This book uses history in two ways: as the source of ideas about strategy and as examples to illustrate the elements by showing their application to specific campaigns and their utility in understanding the role of strategy in military operations.
Preface Introduction Operations Within a Base Area The English Colonists' Warfare against the Native Americans The United States in the Second Seminole War The United States in the Great Sioux War Operations from a remote Base Area The Commerce-Raiding War in the Atlantic, 1940-1945 Air Warfare in Northwestern Europe 1940-1945 The Allied Western Europe Campaign 1944-1945 The United States in the Pacific in World War II The Strategy of the Korean War The Persian Gulf Conflict of 1990-1991 Operations with a Mixture of Base Area Access The United States in Vietnam Some Unifying Elements Political Aspects The Principles of War and Some Related Ideas Some Factors Affecting Strategic Choice and Outcomes Appendix: Weapons and Strategy in the Twentieth Century
ARCHER JONES is Professor Emeritus of History and a former dean at North Dakota State University. He is the author of Confederate Strategy from Shiloh to Vicksburg (1961), The Art of War in the Western World (1987), and Civil War Command and Strategy (1992) and joint author of Politics of Command, Factions and Ideas in Confederate Strategy (1973), How the North Won: A Military History of the Civil War (1983), and Why the South Lost the Civil War (1986). He has served as Morrison Professor of History at the U. S. Army Command and General Staff College, member of the Department of the Army Historical Advisory Committee, and trustee of the American Military Institute.
"Not only is Elements of Military Strategy widely and deeply
researched, but it is also very well written. It is a challenging
approach to the subject and contains many original and, on the
whole, convincing ideas that should stimulate the mind of any
thinking student of military history and strategy."-Warren W.
Hassler, Jr. Professor Emeritus of History, Pennsylvania State
University author of With Shield and Sword: American Military
Affairs from Colonial Times to the Present
"This book is a good 'read' because of its originality of
conceptualization, arresting statistics, and very good expositions
of the constants of strategy, tactical systems and weaponry, and
the strategy-tactics-armament ensemble."-Lee Kennett, former
Lindbergh professor National Air and Space Museum author of The
First Air War and A History of Strategic Bombing
"Jones' work will be of interest to all students of strategy in
modern history. His greatest contribution is that he places
logistics solidly in the front and center of the study of warfare
and strategy, giving his vision of the history of war a depth and
nunace rarely found....[A] significant and highly readable work
from one of America's leading military historians."-Military and
Naval History Journal
?Jones' work will be of interest to all students of strategy in
modern history. His greatest contribution is that he places
logistics solidly in the front and center of the study of warfare
and strategy, giving his vision of the history of war a depth and
nunace rarely found....[A] significant and highly readable work
from one of America's leading military historians.?-Military and
Naval History Journal
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