenlignede analyse af Fuller's og Liddell Hart's tilgang til samme emner - spændende fra deres holdning til facisme til deres behandling af antikkens krigsførelse og den amerikanske borgerkrig...Bogen indeholder tillige en særlig bibliografi over de vigtigste værker af Fuller og Liddell Hart.

Author : Azar Gat
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198202462
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Development of Military Thought written by Azar Gat and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this scholarly and original study of military thought during the nineteenth century Azar Gat continues and expands the themes he explored in his previous book, The Origins of Military Thought from the Enlightenment to Clausewitz (Oxford Historical Monographs, 1989). The present volume spans the period from the aftermath of the Napoleonic era to the outbreak of the First World War. Encompassing Prussia/Germany, France, Great Britain, the United States of America and the Marxist theory later to gain sway in Russia, The Development of Military Thought focuses on the wider conceptions of war, strategy, and military theory which dominated the West in this period. Dr. Gat's penetrating analysis uncovers the intellectual assumptions and picture of the past which underlay military policy and practice.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Military Thought written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Azar Gat
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199247622
Total Pages : 916 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Military Thought written by Azar Gat and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the ideas of Clausewitz to contemporary doctrines of containment and cold war, this is a definitive history of modern military thought. A one-volume collection of Azar Gat's acclaimed trilogy, it traces the quest for a general theory of war from its origins in the Enlightenment.Beginning with a provocative critique of Clausewitz's classic work On War, the author unravels the endemic difficulties in Clausewitz's work that have baffled scholars for so long, clearly explaining the development of his ideas against the background of the Napoleonic revolution in war and theRomantic critique of the Enlightenment. He continues the story through the strategic ideas of the Prussian-German military school during the nineteenth century, the factors that shaped the 'cult of the offensive' in the French Army before the First World War, and the competing doctrines whichdominated naval warfare during the ages of sail and steam. In the final part of the trilogy, he shows how theories of mechanized war emerged throughout the industrial world in the first decades of the twentieth century and explains why their leading exponents were associated with fascism.Drastically re-evaluating B.H. Liddell Hart's contribution to strategic theory, the author argues that in the wake of the trauma of the First World War, and in response to the Axis challenge, Liddell Hart developed the doctrine of containment and cold war long before the advent of nuclear weapons.He reveals Liddell Hart as a pioneer of the modern western liberal way in warfare which is still with us today.

Author : Avi Kober
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004306862
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practical Soldiers: Israel’s Military Thought and Its Formative Factors written by Avi Kober and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers a framework for the analysis of formative factors in military thought: an account of the Israel Defense Force’s state of intellectualism and modernity; and an analysis of the realist and non-realist factors that have shaped Israeli military thought.

Author : Russell F. Weigley
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786258226
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Towards An American Army written by Russell F. Weigley and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-27 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a history of controversies that have surrounded the growth of the United States Army, controversies that have flared over the inextricably related questions of how to attain maximum military security for the United States and how to form an army that will be appropriate to and not subversive of American democratic society. This book offers some measure of information on the attitudes and thought processes that have been traditional and habitual among American professional soldiers. Especially, it reveals something of their customary approach to issues of military policy where such issues merge with those of national policy in general. And to know something about the customary approach of military men to the broadest issues of military and national policy is also of manifest value to the present.